Experience Day 2023
We look forward to meeting you at Experience Day on March 31 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. MDT. Experience Day is a great opportunity to get to know the people who will support, encourage and inspire you on your social work career journey.
We look forward to meeting you at Experience Day on March 31 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. MDT. Experience Day is a great opportunity to get to know the people who will support, encourage and inspire you on your social work career journey.
We have a full lineup of engaging content that includes informative panels from faculty, alumni, and students, mini-classes, and opportunities to learn more about the GSSW program.
8:00 a.m. — Check-In & Breakfast
8:30 a.m. — GSSW Welcome with Chief of Staff and Associate Dean for Operations Hope Wisneski
8:40 a.m. — “Starting your GSSW Journey” with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Lisa Reyes Mason
9:00 a.m. — Faculty Panel moderated by Acting Dean Kimberly Bender
9:45 p.m. — 15 Minute Break
10:00 a.m. — Student Services Panel moderated by Associate Professor Leslie Hasche
10:45 a.m. — 15 Minute Break
11:00 a.m. — Admitted and deposited students attend Mini Classes in GSSW classrooms. Guests stay in the community room for a Q/A session with Chief of Staff and Associate Dean for Operations Hope Wisneski. Coffee will be served from DNVR Coffee CO for all guests.
12:00 p.m.— Lunch & Self-Guided Tour
Experiential Therapy can be a guided activity, a game, a mental puzzle to work out, time in nature, or a physical challenge. Through Experiential Therapy, the client often moves out of their comfort zone and into a place of new insights of self-discovery, confidence building, self-awareness, and new methods of how to cope with issues in their life.
Taught by Associate Professor Julie Laser-Maira
We often hear of environmental justice, but what is ecological justice? In this mini-course you will learn how you as a social worker will be activated into ensuring a healthy and flourishing future for people, all other species, and Earth.
Taught by Clinical Associate Professor Sarah Bexell.
This mini-class begins by introducing the concept of weight stigma and how body weight and appearance is a part of our intersectional identity (and a source of potential privilege or discrimination). Next, we examine how weight stigma infiltrates public health messaging and the potential harms of that stigma. We will briefly review some of the science that supports taking a weight-inclusive approach to health and mental health practice. We end the mini class discussing some brief recommendations for clinical practice.
Taught by Assistant Professor Erin Harrop.
This mini-class will help to define grief and explore how client systems and communities experience grief, not only as it relates to the loss of a loved one, but as it is universally experienced through nontraditional forms of loss. We will explore the spectrum of grief and how we as social workers can promote the human right to grieve as a promotion of our core social work values.
Taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Amity Good.
Join us for a discussion about the ethical considerations of international social work. This mini-class will be available for only the online attendees.
Taught by Professor of the Practice Ann Petrila.