Independent Study

Past Trainings and Independent Study Webinars

For licensed social workers in MN, up to 50% of CE hours each renewal period can be completed through independent study. "Independent study" (or "self-study") are CE activities that do not involve real-time interaction, such as recorded webinars. Learn more about Continuing Education Requirements on the MN BOSW website.

NASW-MN offers a variety of recorded webinars to help you earn your continuing education hours. Visit our online CE Social Work Institute, our NASW-MN Youtube Channel, and/or see below for our recent trainings for self-study opportunities!

Gettin’ By: How Poverty Changes the Brain, Which Changes Everything (1 CEU - Cultural Responsiveness, Ethics, or Macro)

A Wolf in Bears Clothing: Lesser Known Medical Conditions that Present as Common Mental Health Disorders (1 CEU - Clinical or Ethics)

The Impact of Trauma on Staff and Organizations (1 CEU - Supervision or Macro)

Naming the Invisible Load: Ethical Practice and the Unspoken Labor of Social Work- Where’s OSHA? (1 CEU - Ethics or Supervision)

One License, Many Doors: The Social Work Interstate Compact (1 CEU - Supervision)

Today’s Federal funding Landscape: What it Means for Minnesota and What Social Workers Need to Know (1 CEU - Supervision or Macro)

Deconstructing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Treat Racial Injury (1 CEU - Clinical, Cultural Responsiveness, or Ethics)

Macro Made Manageable: How Clinical Social Workers Can Drive Systems Change (1 CEU - Clinical, Ethics, Supervision, or Macro)

Roleplaying Tools for Difficult Conversations (1 CEU - Ethics)

Decolonizing Ethics in Social Work Practice (1 CEU - Cultural Responsiveness or Ethics)

Integration of Energy Healing into Psychotherapy (1 CEU - Clinical or Ethics)

Creative Community Building in Social Work (1 CEU - Cultural Responsiveness)

From Awareness to Action: Weathering, Structural Competency, and Black Women's Health Justice (1 CEU - Clinical, Cultural Responsiveness, or Ethics)

The Unfinished Business of Childhood: Tending to the Social Worker's Childhood Trauma Wounds (1 CEU - Clinical, Ethics, or Supervision)

Leveraging Project Management in Social Work (1 CEU - Ethics or Macro)

Clinical Considerations for Lberation: the Intersection of LGBTQIA+ Experience and Religious Trauma (1 CEU - Clinical, Cultural Responsiveness, or Ethics)

Social Workers: Defend, Uplift, Transform (Social Work Month 2026) (1 CEU - free)

2026 Social Work Legislative Launch (1 CEU - free)

2025 Minnesota Legislative Recap Session (1 CEU - free)

Effective Supervision Mini-Certification (6 CEUs)

2025 Social Work Legislative Launch (1.5 CEUs - free)

Supervision Refresh (5 CEUs - Supervision, up to 2 may be counted as Ethics)

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Live Webinars vs. Recorded Online Learning

The Minnesota Board of Social Work makes a distinction between how live webinars and recorded webinars can be counted towards continuing education hours for licensure renewal.

• Live, interactive webinars can be counted as regular CEUs.
• Recorded webinars must be counted as independent learning CEUs

This is purely informational. Please visit the MN Board of Social Work's website for the most current information about fulfilling licensure requirements.

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