European Journal of Science and Theology, February 2020, Vol.16, No.1, 165-176 _______________________________________________________________________ MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING WITH THE TECHNIQUE OF PARABLE A DIACOGNITIVE ANALYSIS Erni Maria Clartje Efruan 1 , Zummy Anselmus Dami 2* , David Samuel Latupeirissa 3 and Mesakh Abia Pello Dethan 4 1 Institut Injil Indonesia, Department of Theology, East Jawa, 65313, Indonesia 2 Universitas Persatuan Guru 1945 NTT, Faculty of Education, East Nusa Tenggara, 85119, Indonesia 3 STIBA Mentari Kupang, Department of English Literature, East Nusa Tenggara, 85143, Indonesia 4 Universitas Kristen Artha Wacana, Department of Theology, East Nusa Tenggara, 85228, Indonesia (Received 29 July 2019, revised 26 November 2019) Abstract The study aimed to increase cultural awareness through multicultural counselling services using the technique of parable. The parable used in the study was the parable of the Good Samaritan, while the method applied in the study was the diacognitive analysis method (dialogue, position, and cognition). Research results have shown that a counsellor who uses a parable technique can make a counselee have multicultural awareness. A counsellor must have data and information relating to the opposition of ethnicity and religiosity. A counsellor should have cultural considerations, cultural knowledge, cultural understanding and cultural competencies. Moreover, most importantly, the counsellor has the compassion to the counselee, because, through „compassion‟, there will be a shift from self-independent to self-interdependent, that is to „be there-for-others‟. Keywords: parable, Samaritan, analysis, multicultural, counselling 1. Introduction The concept of multiculturalism stands for two self-concepts, namely self- independent and self-interdependent [1]. The difference between two self- concepts affects the way a person sees himself. People who have self-independent prefer to be atomistic themselves. As autonomous/independent individuals, they can decide what is best for themselves. People who have self-independent frequently judge others, which are different, with their criteria in their possession. Different things are experienced by people who have self-interdependent. They have an understanding of the concept of self-contrary to those who have the first self-independent. For those people, actions to other people must be based on the context. Thus, people who have the second self-dependent tend to understand the * Corresponding author, e-mail: zummy.dami@upg45ntt.ac.id