Event Description

Capability Level: Emerging; Evolving

The global digital landscape is consistently evolving and challenging the ideas of how we should practice, where, why and to what end ethically and morally. This webinar will act as a guide for how social workers can thrive online, in practice and individually, because social workers still need to have lives that consider the systemic and holistic use of “self” beyond their professional title. If you’re already practicing, wanting to refine your practice, get ideas for where else you can work or publish your work in the evolving digital landscape, this webinar will be for you. With a nuanced view of how we can better exemplify the profession, our individualism within it and the importance of social pedagogy in an ideologically diverse climate.

This webinar will help you to refine, reflect and perhaps even reconsider what is best and defensible practice for you in your career, as well as giving practical, directional and “no gatekeeping here” advice for achieving those next steps. With road mapping being an essential tool for career trajectory, this will be provided as a discussion, and a free “Use of Self” Road Mapping will be available free to help you truly take something away that’s sustains your motivation to commit to your vision as a practitioner.

Who should register?

Practicing social workers seeking to refine their practice and thrive online. This includes Social workers interested in exploring new areas of work or publishing in the digital landscape.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to: 

• Understand the evolving climate of online practice.
• Improved awareness of access to resources, sourcing clientele, risk and benefit of working online, and the expanding ways to do this.
• Analyse current awareness of “use of self” and how this informs career trajectory.
• Implement a personal roadmap for success in practice.

Testimonials

• "I found this webinar very useful about things to consider moving to online practice. Particularly the ethical considerations and professional boundaries and confidentiality."
• "I feel much more positive about being an older practitioner knowing that experience is still a draw card as well as using different forms of on line sessions."
• "The presenter was professional, engaging and knowledgeable. All areas that I wanted to learn were covered."