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ABACLive Webinar with Julia Fiebig, PhD, BCBA-D
September 30, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Presented through the ABACLive Cambridge Center Series. Helping those who help others, one live webinar at a time.
Julia Fiebig, PhD, BCBA-D, presents “Expanding the Behavior Analyst’s Repertoire: Sustainability and Environmental Justice”
Friday, September 30, 2022
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Eastern/NY)
This event is FREE for the general public.* Or available for a discounted price with 3 BACB® Learning CEUs.
Abstract
From the individual to industry level, every job and work setting provides an opportunity to improve human behavior and interactions to build more sustainable and equitable communities. In this 3-hour event, CCBS Advisor, Dr. Julia H. Fiebig will provide behavior analysts and students of behavior analysis with an overview of critical issues in sustainability and how behavioral science is an important contributor to moving towards more sustainable communities. In addition to providing an overview of the work and the research being done in this area and the opportunities we can create in collaboration with other professionals, Dr. Fiebig will discuss how an understanding of language as it relates to values is critical to building cooperative contexts and communication around issues of sustainability.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this event, participants should be able to:
- Identify low impact and high impact behavior as it relates to sustainability
- Identify core issues that are barriers to sustainability
- Identify opportunities to collaborate on climate change
- Identify how speaker listener behavior influences the narrative around the culture of climate change
Presenter Bio:
Julia Fiebig, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is an assistant teaching professor at Ball State University in the applied behavior analysis program. She is from Germany and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. A practicing behavior analyst for over twenty years, she has a range of experience working as a consultant and educator with multi-disciplinary teams in clinical, educational, and other non-profit and private organizations. She has served on task forces for ABAI and ACBS and currently serves on the board of the Behavior Analysis for Sustainable Societies special interest group and ABAI’s Practice Board. Julia is one of the directors of Luethi-Peterson Camps, a non-profit volunteer organization facilitating international summer camps, to foster good human relations and healthy community by bringing staff and children from various backgrounds together. A primary emphasis of her work is helping leaders and organizations cultivate values-informed, consensus-building, prosocial practices and sustainable systems. She is dedicated to work on issues of environmental justice and contributing to wider application and dissemination of a compassionate behavior science.
*This event is FREE for the general public. For those that want a certificate of completion for continuing education credits please purchase the discounted CEs. This event is being offered at the discounted ABACLive Cambridge Center Series price for CEUs (Learning). (Register on ABAC website) Behavior Analysts may earn continuing education for viewing the live event or recording.Behavior Analysts: 3 CEUs (Learning) (Visit ABAC website for complete information.)
The ABACLive Cambridge Center Series of webinars are presented by Board of Directors, Trustees, Advisors, Senior Fellows of the prestigious Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
The ABACLive Cambridge Center Series is the result of a collaboration between The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (CCBS) and The Applied Behavior Analysis Center, Inc (ABAC) designed to make behavioral health education accessible to the global community of professionals working to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
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