1.5 CEUs Webinar: Disabled vs. Differently Abled: How To Talk About Our Shared Human Experience, with Fanny Chalfin, BA, AM, LICSW

Date: Wednesday, October 26 (12:00 - 1:30pm EST)

In this webinar, we will explore important ways of forming connection through compassion and wisdom outside of the political and academic discourse.  While political and academic discourse have their place, this webinar will encourage respectful conversation about human variation through the lens of our different abilities and what it feels like to be “different”. The goal will be to move from theoretical concepts of inclusivity to creating space for dialogue with one another that can help us see each other as complex, amazing individuals.

• Participants will become more knowledgeable about how culture and rhetoric influence our thinking about and comfort with ourselves and others, and what we believe is possible.
• Participants will become more knowledgeable about the ways language and culture cause people to self-censor their authentic selves in order to not be shamed, criticized or excluded.
• Participants will become more knowledgeable about how to make room for non-political, non-academic and non-binary ways of thinking about themselves and others with the goal of moving from a theoretical framework to a deeper acceptance and openness towards individuals and groups of people who experience the world differently.

Speaker Bio: Fanny Chalfin is in private practice in Northampton, MA.  She holds a Masters degree in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago as well as an MSW from Smith College.  She has presented and published on the topic of the role of a visible/visual disability in the clinical dyad.  She thinks of social work as the place where the personal and political come together, and finds the marginalization of the disabled/differently abled community, even among social work colleagues to be a surprisingly neglected area of cultural competency and diversity.

Registration fees: $15 for members and $35 for non-members. 

Online registrations are closing on October 24. 

This webinar will be recorded and uploaded to the NASW CE Online Institute. 

Details and Zoom link will be shared a few days before the webinar.