ABSTRACT
This chapter is born out of our experience as colleagues attempting to work together across cultures on the subject of culture and ethnicity. We hope that our experience informs the working relationship between professionals and clients, but our main intention in this chapter is to address issues raised in peer-professional working partnerships. We have chosen to speak with our personal voices, sometimes separately and sometimes together, in the hope that this will convey what we think is the value of our experience. The liberty has also been taken of addressing the reader directly from time to time. It is our belief that directness is often an important part of crossing the barriers in transcultural working. Our hindsight learning is boxed up here in the form of recommendations for practice.
