The Practical Skills Model of Multicultural Engagement represents an attempt to create a means for moving beyond the development of knowledge and awareness into the development of skills that will assist practitioners to practice in a culturally competent manner. The model builds on basic counseling skills, combining them with specific approaches to providing culturally competent services. When successfully applied, these basic skills, empathic communication, relationship building, diunital reasoning, and customs and practices, are welded into a unified approach using the skill of model management, an integration of metacognition and error management learning techniques. Rather than prescribing an approach to culturally competent practice, the Practical Skills Model provides practitioners with a starting point for developing their ability to practice in a culturally competent manner. (Contains 1 figure.)