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 is offering Peer Supervision groups for 2013-2014 in Boston, MA and Pasadena/Oakland, CA

Modules	2013-2014 Module Meeting Dates	Fee
BOSTON Four one and one-half day sessions that meet over the course of a year	Sept. 19-20, 2013 Dec. 5-6, 2013 Mar. 20-21, 2014 June 5-6, 2014	$2,000.00 $1,500.00 for previous participants
PASADENA/OAKLAND Four sessions that meet quarterly	Oct. 20-21, 2013 (Pasadena) Jan. 12-13, 2014 (Oakland) Apr. 27-28, 2014 (Pasadena) June 22-23, 2014 (Oakland)	$2,000.00 $1,500.00 for previous 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.

 

• Workshop Registration

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