When you are a social worker in a small town, in a small state, dual relationships are bound to come up. How do you best manage these? When do you avoid them? How do you provide necessary care?

Ethics are rather easy when there is only one standard to consider. Ethical dilemmas, when more than one standard is in conflict with another, is where supervision &/or peer consulation comes in.

During this hour, Jacob Stone will give a mini-presentation on dual relationships then participants will be given ethical dilemma case scenarios to process in small groups. The groups will then come back to the main zoom room to report their decision making processes.

Being an anti-oppressive social worker is not just a sexy term to say. It is a social worker making a conscious and reflexive choice to engage in liberatory and emancipatory practice. It is who you are in and outside of practice. But what does this really mean? This session will provide participants with a foundation of what it means to be anti-oppressive in micro and macro social work practice. Principles of anti-oppressive practice will be provided, along with common language and terminology associated with AOP. Participants will be provided with how to incorporate AOP in micro and macro practice, using examples/scenarios across various practice areas including direct service, clinical, advocacy, and activism.

October 4-5, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
14 CEs, including 9 ethics CEs. Day 1 focuses on the dynamics of group supervision, while Day 2 explores the best practices in independent supervision.
Registration deadline: Oct. 2.

Day 1: Supervision: Crafting Successful Group Supervision (7 CE Hours, including 2 ethics CEs). This may be purchased as a single-day training.

Learning objectives:

• Review the impact of the regulations and ethical implications for consideration;
• Review best practices for contracting, record-keeping, and regulatory compliance;
• Examine common challenges of group supervision;
• Review Group Supervision models, including Interactional, Competency-Based, Task and Reflective methodologies of practice;
• Understand the unique needs and challenges of supervising a group; and
• Learn models, tools, and best practices for effective group supervision.

Laura Burney Nissen, Ph.D.,CADC III

This program has been approved for 3.0 Continuing Education hours for licensure. NASW NH Authorization Number 4264.

This workshop will help participants acquire practical skills to future-proof their social work practice. This includes scanning and sensemaking of the world around us, as well as thinking through “the inner work of foresight” regarding personal and professional dimensions of dealing with constant change all around us. Participants will leave with a variety of imaginative and real-world tools – and very specific takeaways to begin exploring the future of their focus area. Additional information will be provided for those that wish to continue learning more about foresight and get involved with the “Social Work Futures Lab 2.0” about to open up nationally as a learning and practice community.

Burnout can be prevented. Often, our caregiving, fixing, helping, and analyzing parts are driving the bus. These parts have good intentions and may be the ones who have run a lot of your life in order to protect you in some way. They work hard to keep you safe and connected to your family and friends. They are tired.In this advanced IFS workshop, you will identify and get to know that parts of you who may be leading to burnout, the parts of you who think they need to do your job. You will get to know the parts who are triggered by your clients and make work a little harder, stressful, and chaotic. When you unblend from them and you begin to be the leader in your system, your work and your clients change. Identifying your own parts first so then you, the Authentic you, can clearly see your clients' parts and can begin to work in a healing flow that feels better for you both.