COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this immersive, advanced workshop, participants will explore how expert debriefers think, reflect, and adapt in complex learning situations. Through interactive discussion, guided reflection, and practice with challenging debriefing scenarios, participants will examine how learner cognition, identity, emotions, and prior experiences, as well as their own assumptions and implicit biases, shape the debriefing process. Participants will practice intentional, learner-centered strategies for navigating difficult feedback, maintaining psychological safety, fostering meaningful reflection, and adapting their approach in the moment.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Develop a shared mental model of expert debriefing as an adaptive, learner-centered process.
- Recognize how their own assumptions, attention, emotions, and implicit biases influence debriefing conversations.
- Apply strategies that foster reflection, psychological safety, perspective-taking, and meaningful learning.
- Navigate challenging debriefing situations, including those involving identity, bias, and difficult feedback, with curiosity, adaptability, and intentionality.
- Create a personal action plan to strengthen their debriefing practice through ongoing self-reflection and feedback.
Faculty: TBD
Date: Friday, September 11, 2026 / Time: 8:00 am -3:30 pm
Location: Virtual
Cost: $0 WSSA Members; $0 Non-WSSA Members / 7.5 CEs
Refund Policy: Courses may be cancelled by WSSA prior to the first day of class due to a variety of situations. Notice will be given as far in advance as possible. In cases where WSSA cancels a course, a full refund will be given back to the payor. Participants may also cancel their registration prior to the start of the class and request a refund for courses they have paid for. Refunds will be processed in accordance with the following schedule:
- Cancellation 14 days prior to the first day of class: 100% of the course fee will be refunded minus a $10 administrative fee
- Cancellation fewer than 14 days before the first day of class or a no-show: No refund will be given
BRN Provider Number: 14888