Webinar
Integrating Universal Design and Experiential Learning to Foster Accessibility in Counselor Education
1.5 NBCC Continuing Education Units
This webinar will provide an overview of the disciplines of both embodied pedagogy and experiential learning (Ambuter, 2019; Morris & Bilich-Eric, 2017), defining and explaining how the two are both differentiated and linked.
Following this, Universal Design (UD; Burgstahler, 2020; DO-IT Center, n.d.) will be introduced as a method for augmenting both embodied pedagogies and experiential learning in order to encourage access for students living in diverse and oftentimes marginalized bodies. The presenters will discuss the workshop they offered at the 2023 ACES conference, where they gathered data from counselors, counselor educators, supervisors, and directors related to this topic using workshop-based data collection (Ørngreen & Levinsen, 2017). The results from this study included answers to questions around what students need in order for their bodies to be able to process and absorb information in the counselor education classroom, how educators and supervisors define an inclusive classroom, and practical strategies and interventions for increasing accessibility for diverse learners. From these evidence-based research findings, webinar participants will leave with a variety of practical tools and strategies for fostering accessible, embodied experiences in counselor education.
Date & Time
Friday, November 14, 2025 (90 minutes)
1:00 pm EST | 12:00 pm CST | 11:00 am MNT | 10:00 AM PST
Presenters
Mariah Meyer LeFeber, Ph.D., LPC, BC-DMT
Sarah M. Roundtree, Ph.D., CRC
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