Door, Wall, Window, Sky: Finding our Ground as Mixed/Multiracial Clinicians

Live Interactive Webinar

Instructor: EJ Seibert, LICSW and Nathalie Rodríguez, LICSW

Level: Intermediate

CEs: 3

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This facilitated dialogue will be a place where clinicians with mixed (biracial/multiracial) identities come together to discuss the specific joys and complexities of what our backgrounds bring to our work. What are the questions we run up against in our practices? What strategies have we found to support clients and ourselves in these areas? What therapeutic models are most helpful to draw from? How do we understand and experience our bodies/nervous systems within this conversation? How do our other intersecting identities benefit, hinder, inspire, guide and impact us?

We will utilize case study, large group discussion, small group discussion, dyad work and journaling time to explore together. Metaphor will help us to frame the conversation: when is our experience a door, a wall, a window, a sky (a passage, a barrier, an in-between, a liberation)? When is it all of the above? What centers/grounds us in the multiple truths of who we are and what that means in clinical contexts? What do we envision for the future of social work as a discipline, based on the wisdom we hold?

This workshop will be facilitated from within a collective liberation framework with a focus on intersectional change processes. We will discuss the way in which the nuance of mixed-race identities offers wisdom to the discipline as a whole, holding ourselves and others accountable. The wisdom and beauty of Indigenous knowledges will be centered.