Preferred registration deadline: October 30th

3 CEs

In this intermediate workshop, we will build upon the foundational concepts of cultural humility through mindfulness, deepening participants' understanding of how mindfulness practices can support cultural humility, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and compassionate engagement across difference.

Drawing on the Washington University Mindfulness and Anti-Racism Speaker Series, this workshop will explore how mindfulness can serve not only as a tool for individual well-being but as a foundation for collective healing and systems change. Participants will engage with frameworks and practices from the series, including the inner work of racial justice (Magee), fighting injustice without hating (V. Brown), decolonizing mindfulness (Yellow Bird), belonging as an antidote to disconnection (Sofer), and healing collective trauma (Lingo).

Through guided mindfulness practices, reflection exercises, facilitated dialogue, and experiential activities, participants will strengthen their capacity to recognize embodied reactions and implicit assumptions, remain present with discomfort, and engage more intentionally in equity-centered work. This workshop also examines how mindfulness can foster more humane and inclusive organizational cultures by cultivating practices of reflection, self-observation, active listening, and relational awareness. Participants will identify concrete strategies for sustaining mindful and culturally humble engagement in their daily work and leadership, moving from inner awareness to compassionate action.

This workshop meets the social work licensure guideline for 3 hours of continuing education in diversity/cultural competency/humility. This is an interactive synchronous distance learning course via Zoom.

General Admission: $65**
**Eligible discounts can be applied during checkout.

Class size is limited to 45.

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Course Outline

Content Level: Intermediate

Target Audiences: Social workers, public health professionals, counselors, psychologists, educators, healthcare providers, nonprofit professionals, administrators, faculty, staff, students, and individuals interested in mindfulness, equity, cultural humility, and inclusive organizational practice. 

Agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions - 5 mins
• Grounding and Re-connection - 15 mins
• Mindfulness, Embodiment and Collective Healing - 40 mins
• Experiential Practice and Reflective Dialogue - 40 mins
• From Awareness to Compassionate Action - 40 mins
• Integration, Action Planning, and Closing Practice - 40 mins

Learner Outcomes

• Analyze how embodied mindfulness practices — including somatic awareness, loving-kindness, and RAIN — support cultural humility, self-awareness, and compassionate engagement across difference in professional settings.
• Apply mindfulness-based strategies to examine embodied reactions, implicit assumptions, and interpersonal dynamics — including the connections between individual and collective experiences of racism and trauma.
• Develop approaches for integrating mindful decolonization principles and reflective practices into equity-centered leadership, communication, and workplace interactions, drawing on diverse cultural and contemplative traditions.

Course Completion Requirements:

• The Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, Professional Development, provider #2130, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/24/2025 – 9/24/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 cultural competency continuing education credits.
• The Brown School is also an approved provider of Social Work CEs in Missouri and Illinois.
• To earn ACE credit, attendees must arrive at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation. ACE credit is not provided for partial attendance.  However, you may still qualify for partial Social Work Missouri and Illinois CEs provided by the Brown School.
• Brown School CE Certificates will be available online within 10 business days of course completion by visiting your learner profile at https://ce.wustl.edu/portal/logon.do?method=load&parentSite=brown.  You will receive an email notification with specific instructions for accessing the online certificate when it is available. ACE CE Certificates, if requested in your evaluation survey, will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.
• For more information about CEs, accessibility, refund/cancellation policy, our grievance policy, or other inquiries, please visit our About Us page or email brownprofdev@wustl.edu.