Snapshots: NASW16 and Transformations
When I told FD that I wanted to go to Washington DC for the annual National Association of Social Workers (NASW) conference , he surprised me and said, "I haven't been to DC." So let's go. NASW annual conference 2016 in DC (1) Going it Alone Many of us don't like attending conferences by ourselves, and being one of this population, I dreaded walking into the enormous conference auditorium (the Marriott Wardman Park ballroom) alone. FD, a medical doctor, not a social worker, would be roaming the Holocaust Museum by now, fearless, yet shaken. Considering the space between workshop participants in the auditorium, three to four seats apart, it seemed that hundreds attended alone, like me. And we have to do what we have to do, most of us armed with a truckload of CBT exercises to power through that test. A few deep breaths, a critical eye at faces for signs of friendliness, and one can and will survive. (2) Opening Remarks Darrell Wheeler , the preside...