Enabling Equity Through Exploring Power and Privilege
Explore the dynamics of power and privilege in a safe, reflective and collaborative space. Reflect on your experience of disadvantage, discrimination and privilege.
Description
Aim
Explore the dynamics of power and privilege in a strengths based way. This workshop provides a safe, reflective and collaborative space to reflect on your experience of disadvantage, discrimination and privilege. We all experience both sides and will develop our awareness of these positions of power. Examine your values and create a bespoke plan to help leverage your unique combination of advantages and disadvantages to create more equality in your practice.
Overview and Learning Intentions
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Understand the ways in which power and privilege create the social structure of our society, and where this has come from
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Explore our individual experiences of oppression, discrimination and privilege
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Create our own privilege wheels and explore these together in open and safe discussions
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Examine our values and how these shape our identity and how they can be used to inform how we respond to power and privilege
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Use our values and experiences of oppression and/or discrimination to develop greater equality in your practice
Let's Get Real
4. Working within communities
5. Challenging discrimination
7. Maintaining professional and personal development
Facilitated by Julie Thompson
BSW
Julie has worked in health for 20 years, firstly, in the intellectual disability sector and older persons health, then most recently youth mental health. In this work, Julie recognised the ways that different privileges or lack of, affected her clients care and service they received. Julie is deeply passionate about social justice and has spent decades in social justice activism. This workshop is the culmination of both aspects of her life.
Workshop Type: Intermediate | Workshop Level: Five | Catering: Refreshments provided
Terms and Conditions
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Cancellations made up to 10 working days before a workshop will incur a $39 service fee.
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Cancellations (or non-attendance) made 10 working days or less will not be refunded and the full workshop fee will be charged.
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No fee applies if you are able to find a replacement participant.
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MHERC reserves the right to cancel a workshop at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or insufficient registrations.
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Only one person may view a webinar session per registration.
Please read our full Terms and Conditions before registering.