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About trauma, about whiteness not being something we chose, but the construct of whiteness being something we can change… An awareness needs to be more present and talked about.
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I think we as a majority white group in this room need to be able to have an open conversation about this.
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What are your thoughts on this? ( Note: referring to a section on page 205). How can we, as helping professionals, hold empathy and accountability simultaneously? What is an area of your life that you have become more aware of since reading this book? For me, I have become more in tune with the feelings I get in my body and the immediate thoughts that come with that – I give myself freedom to feel those feelings and then find the logic in them if any logic is present. (I was reading it for the first time along with them.) Even though it was a hard topic to discuss, spending time with the students in this discussion was a gift each week for me, to have the space to unpack it. Their questions and observations were so sincere and thought provoking. That is the biggest “win” for me, that students could immediately apply it to their work/field placement life and that it was challenging them to think about racism and racialized trauma on a near daily basis.īelow is a small sampling of some of the quotes or questions that were submitted by students on the week they were discussion leaders. One of my colleagues, who teaches a seminar class that corresponds with students’ field placements, said that students often related the book content to their class and their processing of field. They said frequently that every person should read this book, or at least every social worker or every student in a capstone class across campus. I assigned three discussion leaders each week, and most weeks we read three chapters. Posted by sabrinasullenberger ApPosted in social work education Tags: Beloved community, social work education, teaching Leave a comment on Teach me, but stay close by My Grandmother’s Hands Īnd I will remind them that while I won’t be their teacher anymore, I will always be close by. I am excited to see what they bring to the future, the good work they will do in the world, and the ways they will live into their calling.Īt the end of our presentations and before pizza (a critical moment, ha ha), I will be sharing this poem with them: Everything is Waiting For You (by David Whyte). Obviously there are some I know better than others, but individually and collectively they have so much strength. They had a “normal” freshman year, their sophomore spring semester was interrupted by COVID, junior year was spent very hybrid for some and fully online for others senior year has been a little more normal, but since it was mostly masked and with a couple of short periods online, even it has not been ideal for them. The next time we see them in a big group is on graduation day. It is a tradition in our department that we have a senior send off right after the Capstone exam session, where all the faculty and our staff come and join. We have an exam period (we will be doing presentations) and then we will be doing celebrations: pizza, ice cream, pictures, and more. Tomorrow is the last day I will see “my” seniors in the collective sense.
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And I named that out loud, in the moment. It had happened to the two speakers before me, and as he was making his second trip to the podium during my presentation I said “can you teach me?” (he showed me quickly what I was doing wrong) and then as he walked away I said “but also can you stay close by?”Īnd I realized this is a metaphor for a lot: parenting, teaching, some of the community work I am doing. A running joke during the meeting as we changed speakers was the tech trouble we were always having the same trouble and the assistant kept coming up from the back of the room to come to our aid. I have been running non-stop for the past few days especially, with all good things but also just too many things. I was giving a presentation today, on the second of two “dead days”, which is the space in between the end of the semester and the beginning of exam period.