FOR SOCIAL WORKERS, THERAPISTS, EDUCATORS, ADVOCATES, HUMAN SERVICE PROFESSIONALS

We Don't Sanitize

The Truth.

Mainstream social work education was built to make institutions comfortable. Doin' The Work was built because that's not good enough.
We offer continuing education, a practitioner community, and a podcast for people asking harder questions about their practice, and looking for a space that takes those questions seriously.
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We Don't Sanitize

The Truth.

Mainstream social work education was built to make institutions comfortable. Doin' The Work was built because that's not good enough.
We offer continuing education, a practitioner community, and a podcast for people asking harder questions about their practice, and looking for a space that takes those questions seriously.
 Listen to the Podcast
 Join the Community

What Learning Here Looks Like

Learning with Doin' The Work is not only about adding techniques to an existing toolkit, it's about deepening the foundation so that the work you do is grounded, equitable, and generally aligned with the outcomes your clients and communities deserve.
You'll gain the clarity, confidence, and practical tools to:
Build stronger alliances with clients and communities through trust, humility, and genuine collaboration
See the full picture, understanding the systemic and contextual factors shaping the challenges people face, not just their individual circumstances
Design and deliver interventions that address root causes, promote healing, and support real empowerment
The result is work that is equitable, compassionate, and clear-eyed about how power, culture, and systems shape people's lives.

Continuing Education With Something To Say

Our courses are taught by practitioners, people who have worked inside institutions, with communities, and in conditions where the theory had to hold up. You're learning from someone who has been in the room, not just read about it.
Every course is built around the same core commitment: your practice should serve your clients' liberation, not the comfort of systems that were never designed with them in mind. We name power, privilege, and oppression clearly because if your training doesn't, it's teaching you to work inside the problem. 
Our goal is to promote frameworks rooted in justice, liberation, accountability, and healing.
All courses are ASWB ACE-approved, on-demand, and designed for social workers, therapists, counselors, educators, advocates, and human service professionals at any stage of their learning.

White Supremacy, White Privilege, Racism & Oppression in Social Work

An honest examination of white supremacy, racism, and oppression in social work—and what it means for your practice.
On-demand • 6.0 CE Credits • $150 •  ASWB ACE Approved

What People
Are Saying

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"This is the CEU we all need. Shimon and Charla are excellent facilitators of difficult conversations about racism, whiteness, and the impact of oppression on practice. This course allowed me to examine my White identity and deepen my critical pedagogy. The discussion sparked deep reflection and immediate action. Every social worker should take this course."
— Kim R., Participant
"The content centers lived experiences of marginalized identities and provides practical tools for engaging in social justice and liberation in daily Social Work practice. I learned more in this course than I did in my entire university experience with American and Social Work history. Accessible, relevant, and genuinely engaging."
— Kelley H., LMSW — Clinician & Professor
"I wish everyone in social work could take these classes. It has been a transformative experience, impacting how I show up in my clinical practice, in my community, and in my own life."
— Ann H., LCSW — Professor

Education That Matches Your Values

Anti-oppressive and liberatory practice isn't a checkbox or a moment of awareness. It's a continual process of learning, reflection, accountability, and returning to the work, and it deepens every time you engage.
Most professional training skips that part. It hands you frameworks without naming the worldviews those frameworks carry. Neutrality is a myth. Every theory, every model, every intervention comes with assumptions about power, culture, and who gets to define what healing looks like.
Doin' The Work names that honestly, because we believe clarity is an act of care. Our courses are taught by practitioners doing this work in real conditions, and they're designed to help you bring your values into your practice, not just your awareness.
Doin' The Work exists to educate, affirm, and stand beside justice-centered practitioners, without sanitizing the truth or asking them to shrink.
Doin' The Work exists to educate, affirm, and stand beside justice-centered practitioners, without sanitizing the truth or asking them to shrink.
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Found Us Through the Podcast? Here's What Comes Next.

The podcast brings you stories from practitioners the mainstream would rather ignore. The courses take you from listener to practitioner, giving you the frameworks, the CE credits, and the peer community to keep doing the work in your own context.
You already know what's wrong. The courses are where you build what comes next.

A Community for People Doin' The Work

Justice-centered practice doesn't happen in isolation. It happens when practitioners can think out loud, challenge their assumptions, and be held with honesty and care by people who understand the terrain.
That's what this community is built for.
Doin' The Work is an online learning community where social workers, therapists, educators, and advocates come together to stay current, to connect, and to keep growing in the work. You bring your experience. Others bring theirs. The conversation is honest and the space is grounded in shared values.
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When you join, you get:
  • Access to the discussion community for ongoing conversation
  • Peer connection with practitioners doing justice-centered work
  • Updates about new courses, podcast episodes, and events
It's currently free to join. The community gets richer the more people bring their real experience to it.

Stay In The Know

Join our email list and you'll get our newsletter (In The Know), new podcast episode announcements, course releases, and early access when new offerings drop. No noise. Just the work.

Stay In The Know

Join our email list and you'll get our newsletter (In The Know), new podcast episode announcements, course releases, and early access when new offerings drop. No noise. Just the work.

Bringing This Training to Your Team?

If your organization is looking to provide staff with continuing education rooted in justice-based, anti-oppressive, and liberatory practice, we'd love to talk.
We work with nonprofits, agencies, and human service organizations at various scales. Browse our CE course offerings or reach out directly to talk about what works for your team.
Are you a school of social work or university program?

Start Where You Are.

Some people come to Doin' The Work because they've been doing this analysis for years and want a place that keeps up with them. Others are earlier in the process, curious, asking harder questions about their practice, looking for education that takes those questions seriously.
All of it is welcome here. The work deepens every time we return to it.
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