One of these roles is to be a facilitator or to be involved in bringing groups of people together for a variety of purposes including community development, self-advocacy , political organization and policy change. Social workers are involved as group therapists and work group leaders. The second example of relating material in class is the discussion of diversity. I won't even list courses that address diversity because otherwise I would list every single social work and psychology course I've ever taken in the social work program. Every class talks about this because it is extremely important to take diversity into account when working in this profession with clients. The entire second day of training was dedicated to learning about diversity. We created a chart with triangles and each had a pair of triangles, one pointing up and one pointing down. In the one facing up we put the "normalized" classification in that triangle and the "non-normal" classification in the other triangle facing down. For example, white, male, heterosexual, middle class and up, and so on were in the upward-pointing triangles, while all other races, women, LGBT, lower class, and so on were in the downward-pointing triangle. I know, it's complicated. We then looked at each triangle and discussed the barriers and strength each category may or may not have in achieving