{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/65aef17a36e769001501499d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"744: Stephen Broyles, part 1: What Is Social Work and How Does It Relate to Leadership and Action?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1705963882769-cfbfffac7021efc27edfb69aebe62ed8.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Regular listeners and readers of my blog will know my <a href=\"https://spodekleadership.com/workshop/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sustainability leadership workshops</a> and one of the participants of the first, Evelyn (she's in the video on that link). After being the teaching assistant for a couple cohorts, she is leading this winter's session.</p><p>Often when I talked to her about leadership, she would comment, \"We do that in social work too, but we call it\" . . . and she'd mention a practice she was learning while getting her Masters in Social Work at Howard University. I'd heard of social work, but didn't know what people in the field did.</p><p>She put me in touch with one of her professors, Stephen. We had a great conversation talking about the overlap between leadership and social work, which led me to invite him on the podcast. Here he speaks about</p><ul><li>Social work</li><li>The overlap of personal action and change with systemic change</li><li>Influencing without authority,</li><li>The need to live the values you want to evoke in others</li><li>The need for experience where you want to influence</li></ul><p>and more.</p><p>Doing the Spodek Method, he picked up on it and took great interest, as I read, seeing its practicality in and applicability in social work.</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://profiles.howard.edu/stephen-broyles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen's profile page</a> at Howard University</li></ul>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}