Ongoing Multicultural Skill-Building Groups (a.k.a. Peer Supervision)

Another option for multicultural training is to join one of the Ongoing Multicultural Skill-Building Groups, also known as Peer Supervision. This continuing program is ideally suited for individuals and small groups working in multicultural environments, experiencing race-related challenges, or wanting to get re-energized in their commitment to changing sexism, classism, racism, and other "isms."

VISIONS offers supervised follow-up for ongoing multicultural training through monthly, day-long, and half-day sessions, as well as quarterly two-day sessions. Participants practice implementing multicultural approaches, with the support and feedback of facilitators and other group members.

Peer supervision groups are designed to offer the following objectives:

  • Enhance participants' ability to effect change on the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels
  • Broaden participants' knowledge and application of theory and practice as related to modern oppression, internalized oppression, worldview differences, racial identity development, intervention strategies, cross-cultural communication, supervision and conflict resolution, and multicultural organizational development
  • Strengthen participants' understanding of transactional analysis/ Gestalt theory and how these techniques can be best utilized to bring about change
  • Provide opportunities to practice new facilitation and intervention skills
  • Deepen participants' awareness of the connections and intersections among all forms of oppression
  • Support participants' own continued development around issues of oppression and power imbalances.

Workshop Schedule, Fees, and Registration Information

VISIONS will be offering Peer Supervision groups for 2009-2010 in Boston, New York, and Pasadena/Oakland.

Modules

2010-2011 Module Meeting Dates
Fee

BOSTON
Four one and one-half day sessions that meet over the course of a year

Sept. 23-24, 2010
Dec. 2-3, 2010
Mar. 24-25, 2011
June 2-3, 2011

$2,000.00

$1,500.00 for previous participants

NEW YORK
Six sessions that meet over the course of a year

TBD
 

$2,000.00

$1,800.00 for continuing participants

PASADENA/OAKLAND
Four sessions that meet quarterly

 

 

Oct. 24-25, 2010 (Pasadena)
Jan. 23-24, 2011 (Oakland)
Mar. 20-21, 2011 (Pasadena)
June 26-27, 2011 (Oakland)

$2,000.00

$1,500.00 for continuing participants

 

Prerequisite: Each Peer Supervision module requires previous participation in a VISIONS training, either "A Personal Approach to Multiculturalism: Changing Racism and other Isms" (most preferably having completed Part I and Part II) and/or participation in an ongoing consultation with VISIONS at your workplace or community group.

 

To receive more information, click here or call the VISIONS office at (617) 541-4100.

 

 

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