Fall 2025 SOWK 590 Week 08 - Advanced Seminar I

Fall 2025 SOWK 590 Week 08 - Advanced Seminar I
title: Fall 2025 SOWK 590 Week 08 - Advanced Seminar I date: 2025-10-13 22:37:09 location: Heritage University tags:
- Heritage University
- MSW Program
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Week eight is synchronous with having class on Saturday (10/18/25) for SOWK 590. Students continue to work at the practicum and will submit their weekly journal. We will have the following agenda:
- SLED: Intersectionality and Identity
- Mindfulness activity
- Practice Learning Reflection Group
The learning objectives this week include:
- Students consider intersectionality and identity, and how these concepts relate to their practice.
- Students will actively practice a mindfulness activity.
- Students will recognize the shared experiences of their peers in the practicum and be able to utilize the group as a method for sharing and problem-solving.
- Students will analyze their practicum experience, reflecting on how it connects to their development and demonstration of competence.

Plan for Week 08
Agenda
- SLED: Intersectionality and Identity
- Mindfulness activity
- Practice Learning Reflection Group
learning objectives
- Students consider intersectionality and identity, and how these concepts relate to their practice.
- Students will actively practice a mindfulness activity.
- Students will recognize the shared experiences of their peers in the practicum and be able to utilize the group as a method for sharing and problem-solving.
- Students will analyze their practicum experience, reflecting on how it connects to their development and demonstration of competence.

Student-led Discussion
[Whole Group Activity] Assigned students will facilitate discussion with the class regarding chosen topic.
Intersectionality and Identity

Wheel of Awareness and the Plane of Possibility
Dr. Dan Siegle
[Whole Class Activity] Listen to Wheel of Awareness and the Plane of Possibility
Here is an image of “The Wheel of Awareness.” The hub represents the experience of awareness itself — knowing — while the rim contains all the points of anything we can become aware of, that which is known to us. We can send a spoke out to the rim to focus our attention on one point or another on the rim. In this way, the wheel of awareness becomes a visual metaphor for the integration of consciousness as we differentiate rim-elements and hub-awareness from each other and link them with our focus of attention.

Practice Learning Reflection Group
Group Norms
- We will be respectful of each other
- We will approach our dialogue with an open mind
- We will engage and fully participate
- We will keep our clients’ information confidential
Group Check-in Question
An activity that is facilitating learning for you this week.
Practicum Discussion
- What are some of the things that are happening in your practicums
- What are some of the needs of the clients you are working with
- Examples of client work to share with the group