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Juliet Koprowska – Losing heart in social work – and regaining it
When we think about relationship-building in social work, everyone knows that people want empathy, warmth, interest and kindness from social workers, and social workers usually want to bring those qualities into the work. Yet when we look at social work up close, the picture is patchy. Social workers carry out attuned, emotionally sensitive practice and also display disconnected practice lacking in respect for people. How and why does this happen? Drawing on both research and theory, this talk will explore the conditions that lead social workers to become alienated from the people we work with, and what it takes to reconnect with ourselves and others.
Juliet’s presentation can be viewed here: Losing heart in social work and regaining it – updated
Ravi Kohli – Social work with young refugees – relational wellbeing in a troubling world
Social work with young refugees is often multi-dimensional. When it goes well, it bridges the past, present and future. It makes the right things matter. It turns hopes into intentions. In my research, young people who are refugees seek out social workers with whom they can rebuild safe and prosperous everyday lives. In this presentation I look at the ways that social workers quietly and steadily contribute to young refugees’ lives in having enough material resources, being connected to others in sustainable ways, and feeling themselves at home in a new country. All these are aspects of ‘relational wellbeing’ in young refugee lives that are part of a research project that speaks to the notions of dignity and epistemic justice. It asks the question: what can we learn from the lives of young refugees when they go well? And how does wellbeing come into being, not just as a feeling inside somebody, but as a co-construction in the spaces between people when they seek to be together?
Ravi’s presentation can be viewed here: GAPS October 2024 Ravi Kohli handout slides
Films about Drawing Together:
Introduction to Drawing Together with Ravi https://vimeo.com/790747048
Scotland Young Persons https://vimeo.com/835842667
Scotland Value Persons https://vimeo.com/835841984
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