What Now? Ethics, Power, and Liberatory Praxis in Social Work

A 4-Week Cohort Experience for Practitioners Navigating Moral Injury
8 CEUs | Live Virtual Training

Social workers are facing an ethical crisis.

We are told to remain neutral in systems that are not neutral.
We are expected to comply with policies that harm.
We are encouraged to separate professionalism from politics—while our Code of Ethics names social justice as a core value.

Many practitioners are carrying moral injury—not because they are weak, but because they are awake to the contradiction.

This 4-week live cohort is a space for honest reckoning.

Not a webinar.
Not a surface-level DEI training.
Not a list of what you “should” do.

This is a rigorous, reflective learning space where we examine how ethics have been shaped by colonial logics, map power within your organization, and develop a liberatory praxis that accounts for both your values and your survival.

What You’ll Gain

By the end of this experience, you will be able to:

• Analyze how professional ethics have been used to maintain the status quo

• Conduct a practical power analysis of your workplace

• Distinguish liberatory frameworks from diversity interventions

• Apply ethical cost accounting to real-world dilemmas

• Name and contextualize moral injury as a collective response

• Draft a personal liberatory praxis statement to guide future decision-making

You will leave with clarity—not easy answers, but grounded direction.

Format

4 Weeks | 2 Hours Per Week | 8 CEUs
Live Virtual Cohort

Thursdays 9:30–11:30am ET
March 26
April 2
April 9
April 16

Includes integration prompts between sessions and community dialogue.

Who This Is For

Social workers and justice-oriented mental health professionals who are:

• Navigating tension between organizational demands and personal values

• Seeking frameworks beyond cultural competence

• Ready to think critically about power, complicity, and liberatory action

Practitioners across clinical practice, policy, education, child welfare, nonprofit leadership, criminal justice, and organizing are welcome.

This training centers the experiences and wisdom of Black, Indigenous, and practitioners of color, and welcomes all professionals committed to justice-oriented practice.

Investment

Early Bird: $675 (limited-time rate)
Regular: $800
Payment Plan: 4 payments of $200

CEs included.

If you have been asking yourself, What now?
If you are carrying quiet dissonance in your professional role…
If you are ready to practice with integrity under real conditions…

This cohort is for you.