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Live, online via Zoom
Date: Saturday, 22 August 2026 / 10:00 am–5:00 pm Eastern
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The Cost of Care is a live, online, scenario-based seminar for educators who work with young people inside and outside of schools. Through guided reflection, discussion, writing, practical scenarios, and attorney Q&A, participants will examine care, power, privacy, disclosure, adult responsibility, and the boundary moments that shape ethical relationships with young people.
The seminar treats boundaries as ethical practices of care, accountability, embodied self-awareness, and social change.
Facilitated by Kamauru Johnson, PhD, Director of Counseling Support Services at Rye Country Day School, and Lisa Arrastia, PhD, Founding Director of The Ed Factory.
Special Guest: Attorney Jumoke Johnson, JD.
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This seminar is for educators and others who work with young people inside and outside of schools, including teachers, counselors, social workers, youth workers, mentors, coaches, program staff, school leaders, and nonprofit staff.
It is useful for undergraduate and graduate teaching and social work licensure students, early-career teachers, experienced educators, and program leaders who want to think more clearly about care, closeness, communication, power, privacy, legal responsibility, and ethical relationships with young people.
Tuition supports seminar design and facilitation, course materials, attorney Q&A, and the sustained preparation required for reflective writing, discussion, and careful engagement with participants’ questions and boundary scenarios.
→ Standard tuition: $125
→ Fellowship access: Full and partial fellowships will be offered by application (see below). A Full fellowship covers all tuition. Partial fellowship tuition is $60.
Fellowship applications are due: Friday, 10 August 2026, by 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Decisions will be emailed by 16 August.
Complete a fellowship application by 10 August, 2026, 11:59 p.m. Eastern.
Additional reduced-rate access may be available when cost is a barrier. Please contact us to discuss options.
The Ed Factory tuition does not include graduate-level extension credit through our partner university or any required books participants may need to purchase separately.
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Readings:
Required readings may be provided electronically to participants before the workshop. We recommend reading the texts below before or after the workshop:
Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger (Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 2020).
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement (Chico, AK Press, 2019).
Cristien Storm, Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2018).
Tools + Space:
Participants will also need:
A quiet place to join the seminar on Zoom
A smartphone with basic voice and video recording capability
Access to Google Drive
A laptop or desktop computer
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This course is eligible for one (1) graduate-level extension credit for a separate $79 fee paid directly to the University of San Diego. A transcript will be provided by USD upon successful completion of the seminar. Credits are applicable toward license renewal, professional development hours, salary advancement, and credentialing. Credit is optional and separate from seminar tuition. Participants are responsible for confirming acceptance of credit with their employer or institution. Learn more here.
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- I believe Lisa always goes the extra mile for participants. Watching her build deep relationships in the classroom helped us understand that people are more than just the surface. She leads by example: thank you for practicing what you preach.
- There is a way to have fun, meet your students ’ needs, meet the standards, and have boundaries all at once.
- Having Kamauru co-facilitate our discussion on boundaries was definitely a wonderful experience for me. I feel like I had a good idea of where professional boundaries should lie, but I hadn’t really considered that what seems strange in some contexts might not be crossing a line in others, and that it’s not always as black-and-white as ‘this is wrong, this is correct.’
Live, online via Zoom
Date: Saturday, 22 August 2026 / 10:00 am–5:00 pm Eastern
—
The Cost of Care is a live, online, scenario-based seminar for educators who work with young people inside and outside of schools. Through guided reflection, discussion, writing, practical scenarios, and attorney Q&A, participants will examine care, power, privacy, disclosure, adult responsibility, and the boundary moments that shape ethical relationships with young people.
The seminar treats boundaries as ethical practices of care, accountability, embodied self-awareness, and social change.
Facilitated by Kamauru Johnson, PhD, Director of Counseling Support Services at Rye Country Day School, and Lisa Arrastia, PhD, Founding Director of The Ed Factory.
Special Guest: Attorney Jumoke Johnson, JD.
—
This seminar is for educators and others who work with young people inside and outside of schools, including teachers, counselors, social workers, youth workers, mentors, coaches, program staff, school leaders, and nonprofit staff.
It is useful for undergraduate and graduate teaching and social work licensure students, early-career teachers, experienced educators, and program leaders who want to think more clearly about care, closeness, communication, power, privacy, legal responsibility, and ethical relationships with young people.
Tuition supports seminar design and facilitation, course materials, attorney Q&A, and the sustained preparation required for reflective writing, discussion, and careful engagement with participants’ questions and boundary scenarios.
→ Standard tuition: $125
→ Fellowship access: Full and partial fellowships will be offered by application (see below). A Full fellowship covers all tuition. Partial fellowship tuition is $60.
Fellowship applications are due: Friday, 10 August 2026, by 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Decisions will be emailed by 16 August.
Complete a fellowship application by 10 August, 2026, 11:59 p.m. Eastern.
Additional reduced-rate access may be available when cost is a barrier. Please contact us to discuss options.
The Ed Factory tuition does not include graduate-level extension credit through our partner university or any required books participants may need to purchase separately.
—
Readings:
Required readings may be provided electronically to participants before the workshop. We recommend reading the texts below before or after the workshop:
Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger (Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 2020).
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement (Chico, AK Press, 2019).
Cristien Storm, Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2018).
Tools + Space:
Participants will also need:
A quiet place to join the seminar on Zoom
A smartphone with basic voice and video recording capability
Access to Google Drive
A laptop or desktop computer
—
This course is eligible for one (1) graduate-level extension credit for a separate $79 fee paid directly to the University of San Diego. A transcript will be provided by USD upon successful completion of the seminar. Credits are applicable toward license renewal, professional development hours, salary advancement, and credentialing. Credit is optional and separate from seminar tuition. Participants are responsible for confirming acceptance of credit with their employer or institution. Learn more here.
—
- I believe Lisa always goes the extra mile for participants. Watching her build deep relationships in the classroom helped us understand that people are more than just the surface. She leads by example: thank you for practicing what you preach.
- There is a way to have fun, meet your students ’ needs, meet the standards, and have boundaries all at once.
- Having Kamauru co-facilitate our discussion on boundaries was definitely a wonderful experience for me. I feel like I had a good idea of where professional boundaries should lie, but I hadn’t really considered that what seems strange in some contexts might not be crossing a line in others, and that it’s not always as black-and-white as ‘this is wrong, this is correct.’
