Experience Day 2024

Mini Classes

• Experiential Therapy

  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

• Ecological Justice

  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.

• Weighing our Worth: An Introduction to weight stigma and weight inclusive practice

  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.

• Grief and Loss: A Promotion of the Right to Grieve

  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.

• Let’s Go Global.... Or Should We?

  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.