New Date—Antiracist Supervision Training Series: Session #1

New date

Registrants for the original date will receive further information via email regarding refund and re-registration.

Bethel University’s Department of Social Work is hosting a series of three professional development workshops that will equip supervisors with the knowledge, skills, and effective processes to engage antiracism in their supervision practices. 

Overall learning objectives for the workshop series

• Deepen participants' understanding of systemic racism in social work education and supervision by examining how microaggressions, the imposter phenomenon, and collective/historical trauma uniquely impact BIPOC students and practitioners from marginalized communities.

• Foster the development of strategies that reflect cultural humility and that enable social work supervisors to address and mitigate the effects of racism and trauma within educational and professional environments.

• Equip participants to transition from awareness to impactful action by offering practical tools for advocacy, implementing equity-driven practices, and promoting continuous learning and antiracist interventions within social work education and supervision.

• Those who attend the entire 3-session series will be eligible for 9 CEUs.

This is the first of three sessions in this workshop series. For information on the other sessions, please see session #2 and session #3.

Session #1: Not Just An Emotion: The Impostor Phenomenon and Its Practical Impact on Social Work Students

• Understand the defining characteristics of the impostor phenomenon (IP), the historical context in which this experience is situated for BIPOC social work students, and how this phenomenon needs to be redefined for BIPOC students.

• Analyze how the cultural norms of white supremacy that exist within social work education today influence the ways in which IP manifests for BIPOC social work students.

• Explore strategies through which social work internship supervisors can mitigate feelings of IP among BIPOC social work students, addressing both micro and macro levels of intervention.

Dr. Gerri K. Connaught, Ph.D., LMSW (session #1 instructor), is a social work clinical practitioner, educator, qualitative researcher, and an NYC Reducing Inequality (RIN-NYC) Fellow who received her Ph.D. from the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. Gerri has been a practicing LMSW for ten years. Her clinical practice and research focuses on the intersections of race and wellness equities and her experience includes working with adults, young adults, couples, military veterans, and various student populations with issues such as anxiety, depression, racial identity, trauma, life transitions, grief, stress management, and the impostor phenomenon. 

Gerri also served as a Peer Advocate and Consultant for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. In this role, she helped students of color navigate their academic journeys and explored DEI best practices to help students of color thrive in academia. Gerri’s research interests include examining the structural ways in which higher education institutions contribute to feelings of the imposter phenomenon among students of color, particularly in social work education, and how this impacts their mental health and sense of self.