Course

Cultivating Cultural Humility (Non-CE)

Starts Nov 7, 2025

$25 Enroll

Full course description

Overview

The Cultivating Cultural Humility workshop is designed to deepen participants’ understanding of cultural humility as a lifelong, reflective practice essential for inclusive and equitable professional engagement. Through interactive discussions, identity mapping, and reflective exercises, the workshop explores the complexities of culture, race, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation.

Covers the cultural competency requirement for licensure (LCSW, LSW, LCPC, LPC) in the state of Illinois.

Objectives

  1. Apply culturally responsive practices in educational and professional settings
  2. Engage in reflective practice to improve cultural awareness and responsiveness
  3. Model humility by acknowledging limitations and fostering open dialogue
  4. Promote inclusive environments through language access, trauma-informed pedagogy, and diverse curricula

Registration and CE Information

  • Register here for Non-CE version.
  • Please see the CE version if you do need CEs
  • The live webinar will be held November 7, 2025, from 9:00am - 12:00pm
  • Once registered, you will be able to access the course site to complete the Zoom registration to receive the link for the webinar.

Presenter: Giesela Grumbach

Giesela Grumbach received her Master’s degree in Social Work from Loyola University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Grumbach also holds a two-year postgraduate certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Family Institute at Northwestern University.

Dr. Grumbach believes that research informs practice as practice informs research; it is a reciprocal relationship. Her work experience shapes her interests in many ways. Prior to her career in academia, she worked in medical and mental health settings, schools, and as a private practitioner/mitigation specialist. These varied experiences provide her with a breadth of knowledge that, in turn, informs her teaching and leadership at GSU.

Dr. Grumbach began working for GSU as an adjunct in 2000 and sat on the social work advisory board, then became a full-time lecturer in 2011, the Director of Field Education in 2013, Assistant Professor in 2015, Associate Professor in 2021, and now the Chair of the Social Work Department as of December 2023.