The WSSCSW has partnered with Seattle U’s School of Social Work to be able to welcome licensed clinical social worker Vanessa Jackson, MSW from Atlanta, Georgia! Ms Jackson is an author, therapist and trainer. In addition to her therapy practice with clients, she is passionate about supporting activists to create healthy balanced lives.
October 20, 2018
Transforming Powerlessness Into Power:
Emancipatory practices for healing trauma in activists and other woke folks
Co-Sponsored by the WSSCSW and SU School of Social Work
Central to Ms. Jackson’s work is an analysis of power. In our conference she will explore the importance of “power literacy” when working with marginalized communities and their allies. She will offer attendees a framework of the Seven Healing Questions to support exploration into how power impacts our functioning, our relationships and our capacity to maintain a state of emotional well-being.
I think that Ms Jackson’s work will be a great next learning step to follow the last two conferences: on racial literacy with Robin DiAngelo and Deborah Terry-Hays last spring and then the feminist therapy perspective on culturally competent trauma work with Laura Brown this last fall.
I hope you will join me this October to learn with Vanessa Jackson, your fellow WSSCSW members, social work students from UW and SU and other interested therapists. See you there!
As always, discounts are offered for members, associate members, and students.
