Live Professional Workshop: Speak, Move, Change: Decolonizing Your Practice, Restoring Your Power

November 15, 2024

This presentation will be an ONLINE VIRTUAL LIVE broadcast on November 15, 2024, 2024, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET. While this activity is LIVE and can only be viewed during the time specified, the evaluation will be available online until December 13, 2024. Go to the Register tab above to learn how to participate for continuing education credit, watch the broadcast and download the slides.

This course is approved for 1.0 Anti-Oppressive Social Work Credit.

The views and opinions expressed by this presenter in this lecture are their own, and do not represent the views of Sheppard Pratt.

In "Speak, Move, Change: Decolonizing Your Practice, Restoring Your Power," we will address how entrenched systems of racism and colonialism manifest in social work practice, particularly through language and communication. Social workers are often limited by institutionalized frameworks that perpetuate oppression, creating a clinical problem where bias and inequity undermine care. These issues persist because of a lack of critical reflection on how language, thought patterns, and communication styles reinforce oppressive systems. In this workshop, participants will explore how decolonizing their language and practice can restore their power to serve clients more equitably. Attendees will be introduced to strategies and tools to critically examine their communication, develop anti-racist practices, and gain skills to transform their work environments and client interactions.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for psychologists, social workers, counselors and other mental health professionals. 

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, attendees will be able to:

  1. Identify oppressive communication patterns rooted in white supremacy that negatively impact social work practice and client relationships.
  2. Discuss how personal and institutional language choices perpetuate racism and colonialism within clinical and professional interactions.
  3. Apply strategies for decolonizing communication, fostering anti-racist and culturally humble approaches in social work practice.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
09/16/2024
Course expires: 
12/13/2024
Event starts: 
11/15/2024 - 1:00pm EST
Event ends: 
11/15/2024 - 2:00pm EST

There is no commercial support for this activity.

About the speaker

Shawnee Benton Gibson, LMSW/FDLC, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spirit of A Woman (SOW) Leadership Development Institute. SOW was established in 2002 to educate, elevate, and effect positive and sustainable transformation for individuals, groups, families, communities and leaders within institutions. Under Benton Gibson’s leadership and vision, SOW offers innovative coaching, counseling and training experiences to those who are seeking to expand their power, purpose, and impact in the world.

Benton Gibson is a licensed practitioner with over 31 years of professional experience. She is also the Co-Founder of the ARIAH Foundation (The Advancement of Reproductive Innovation Through Artistry & Healing) which was created in memory of her eldest daughter, Shamony Makeba Gibson, who passed away on October 6, 2019, due to complications associated with giving birth. Shamony’s story and Benton Gibson’s reproductive activism are depicted in the award-winning documentary “Aftershock” which addresses the black maternal health crisis in the United States and its origins.

Benton Gibson’s expertise ranges from substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, child welfare, youth development, individual, family and group counseling, trauma, grief, loss and bereavement, women’s health and leadership, birth equity, and racial equity, social, and restorative justice. She employs a holistic, cultural and spiritual approach to her work and applies a racial equity, and social justice lens at the foundation for all of the programs and services that her company provides. Her principal teaching, training, and healing tools consist of spiritual counseling, vision coaching, psychodrama, sociometry, sacred rituals, energy work, the performing arts, and storytelling as mediums to ignite transformation and initiate catharsis. According to Shawnee, doing healing work is “a labor of love and liberation”.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Shawnee Benton Gibson, LMSW/FDLC, reports that she has no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.

Psychologist Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing education. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CE activity.  Sheppard Pratt designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour for Psychologists.

Social Worker Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners of Maryland to offer continuing education for Social Workers.  Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CE activity. This activity is approved for 1.0 contact hour in Category I Anti-Oppressive Social Work credit for Social Workers.

Counselor Statement:  Sheppard Pratt has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5098.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Sheppard Pratt is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.  This activity is available for 1.0 NBCC clock hour.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
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This presentation will be an ONLINE VIRTUAL LIVE broadcast on November 15, 2024, 2024, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET. While this activity is LIVE and can only be viewed during the time specified, the evaluation will be available online until December 13, 2024. Go to the Register tab above to learn how to participate for continuing education credit, watch the broadcast and download the slides.

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Required Hardware/software

Optimal System Configuration

Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player 10.1+
Browser: Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Safari 4.0+, or Google Chrome 7.0+
Operating System: Windows XP+ or Mac OS X 10.4+
Internet Connection: 1 Mbps or higher

Minimum Requirements

Windows PC: 500-MHz Pentium II; Windows XP or higher; 128 MB RAM; Video Card at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card at least 16-bit; Macromedia Flash Player 10 or higher, audio playback with speakers for programs with video content; Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Safari 1.0+, Google Chrome, or Opera
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher with latest updates installed; 1.83MHz Intel Core Duo or faster; RAM: 128MB or more; Video Card: at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card: at least 16-bit

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