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Webinar - Ethics & Boundaries: Addressing the Implicit Power Imbalance
Thursday, January 16, 2025, 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM CST
Category: WAFCA CE Training

Registration for this event closes January 14.  

Ethics & Boundaries: Addressing the Implicit Power Imbalance 
Presented by Adesola Oni, LICSW and Shawn Smith, MINT Certified Trainer

*Up to 4 CE credits will be issued to those attending this virtual opportunity.
Details: January 16 (10:00am - 2:30pm, including a 30-minute lunch break)

Description: This 4-hour live webinar is designed for social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other helping professionals working in teams or as individual practitioners. This workshop explores the intersection of the 4 Principles of Cultural Humility and the person-centered approach of Motivational Interviewing to address impacts of provider-client power imbalances. During this presentation, we will experientially explore the following: 

  1. How to address the implicit power imbalance in service relationships by sharing information and educating in partnership. 
  2. Our own values to ensure we are maintaining healthy boundaries and avoid implicitly foisting our values onto those we serve. 
  3. How to leverage a served person's values to develop discrepancy regarding decision making and/or behavior change while respecting their self-ascribed identity. 

Learning Objectives: At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:  

  • Reflect on our values and how they may be unique from those values of served people. 
  • Use Discover-Affirm+Ask-Tell-Ask in partnership with your colleagues, agency, and served people. 
  • Describe ambivalence about behavior change. 
  • Honor a served person’s identity while applying strategies to energize served people to resolve ambivalence about behavior change.  
Presenter Information:

Adesola Oni began her career as a Juvenile Correctional Officer in 2005. She provided support and supervision necessary to meet the needs of youths in various programs. In 2007, she worked as a Social Worker and primarily provided individual, group and family counseling and evidenced based interventions for 8 years. Adesola also served as an Evidence Based Practice curriculum trainer from 2012 till 2017. In this role, she developed and delivered training with curriculums in the areas of Motivational Interviewing, Assessment, and Cognitive Behavioral Interventions and has provided trainings to individuals in the fields of human services, corrections, and education. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. Adesola currently works in a role that guides provision of innovative and equity based responses in the Juvenile Justice System. Adesola is a graduate of Augsburg College, MN with a Masters in Social Work. She is also a graduate of University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MN with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and a minor in African American and Foreign Studies. She holds an Independent Clinical Social Work License and has been appointed by the governor of Minnesota to serve on the Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council for the Department of Human Services. Learn more about Adesola here.

Shawn Smith is a founder of Share Collaborative—a human services professional development organization based in Milwaukee, WI—and a Motivational Interviewing of Network of Trainers (MINT) Certified Trainer.  Share Collaborative’s goal is to guide professionals in learning how to engage with people struggling with the impact of trauma in ways that support them choosing to heal and transform their trauma while revering their identity. Shawn has 25+ years of applied and practical experience as a direct service provider, program director, and agency leader in residential treatment, criminal justice, education, youth services, and workforce development settings. He’s trained thousands of human service professionals in a wide range of service contexts since 2010.  He is an early adopter of Cultural Humility, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Informed Care, and Reflective Supervision.  Shawn initiated the first training of facilitators with the originator of Cultural Humility, Dr. Melanie Tervalon, in Wisconsin. Learn more about Shawn here.

A Note on WAFCA Webinars: Webinars are live virtual learning opportunities designed to be accessed by individuals. Group participation is not encouraged; post-webinar group discussions are a recommended alternative.

In order to offer CE credits for these virtual learning opportunities via NBCC, WAFCA verifies attendance using Zoom. Each registrant receives a unique link that confirms their attendance and email address for CE certificates. Link sharing is not permitted, and CE credits are not available for unregistered participants.

About our Offerings: WAFCA has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6778. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. WAFCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Visit the WAFCA-CE registration page for more information on fees and policies. 

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