Future Proofing Your Social Work Practice

Laura Burney Nissen, Ph.D.,CADC III

3 Category A CEs approved by NASW NH

This workshop will help participants acquire practical skills to future-proof their social work practice. This includes scanning and sensemaking of the world around us, as well as thinking through “the inner work of foresight” regarding personal and professional dimensions of dealing with constant change all around us. Participants will leave with a variety of imaginative and real-world tools – and very specific takeaways to begin exploring the future of their focus area. Additional information will be provided for those that wish to continue learning more about foresight and get involved with the “Social Work Futures Lab 2.0” about to open up nationally as a learning and practice community.

About the Presenter

Laura Nissen, Ph.D.,CADC III,Former Dean and Professor Laura Burney Nissen is with the Portland State University School of Social Work. With a commitment to innovative and equity-centered systems change, Laura has worked with futures practice and lenses throughout her career in a variety of transdisciplinary settings. She is in the a foresight practitioner and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Future and has served as a Presidential Futures Fellow at PSU 2019-2022. She has been PI on a two-year grant to convene first of its kind national Social Work Health Futures Lab from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This lab provides infrastructure and inspiration to further develop applications of a futures lens for the social work profession with an emphasis on practice in health and health justice, and her lab has just received a second grant for a national conference on this topic, and she has a book coming out in late 2024 with Oxford University Press entitled “Anticipatory Social Work.” Her commitment is to challenge social work and social workers to think beyond the traps of “short-termism” and participate in co-creating the world we want. She lives in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington. For additional information about her work, please visit: www.socialworkfutures.com, follow on Twitter @lauranissen.

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