ABSTRACT
Facilitating an after-school multicultural humanistic psychology program for culturally diverse groups of college volunteers and emerging children can be a delicate process. This chapter explores how James D. Smrtic created Kidz n’ Coaches as a leaderless group, where college volunteers act as facilitators of prosocial group functions designed to help the self-actualization processes of diverse groups of children. The essential components of leadership in the program are explored through the roles of program director, Coach, and Head Coach. These leadership roles represent what it means to be a multicultural humanistic facilitator of an after-school program. The author argues that the role of a facilitator is integral to achieve self-actualization, especially for culturally diverse groups, where cultural meanings and paradigms differ from the facilitators’ orientations.
