Addressing Social Devaluation: The Importance of Valued Social Roles

Addressing Social Devaluation: The Importance of Valued Social Roles

Presented by members of the Southern Ontario Training Group (SOTG), sponsored by Durham Family Resources

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 from 9:00am - 5:00pm (registration and coffee begining at 8:30am)

The Gathering Place at Durham Family Resources

20-850 King Street West, Oshawa

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For many, this workshop will present a new way of understanding the lives of marginalized people. Social devaluation is presented as the crucial problem and then this workshop looks at some of the wounding experiences that fill lives and the impact these experiences have. With this new understanding, workshop participants typically start to ask “what should I do?” Participants will be introduced to social roles and their influence and how helping devalued people to fill valued social roles is a useful means to address social devaluation. Come prepared to listen, take notes, frame and discuss your questions. Also come prepared to think about the devalued people you know, their life experiences, and the social roles they fill in life.

Cost and Format

Workshop Fee: $100 (limited subsidies are available, please enquire) Please e-transfer payment to: SOTGregistration@dafrs.com

Workshop Format: Lecture (with extensive use of slides), and discussion.

Workshop Purpose and Content

This introductory session is designed to give participants a brief introduction to a theoretical perspective, Social Role Valorization (SRV), developed by Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger. SRV is a powerful theory about the relationship between the way people are perceived by others and the way they are treated in society. SRV has much to say about devaluation and how to address it. The workshop explores the universality of devaluation, the disadvantage experienced by those who are devalued, the process by which devaluation occurs, and how devaluation might be addressed. The concepts that are discussed are relevant to all those who are devalued, regardless of the circumstances that have led to that devaluation. While this day cannot provide the kind of comprehensive overview of SRV that one receives in the full four-day SRV workshops that the SOTG offers, we are confident that you will find the content of this workshop thought provoking and useful.