About this event
We will elevate dialogue among peers, to speak openly and honestly, modelling disagreements around autism, race, neurodiversity, gender, sexuality, meritocracy and their intersections and potential conflicts.
In this age of communication meta-crisis and social fragmentation, struggles for identity assertion and the fights for justice intensifies. Reflected in the climate and increasingly warring nations; our humble planet appears to be spiralling out of control. As helpers and healers, we are charged with difficult and complex questions of change, as much as our clients and colleagues are at the micro level, forcing us to examine and reveal deeply held, and often unconscious belief systems.
This dismantling needs to be done safely, within a framework of compassionate self-enquiry, framed by three powerful approaches: The Four-Stage Model of Sustained Dialogue, Intergroup Dialogue and Bohm Dialogue.
Elements:
- Multi-partiality and intersectionality.
- Your own story of transformation.
- Ethnography, epistemology and social work; putting it all together and politicising our positions in the community.
- The partnership and social work context.
- Autism, neurodiversity, self, race, sexuality, diasability, gender and power – what do all these really mean to you and how do they influence your practice?
- Where can we generate insight, other than supervision groups and classrooms?
- What can we do to remain true to ourselves as agents of change?
- Learn about further training opportunities.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Gain understanding of powerful dialogue models and their application and learning toward advancing and deepening personal and intra-professional goals around justice, critical thinking and acting as agents of change. Aquire tools to deepen understanding around these identities in ways that forward treatment, self-awareness, action and change.
- Practice and explore our agency as caring professionals and students; explore our identities and learn how the professional, social and personal identities intersect and how to support client goals within new frameworks of radical care.
- Explore personal and professional narratives in support of inter and intra disciplinary change.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- The training is designed for healing arts professionals, including those in counselling, psychotherapy, coaching, mental health and social work.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Participants will learn and practice tools to deepen their understanding of themselves and of others, especially with regard to human diversity. Apply tools of self-reflection to increase their empathy and ability to hold multiple perspectives practice. The session will promote deep collective inquiry, perspective taking and power sharing in ways that will lead to increased effective action towards the dismantling of unconscious belief systems on the individual, interpersonal, social and community levels. Empower clients and patients with increased understanding and effectiveness to achieve their healing goals.
RECORDING
This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Francine Ortega, LCSW (she/hers/ella; Tongva Land)
A licensed clinical social worker with a passion for social justice. She is a bilingual Latina raised in Southern California who is committed to serving the Latinx community. For the past 20+ years, Francine has worked in a variety of mental health settings with children, youth and families, including therapeutic nursery school, school-based counseling, outpatient community mental health, and early childhood mental health consultation. She sees her mental health work with clients and communities as avenues for both healing and empowerment. For Francine, facilitating intergroup dialogue is an exciting extension of her clinical work, as it seeks to promote individual and system growth and change using the powerful tools of communication, perspective taking, empathy and reflection.
Abigayel Bryce, LMSW, (she/they)
A certified Intergroup Dialogue facilitator, Abi has been facilitating dialogue in the University of Michigan’s model for three years with Universal Human Rights Initiative (California) and recently earned her Masters in Social Work in the US, during which time she worked with adolescents and adults in school and outpatient mental health settings. She enjoys learning about critical social issues, and about how to build supportive social infrastructure.
Jonathan Drury
Dialogue facilitator, consultant, trainer and therapeutic coach specialising in autism, neurodiversity and regenerative approaches to combat systemic trauma. Jonny has a broad background informing his practice including extensive formal training (including Intergroup Dialogue), eastern disciplines, western philosophy and socially engaged art education. He is the co-founder of Dialogica and creator of Mindfulness for Autism® and the Autism Dialogue Approach®.
Website | www.uhri.ngo
Additional Resources | www.uhri.ngo/facilitated-intergroup-dialogue
