Workshop Description

Liberatory social work practice is about creating spaces of liberation through a trauma informed social justice lens. There is a tendency to view trauma and traumatic experiences through a deficit lens, but what if we looked at trauma, the naming and defining of trauma, from the lens of opportunity? What is our responsibility as social workers to help our clients find joy?

This course interrogates the field of social work from the places of trauma, joy and liberation. The presenter will discuss ways to address various forms of traumas, including cultural, systemic, and individual trauma., The presenter will identify the manifestations of trauma and ways that trauma has the opportunity to bring joy and liberation. This workshop will, unpack, deconstruct and position trauma as something normative that impacts our individual and collective consciousness. In addition, the workshop will offer ways that social workers can help their clients develop a liberatory and critical consciousness towards trauma.