Reading, Writing and Reflecting: Narrative Skills in Social Work Practice
Location
Event Organizer
- Social Work Office of Professional Excellence (SWOPE)
- Email:
- swope@columbia.edu
DESCRIPTION
This workshop seeks to help social workers to open and extend communications with clients and colleagues by engaging in narrative practices and rediscovering the power of story. As social workers we realize that the care of our clients unfolds in stories, and we recognize that a central event of practice is for a client to give an account of self and for a clinician to skillfully receive it. Narrative techniques fulfill the mission and core competencies of the social work profession and are applicable to social workers practicing across a wide variety of professional settings.
PRESENTERS
The instructors are authors and co-editors of Narrative in Social Work Practice: The Power and Possibility of Story (May 2017).
Lynne Mijangos, LMSW, MFA, MS, spent forty years working in interdisciplinary teams as a nurse and social in medical and surgical floors, emergency and recovery rooms, schools, and early intervention projects. She graduated with an MFA in Nonfiction at The New School University and MS in the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Program. She has facilitated Narrative close reading and reflective writing workshops at Columbia University, Lutheran Hospital, Maimonides, NASW’s NYC chapter on Narrative Practice, and Mt. Sinai.
Lynn Lawrence, CSW, MSSW, MS has worked in medical, psychiatric in-patient units, outpatient units and has been in private practice for over 35 years. After earning her MS in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University, she has taught numerous Narrative courses focused on trauma, chronic illness, breast cancer and others. Lynn has also completed training at the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and publishes in both psychotherapy and narrative practice.
For more information and to register for the event, please click here. 6.5 contact hours are available for NYS, NJ and CT Licensed Social Workers. Licensed Social Workers for other states, please refer to your state licensing agency and email swope@columbia.edu. This event is also open to the public. Livestream available.
