Showing events starting from February 1, 2022 up to February 28, 2022
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Sexual Grief and The Hero's Journey
February 18, 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Pain and memories from sexual grief ambush clients and make them feel as if they have been taken hostage. Every time the surge of emotions arrives on the scene, the hostage feels exposed and hopeless. Sexual grief is often confused with sexual trauma, and though they work in tandem, they are separate. Learn to distinguish between the story of sexual trauma and the effect of grief on those stories. The silences get broken and the hostage gets released.
The Hero's Journey will be used to show a systematic approach to breaking through the status quo of the dark night of the soul that sexual grief exposes. The self needs a base of empathy, empowerment and a strategy that also includes hostage negotiating techniques to face the non-linear aspect of sexual grief. Everyone has a warning label, the warning label portrays self-protection and what needs to be dealt with while in the depths of the cave.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Self Care for Social Workers (for MSW Students)
February 22, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Self-care is a professional and ethical obligation for social workers. What does it look like to engage in regular, intentional, effective self-care? In this 90-minute virtual workshop we will explore what self-care looks like in practice and share specific strategies to manage stress and improve well-being.
MSW students who attend this session may count this workshop as field hours with approval from their field instructor. If you are unable to attend these sessions there will be future workshops scheduled, dates tbd. For more information please contact the CAPS Embedded therapist Jamie Boschee, LLMSW at jboschee@umich.edu
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The Storytellers Series
February 22, 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
A three-part workshop series in creative storytelling.
All workshops will be virtual and offered free to students & community members:
Session One: February 22, 12 - 2 PM on Oral History & Performance Storytelling
Session Two: March 7, 12 - 2 PM on Digital Storytelling
Session Three: March 8, 12 - 2 PM Singer-Songwriter Storytelling
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Undoing Racism Workgroup
February 24, 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Undoing Racism is a community collective of students, staff, and faculty in the School of Social Work dedicated to fighting white supremacy at the individual, school, and structural levels.This workgroup was established in 2019 after students, staff, and faculty took part in the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond Undoing Racism© workshops. Since then, the Undoing Racism workgroup has been working to implement the People’s Institute anti-racist community organizing model – recognizing that community organizing within our school is critical to move toward an anti-racist and anti-oppressive program to bring along all members of the community.
The Undoing Racism workgroup also emphasizes the role that white members of our community must take on to dismantle and undo white supremacist structures that benefit and maintain power for white people. Our work has largely been focused on building collective community – a fundamental step in the People’s Institute organizing model. Our dialogue and strategic planning to advance towards an anti-racist and anti-oppressive program and school community must begin with building relationships and strengthening community bonds to engage in internal and external anti-racism work.
Meetings are held monthly on the last Thursday of the month from 12-2pm. All members of our school community are invited to attend.
Upcoming Meetings:
March 24, 2022
April 28, 2022
May 26, 2022
Contact: ssw.undoingracism@umich.edu
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For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
February 24, 2022 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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MSW Prospective Student Information Session
February 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
This online session will provide the opportunity to learn more about the University of Michigan School of Social Work MSW program. Topics covered will include: Online Program, On-Campus Program, Curriculum Options, Application Process, Financial Aid, and more!
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Motivational Interviewing: Beginning Skill Mastery
February 25, 2022 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
This instructional and skill-building workshop provides a basic introduction to the Motivational Interviewing approach first popularized by William Miller & Stephen Rollnick. Utilizing lecture, role-playing practice and group discussion, this course will lay a foundation for participants to begin to develop their clinical skills in helping people accomplish change in areas of difficult behavior, for which ambivalence is an expectation rather than an exception.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Spring break begins at noon
February 26, 2022
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For Admitted Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
February 28, 2022 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Congratulations! Newly admitted MSW Students can connect virtually with Current MSW students regarding the MSW program!
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? What is Ann Arbor like in the Winter? Join an MSW student as well as other admitted MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.