Bridging the Gap: A Social Justice-Based Approach to Helping Youth Overcome Systemic Oppression and Build Adult Allyship

This course offers theory and tools for working effectively with youth. We will cover areas encompassing the challenges young people face including systems of oppression, seeing and bolstering their strengths, building relationships with young people based in connection, trust and respect, self-awareness as a practitioner, supporting young people to engage in social change and more.

Shira Sameroff, LCSW is a therapist, coach, teacher and group facilitator with over 30 years of practice with people of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of settings. Professional roles have included therapy, supervision, group design and facilitation, professional development training, teaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency.
Shira weaves a range of therapeutic healing modalities including IFS, Hakomi and other holistic, somatic, nature-based and anti-oppressive practices into her work with individuals, groups and organizations. She works around themes including ending oppression, shame, loneliness, group facilitation, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth and tending to self as a practitioner.
Shira's approach is collaborative, intuitive, creative and full of heart and is rooted in my own lived experience of healing, learning and emerging.