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It is encouraged to listen to the 4 minute video related to the shifting from problem to solution-focused mindset. It would be helpful for increasing your sensory awareness for our exploratory webinar. It is available for viewing here: https://youtu.be/hSiTZw-7oRA

Please listen to this song. Note your thoughts and feelings prior to listening and then after listening. They’ll be an opportunity to share your experience in the chat if you choose to do so.

This webinar focuses on a caring justice approach to practice. Social workers will learn how to reframe problem-based perspectives to solution-focused perspectives. The webinar will explore translating compassionate care into compassionate action developing and refining solution-focused grassroots and professional interventions for individuals, families, communities, and the world.Examples will be used in how to transform violence, racism and sexism and other intersectional oppressions that social workers have most often grappled with both personally and professionally at the micro, mezzo, and macrolevels, including personal internalized oppression. Social workers will learn integrate practical knowledge, wisdom, historical truths, tools and tips to spark the ‘biggest version of themselves’ and to ‘become the change they wish to see in the world’ (an integrated whole and powerful compassionate self).Objectives:

• Articulate the essential knowledge (theory, ethics, law, science, wisdom, and types of love and service (self, others, universal) that informs a solution focused approach and a caring justice perspective.
• Demonstrate how to identity and reframe problem-based perspective/mindset to solution-focused perspective/mindset using practical tools introduced in the webinar.
• Apply how to shift from a problem to solution focused approach to addressing historical social work issues that include intersectional personal and structural trauma, oppression, health, and criminal justice (race, gender, class, intersectionality, resilience, and health and well-being among individuals, families, and/or communities and apply it to practice.
• Recognize and compassionately analyze and critique the strengths and limitations of existing perspectives, professional practices, and assessment and intervention programs and strategies that are designed to promote and sustain social justice, human rights, and empowerment with suggestions for improvement where needed.