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SUMMARY:OASW Ottawa & Area: Reading Toward Accountability: A Decolonizing and Reconciliation Book Club for Social Workers
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DESCRIPTION:\n  When:\n\n\n  \n    \n      6:30–8:00 p.m. ET via Zoom\n    \n    \n      September 24\, 2026\n      October 20\, 2026\n      November 3\, 2026\n      November 12\, 2026\n      November 19\, 2026\n      December 8\, 2026\n    \n  \n\n\n  Where:\n\n\n  Zoom (The link will be sent one week prior to the date of the event.)\n\nDescription:\n\n  \n    Reading Toward Accountability\n  \n   is a facilitated\n    learning and reflection series for OASW members\, social workers\,\n    social work students\, educators\, field instructors\, and community\n    practitioners. Through Indigenous-authored and decolonizing texts\,\n    participants are invited to reflect on social work’s relationship to\n    colonial systems and consider what accountability\, allyship\,\n    reconciliation\, and responsible practice require.\n\n\n  Featured Books and Dates\n\n\n  \n    \n      \n        Pass the Sage:\n          Stories from the Fire\, Teachings from the Smoke\n      \n    \n     — Tessa\n      Belanger(September 24\, October 20\, and November 3\, 2026)\n  \n  \n    \n      \n        The Serviceberry\n      \n    \n     — Robin Wall\n      Kimmerer(November 12 and November 19\, 2026)\n  \n  \n    \n      \n        Inner Winter\n      \n    \n     — Asha\n      Frost(December 8\, 2026\, with continuation in the New Year)\n  \n  \n    \n      \n        The Genocide Continues\n      \n    \n     — Karen\n      Stote(March 2027)\n  \n\n\n  Books are available\n    locally through Octopus Books and through other booksellers.\n\n\n  Series Audience:\n\nOASW members\, social workers\, social work students\, field\n  instructors\, educators\, community practitioners\, and others engaged in\n  decolonizing\, reconciliation\, social justice\, and accountable practice.\n\n  Overall Learning Objectives:\n\nParticipants will be invited to:\n\n  Reflect on social work’s implication in colonial systems and\n    ongoing responsibilities related to reconciliation.\n  Engage with Indigenous-authored and decolonizing texts in ways\n    that support humility\, accountability\, and practice change.\n  Explore how storytelling\, reciprocity\, rest\, collective care\, and\n    resistance to colonial violence can inform social work ethics and practice.\n  Consider concrete implications for documentation\, supervision\,\n    referrals\, advocacy\, education\, policy\, organizational culture\, and\n    community relationships.\n  Practice non-extractive listening and respectful engagement with\n    Indigenous authors\, storytellers\, speakers\, and community educators.\n\n \nNOTE ABOUT REGISTRATION QUESTIONS:\nOASW is committed to inclusion and promoting a diverse range of\n  identities\, experiences\, perspectives\, and voices across all areas of\n  the Association. As such\, the registration contains some optional\n  questions that are intended to assist us to better understand our\n  social work community and ensure that our work is reflective of the\n  diverse membership of OASW and our profession.
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ATTENDEE;CN=claire@oasw.org:mailto:claire@oasw.org
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261208T203000
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