Do you work with young children ages birth to five?
Do you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC)?
WHAT IS REVOLUTIONARY REFLECTIVE PRACTICE?
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Reflective practice, at its core, is about pausing to examine our experiences in ways that allow for growth and learning to better serve families. Not having the time and ability to pause, question, and reflect is what allows the status quo to continue. Inequities in policies and practices are hard-baked in professional cultures that refuse to slow down and build critical consciousness about the broader conditions that maintain disparities in outcomes for children and families through the generations.
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Revolutionary Reflective Practice (RRP) is a collective strategy for identifying and addressing the ways in which historical and current conditions impact entire communities. RRP comes from a legacy of healing justice, anti-racist, and decolonial sociopolitical work. Specifically, RRP creates conditions to unearth unmetabolized legacies of white supremacy culture and support providers in finding innovative ways to integrate our social justice values with our roles as early childhood practitioners.
The distinction and uniqueness of this program lies in the focus on revolutionary reflective practice, rather than traditional reflective practice, which moves away from focusing on the individual towards focusing on the collective. Every part of this program, from the organizing team to the curriculum, uses a different way of doing and being so that participants can truly be in a space where joyful and painful emotions, thoughts, and experiences can be seen, held, and ultimately transformed.
Our Program
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A community of 50 providers working in the prenatal-five field across the nation to build collective power and radically imagine together to transform ourselves and the field
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Community groups include 2-8 providers from a shared community
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Participants attend virtual sessions and an in-person1.5 day retreat
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Embedded small reflective groups with highly skilled facilitators working at the intersection of infant-family and early childhood mental health and social justice
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Community teams radically imagine hopes and desires for the future and then begin implementing their vision for themselves, their agencies or their communities.
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"I genuinely feel less alone. It is so easy to feel like our struggles are singular, like we are in our own little bubble struggling. Hearing the stories and struggles of others helps me feel like I'm not alone and that there is something to be done about all the inequalities that we face."
- Participants from 2023 Revolutionary Reflective Practice Cohort
"BIPOC practitioners need spaces that focus on their self-care.. so that they can continue to serve their communities without burning out."
CONNECT WITH US
We would love to connect with anyone who wants to do revolutionary reflective practice work locally or equity-centered professional development. We are all needed in this work. Whether you are a BIPOC provider who needs this space in order to reclaim your power, practice hope, and engage in healing to support children and families, or an ally thinking about what you can do to create equity-centered spaces where all of us can work together and move forward, or perhaps a leader or funder who can help us continue this work or grow it into your community, connect with us!
Contact Us
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. You can use this form or email us at:
Monica Mathur-Kalluri, Project Director
Vy Tran, Project Lead
Joanna Seow, Project Coordinator
WestEd Early Childhood Intervention, Mental Health and Inclusion
