Cultivating Cultural Humility: Excavating Our Unconscious Biases

Online Workshop
Friday, January 26, 2024
10:00am - 1:30pm ET

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 3.5 CE contact hours

Whenever we interact with another person, we each bring our own personalities, values, ideas and perspectives to those interactions. Every one of us was raised in social environments (our family, our school, etc.) that informed us about our own identity, as well as the identities of others, in both subtle and overt ways. This training provides participants with unique opportunities to courageously reflect on who we are and the messages we received about ourselves and others, and to think about how these implicit messages serve us: how they impact perceptions and interactions with others, and how they affect our work. Participants will leave with an understanding of cultural humility as a lens through which to see ourselves and our clients; with concrete tools for having curious, respectful conversations around culture, and with a deeper understanding of the ways that who we are impacts what we do.

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will:

• Learn the broader definition of culture that incorporates every way that we or our clients might identify ourselves and how these apply to practice.
• Have an understanding of the term “humility” and how it applies to social service and mental health practice and cross-cultural work.
• Understand how cultural humility differs from cultural competence and serves as a more respectful, empowering and collaborative approach to direct social work and mental health practice.

Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW, SIFI (she/her)

Dr. Mara Gottlieb is the President of Talking Changes, an anti-oppression and bias-awareness consulting firm. For over twenty years, she has run trainings across the country, including serving as a keynote speaker and presenting at NASW conferences. Her programs address subjects ranging from cultural humility to anti-racism advocacy, LGBTQIA awareness, teen suicide prevention, and vicarious trauma. Her coaching, supervising and training are all grounded in the knowledge that we can be and do our best when we feel authentically seen, valued and respected.

Dr. Gottlieb has served as an adjunct professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, Smith College School for Social Work, and Southern Connecticut State University. She has published articles in the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, The New Social Worker, and other publications. Dr. Gottlieb holds a BA from Brown University, and earned her MSW, certification as a Supervisor in Field Instruction (SIFI), and PhD in Social Work from NYU. 

General Admission: $60.00

Available Discounts: 

• NYU Alumni (10% off): $54
• Current Practicum Instructors/Educational Coordinators (10% off): $54

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before January 19, 2024 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before January 23, 2024 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after January 24, 2024: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 3.5 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Note on Accessibility:
It is a priority to make our events inclusive and accessible. For any questions or to notify us of a request, please email silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu at least 72 hours before the event.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
285 Mercer Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
Fax: 212.995.4497