Diversity in its Many Forms:

Culture, Class & Age

OUTLINE

8:20 to 10:00              I:       Five Levels of Experience

                                                a.  Semi-Global

                                                b.  Large Group

                                                c.   Small Group

                                                d.  Family

                                                e.   Individual

10:00 to 10:10            Break

10:10 to 11:40            II:      Culture

                                                a.  History is Geography

                                                b.  Swerving

                                                c.   Rituals and Traditions – Acts We Perform

                                                d.  Values – Stories We Tell

11:40 to 12:30            Lunch

12:30 to 2:00              III:     Class

                                                a.  The Impact of Economics

                                                b.  Class Solidarity

                                                c.   Where Classes Clash

                                                d.   The Hidden Impacts of Class

2:0 to 2:10                  Break

2:10 to 3:30                IV:     Age

                                                a.  Adolescence

                                                b.  Young Adulthood

                                                c.   Not Young, Not Old

                                                d.  Middle Age

                                                e.  Old

                                                f.   Elderly

Goal:              Participants will learn how to interact with diverse social groups.

Objectives:   Participants will learn how to recognize 5 levels of experience through clients use of language.

                        Participants will learn how to understand diversity through a study of geography, rituals and values expressed by clients.

                        Participants will learn how to understand class relations through an understanding of economics.

                        Participants will learn how to recognize the unique features of each stage of the life cycle through the behavioral

                        characteristics of each time period.

Methods:      Lecture, handouts, power point presentation, case presentation, case discussion

Presenter:    Jim Heisel, LISW-S LICDC is the owner of Heisel and Associates, a business which serves the social services field

                        by providing professional education to social workers, counselors, chemical dependency counselors, psychologists,

                        rehabilitation counselors, school counselors, marriage and family therapists and employee assistance professionals. 

                        Heisel and Associates sponsors up to 60 days of professional workshops each year in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky

                        and has performed workshops in 17 different states. 

                        Jim Heisel has been a professional trainer since 1984.  He specializes in providing workshops on adolescents, addicted

                        people, couples, families, brief treatment methods and professional ethics.  Mr. Heisel has performed over 600 workshops. 

                        Additionally Mr. Heisel has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University.  He has taught over

                        35 college courses.  He is known for practical, informative and highly entertaining.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - Louisville, KY

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