Learn healing-centered and trauma-informed strategies to support yourself, your colleagues, and your community in two dynamic courses this October: Social Emotional Librarianship and Managing Frontline Challenges.
Learn healing-centered and trauma-informed strategies to support yourself, your colleagues, and your community in two dynamic courses this October: Social Emotional Librarianship and Managing Frontline Challenges.
Course Overview: Social Emotional Librarianship
Effectively serving the needs of your community requires an understanding of how to support their social and emotional needs in addition to their information and practical needs. It also requires self-care strategies and engagement tools for yourself, colleagues, and staff. You’ll learn actionable steps for embedding social emotional communication, restorative justice, and trauma-informed practices into all of your services, as well as ways to support wellness in yourself and your library at large.
Join us for this guest speaker program and online workshop where you’ll learn from experts how to support the ‘whole patron’ in your practice, programs, partnerships, and services.
Featured Speakers
Lindsay Welles-Wyczalkowski,
(she, her) Educational Leader, Social and Emotional Learning District Coordinator, Professional Learning Expert
Sonia Alcantara-Antoine, (she, her) CEO of Baltimore County Public Library (MD)
Stephen Jackson, (he, him)Director of Equity and Antiracism, Oak Park Public Library
Course Overview: Tools and Strategies for Managing Frontline Challenges
More than ever, librarians and teachers are expected to be on the front lines of challenging issues while serving their communities with empathy and compassion. In this course, you will learn tangible strategies for managing the toughest situations that arise in your libraries and classrooms. This hands-on, project-based course will give you the opportunity to engage in practice scenarios with peer and expert feedback to ensure you are prepared to tackle challenges with confidence. Along with learning to manage difficult situations, you will learn tips to maintain wellness and self-care, because working to increase the safety and comfort of any library or classroom must include staff, too.
Featured Speakers
Jevin West, (he, him) Associate Professor Information School, University of Washington
Leah Esguerra,
(she, her) LMFT, San Francisco Public Library Social Worker Supervisor
Becky Calzada,
(she, her) Library Services Coordinator, Leander ISD (TX), TLA Legislative Committee, AASL Director at Large
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