CE Workshop with Lisa Kays, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW
In-Person at Keegan Theater

This course will review the NASW Code of Ethics language updates in a number of areas, and particularly those relating to Cultural Competence and Social Diversity and Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibility to the Broader Society, among others. Improv, with its roots in the social work profession and settlement houses as a tool for communication across language and cultural barriers, is a natural vehicle to experientially explore and enhance skills related to ethical decision-making, particularly those around managing anxiety that emerges when confronted with ethical dilemmas, and, in particular, interpersonal and macro-level experiences with race, oppression and discrimination. Working from and processing case material provided by course participants about ethical dilemmas they have faced in these areas, the course will intersperse opportunities for clinical processing of how lessons and games relate to and impact our work where it intersects with racial harm, microaggressions, and systemic oppression and racism.