Social Work & Me: Restoration through Relationships

The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living are co-hosting the second annual Social Work & Me Conference. This educational program is a one-day conference for social work professionals dedicated to enhancing the mental, emotional, physical, and relational well-being of the practitioner. This interactive program will explore a variety of self-care practices while engaging social workers in honest dialogue to connect with one another and the larger community to cultivate the power of restorative relationships.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• Describe what restores your personal, professional and spiritual relationships
• Learn restorative practices to reboot and transform self-care.
• Rediscover and redefine meaning and purpose of relationships as expressed through the clarifying lens of Viktor Frankl’s work.
• Understanding our sacred place and relationship in the vast web of our shared natural world.
• Highly trained Reiki practitioners and Reiki masters will be present throughout the conference to bathe you with life-force energy known as "Reiki" in Japanese and "Chi" in Chinese and "Prana" in Sanskrit.
• You will be thoughtfully introduced to interactive practices of self-love, self-awareness as you take time to reconnect with the heart of who you are through a diversity of mini-practices.