Nobody Does this Work Alone: The Role of Relationships in Advocating for Social Change

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
7:00-8:30 pm EDT | Online via Zoom
Workshop attendance is FREE |Receive a CE credit certificate for $20.00

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Workshop Overview

Discover how the lessons and relationships of the Civil Rights Movement can inspire today’s work in education and mental health. This session equips participants with practical strategies for fostering healing, empowerment, and social change through relationship-centered practice and grassroots approaches. Educators will learn how to build inclusive, thriving classrooms rooted in collaboration and empowerment. Mental health providers will gain tools for connecting individual and community wellbeing, using relational and advocacy-based frameworks to support growth and resilience.

Featuring Elaine Weiss, author of Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools that Built the Civil Rights Movement and respondents Kimberly Hardy (EdD), Cathy Lounsbury (EdD & LCPC), and Fayth Parks (PhD, LPC). Participants will learn how the lessons and relationships formed during the Civil Rights Movement can serve as a model for fostering grassroots efforts that lead to positive social impact. Key themes include the importance of agency, nurturing wellbeing within communities, and collaboratively creating spaces for learning and care. These lessons offer participants insight into affecting meaningful and positive social change.

Who Should Attend?

This program is for educators, mental health practitioners, and leadership and change advocates. We highly encourage students from the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, School of Counseling, Psychology, and Therapy, and School of Education to attend!

Learning Objectives

For Clinical Mental Health Providers:

1. By the end of the session, participants will be able to explain how relationships and collective action can foster healing and post-traumatic growth, using Relational-Cultural Theory to connect individual and community mental health.

2. By the end of the session, participants will be able to analyze the role of grassroots education and leadership (e.g., citizenship schools) in shaping identity, well-being, and social change, and apply these insights to social work practice.

3. By the end of the session, participants will be able to identify how advocacy emerges through mutual relationships and growth-in-connection, and articulate strategies for integrating relationship-centered advocacy into social work.

For Educators:

1. By the end of the session, participants will be able to analyze the role of grassroots education and leadership (e.g., citizenship schools) in shaping identity, well-being, and social change, and apply these insights to teaching-learning.

2. By the end of the session, participants will be able to connect grassroots ideas about co-constructing literacy learning and citizenship schools to their own classrooms, and consider how these approaches can support inclusive and empowered learning today.

3. By the end of the session, participants will be better able to understand and balance power dynamics and regulations while fostering thriving learning communities.

4. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to draw on ideas about how aligning relationships, education, and leadership can create school communities where both students and teachers feel empowered and thrive in their wellbeing.

Continuing Education

Individuals must attend the entire event to receive continuing education credit. Partial credit is not available. Additional requirements regarding enrollment, documentation and eligibility may apply.

Continuing Education Certificate - Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. Individuals who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate for 1.5 continuing education credit hours. This certificate may be submitted to your state’s licensure or certification board for their consideration in meeting renewal requirements. CE credit varies from state to state. Participants are encouraged to check with their licensing board to determine if this offering qualifies for acceptance as Continuing Education credit.

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) - Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Antioch University is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for mental health professionals. Antioch University maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) - Antioch University New England - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Department has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4338. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Antioch University New England - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Department is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

This offering has been approved for OSPI clock hours. Continuing Education credit from Antioch Seattle can be submitted to OSPI for professional development / clock hours. If your district requires an official transcript, please contact continuing-education@antioch.edu.

Accommodations
To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at continuing-education@antioch.edu.

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