Continuing Education
November 20
You are invited to a…
Nazareth University Workshop:
"Anti Oppressive Supervision"
Date: Thursday November 20, 2025
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where: Online
Please note the Zoom link will be emailed to you on November 19th
Cost:
Professionals $30.00
Current Nazareth 2025-2026 Field Instructors, Nazareth Faculty, Nazareth Students, Nazareth Itinerants $5.00
Registration: Register by November 17
Continuing Education: 2 CEU Contact Hours NYS SW #0482
Course Instructor: Fatima Clarke Banister, LCSW, MPA
Instructor Bio:
Fatima Banister is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Nazareth University and a Doctoral Student at Delaware State University. She is also the founder and owner of Path of Discovery Counseling Services, a private group practice committed to providing anti-oppressive clinical supervision and culturally responsive mental health care. At Nazareth, she teaches courses on cultural humility, mental health, and social justice, integrating scholarship, pedagogy, and practice to prepare students for inclusive and liberatory practice. Her work extends into writing, consulting, and speaking, where she uplifts womanist values, dismantles hierarchies, and advances equity in mental health care and higher education.
Course Description:
This continuing education opportunity focuses on highlighting anti oppressive supervision models that foster more equitable and collaborative working relationships between supervisors and prelicensed professionals. Such models challenge supervisors to examine their own power, privilege, and social identities that shape the relationships between their supervisees, while also learning approaches to empower supervisees personally and professionally.
Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to...
1. Define the core principles of anti-oppressive supervision.
2. Identify how power, privilege, and social identities influence the supervisory relationship.
3. Apply strategies that foster equitable and collaborative supervision with prelicensed professionals.
4. Integrate culturally responsive and liberatory frameworks into their own supervisory practice
5. Evaluate supervision practices for alignment with anti-oppressive values.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Statements of Relationship:
Nazareth University is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0482.
