Priority early registration is available only to NASW members until Thursday, July 29th.

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This interdisciplinary workshop will use bibliotherapy, a creative arts therapy encompassing journaling, storytelling, poetry, spoken word and song lyrics, to explore social justice themes through the written and spoken word. The creative arts therapy will also be interwoven with social group work.

Participants will learn what biblio/poetry therapy is and how it works. Participants will learn to be able to recognize the basic four phases of bibliotherapy. The workshop will introduce this empowering expressive technique so that the attendees will be able to begin incorporating bibliotherapy into their practice.

Participants will be asked to engage in an immersive poetry therapy experience because the best way to learn about poetry therapy is to experience it first oneself. Participants will be asked to engage actively in personal writing, reflection, and self-expression followed by voluntary sharing through dyads, small groups and the group as a whole.

Because art works through the heart, the application of bibliotherapy is a powerful complementary tool to therapy for clients to achieve greater insight, cognitive growth, and emotional expression.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Learn how bibliotherapy works and how to use these empowering techniques with their clients
• Use poetry, journaling and storytelling to identify and reclaim cultural, ethnic, and racial identities
• Explore identity through the written and spoken voice
• Immerse oneself in the bibliotherapy process for greater curiosity, self-awareness, and understanding about social justice issues that lead to marginalization and fractured identity

NASW-NYC Member: $54 | Other Chapter Member: $68 | Non-Member: $81

3 SW CE Contact Hours

Sherry Reiter, PhD, LCSW is a clinical social worker and registered poetry therapist, and Director of The Creative Righting Center. She is author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing, a primer in the field of bibliotherapy. She is past President of The National Association for Poetry Therapy, and the International Federation of Biblio/Poetry Therapy.

Dr. Reiter teaches for Touro College and Hofstra University. Dr. Reiter created Poets-Behind-Bars for the Indiana State Prison and won numerous awards for her visionary work with marginalized populations.

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NASW-NYC Certificates Policy

As per New York State Continuing Education guidelines, attendees must arrive on time and attend the ENTIRE workshop to receive their Continuing Education Contact Hours. Any attendees who arrive late or leaves early to a workshop will not receive their certificate, is not allowed admittance into the workshop and is also not eligible for a refund in any way. 

Please ensure that your registration information is accurate as this may impact your continuing education certificates.  NASW-NYC is not responsible for the accuracy of your registration information. To receive your certificate of completion, you must be present for the entire webinar and complete an evaluation.

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to accounting.naswnyc@socialworkers.org. Refund e-mails must include the subject line "Refund Request" as well as the attendee's name, workshop date and title in the body of the e-mail. Valid requests must be received no later than three business days prior to course date. NASW-NYC reserves the right to refuse any refunds requested later than three days prior to the course date.

• All refunds are subject to a 30% administrative processing fee.
• Refund requests typically require 1-2 weeks processing time.
• Refunds ONLY; credit cannot be issued toward a future program date or substituted for another workshop.

If the workshop is cancelled, you will be informed ahead of time and fully refunded.

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Please be advised that photography, and audio and video recording of participants at NASW-NYC events may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, and video recording (referred to as the “Recordings”) and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction for promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose reasonably related to the mission of the National Association of Social Workers.

You release NASW-NYC, its officers, employees and agents from any liability connected with such use of the Recordings and waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with such use of the Recordings. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by NASW-NYC or the person or entity designated to do so by NASW-NYC.

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NASW New York City Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0027, and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports as an approved provider of CASAC credits #0288.