When “Advising” Isn’t What Is Needed

CAIS
  • Pre-Registration Required
  • virtual
  • Posted 2 years ago

Details

When : Tuesday, December 7 and Thursday, December 9, 6:00 - 7:15 PM
Where : virtual
Topics : wellness, health, mental health, advisory, counseling, support
Cost : $65 per person or $325 All-School, All-Access Pass


Description

What do you do when advising isn’t enough to address a student’s needs? When a student is wrestling with a situation or dilemma for which advice-giving and advising aren’t actually useful, we need to set aside the advising hat and listen. That’s easier said than done, as we all know; old habits die hard. And it’s never been more urgent than now, as students wrestle with a sense of uncertainty about their own future and the world around them; a reckoning of racial justice – and the counteracting pressures against that movement, and the perception that maybe even the adults around them could use some help, too. Three faculty members from the long-standing Stanley H. King Institute are here to offer some of that help. Paula Chu, Roland Davis, and Sam Osherson – will take us through an interactive workshop that will hone our deep listening skills and help us recognize when what a student needs most is our willingness to bear compassionate, effective witness to their growth and stumbling blocks.

Please come prepared to stay for the entirety of both 75 minutes sessions and to participate in experiential exercises and practice – listening is one thing you can’t “experience” through a lecture. You won’t regret it!

Paula Chu, Ph.D., LMHC, LPC, NCC has a private psychotherapy/consulting practice. After a decade as a college dean, minority student advisor, and international student advisor, Paula worked for 16 years in a boarding school as Academic Dean and Director of Counseling, teaching throughout. Paula shifted to a private practice in 2006. She has been a faculty member at the Stanley H. King Institute since 2001 and serves as the Institute Associate Director. Paula has taught basic counseling skills at the Blackberry River Retreat (for independent school college counselors) since 2008 and frequently visits independent schools to give trainings on deep listening skills, social styles on teams, and on anti-bias research and practice. For more information about Paula, visit http://paulachu.com. 

 

Roland Davis, MSW is an educator, equity and inclusion practitioner, and consultant with 25 years of leadership experience at secondary and post-secondary levels. He has served as Chief Program Officer for SCS Noonan Scholars, Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Harvard College, Assistant Head at Middlesex School, and Director of the Office of Intercultural Education/Associate Dean of Students at Bates College.

 

 

Sam Osherson, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Fielding Graduate University and a long-time faculty member at the Stanley H. King institute. He is the author of the classic, Finding Our Fathers. His most recent book is The Wolf Boy, an historical novel. Sam blogs for Psychology Today at www.psychologytoday.com/blog/listen.

 

 

 


Location virtual