Introducing
A New Workbook for Infant and
Early Childhood Mental Health Professionals
My Hero’s Journey
This workbook…
gently provides a space, place and time for deep self-reflection and growth for anti-racist champions for babies and their caregivers. We offer a distinct approach to reflective practice through a racialized lens centered on the tough topics of culture, identity, race, racism, power, and privilege. The content of My Hero's Journey Workbook offers the reader structured worksheets, self-care experientials, journaling prompts, and reflective practices to untangle their own multicultural identities, unpack the impact on relationships, look backwards and forwards, take accountability, and stock up on rest, care, and resources for the continued long journey of this work.
The Authors
Marva L. Lewis
PH.D, IMHM-E®
Samantha S. Colson
MSW, MS, IMH-E®
Lanh T. Durlak
LMHC, NCC, IMH-E®
Megan M. Smith
LCAT, LPC, MT-BC, IMHM-E®
“Self awareness leads to better service for families”
–Diversity Informed Tenets for work with Infants, Children, and Families
Workbook Themes:
✔ Culturally-centered relationship-based care
✔ Intergenerational trauma
✔ Racialized reflective models
✔ Principles for anti-racist infant mental health practice
✔ Self-care experientials
How do you build the capacity and stamina to be an anti-racist champion for the most vulnerable?
We often get lost or fatigued along the pathway of advocacy, human service, and support for others. Our workbook gently guides you through a process of self-reflection towards providing better services for children & families while navigating broken systems.
Reflective Practice Through a Racialized Lens invites you on a bold journey of intentional and courageous love. Caring for a baby is one of the most sacred and complicated experiences we can engage in, which inevitably brings up our unresolved cultural traumas, underexplored idealism, and audacious hopes for a better world. This book will help you consciously process cultural wounds,bring nuance to your ideas, and arm you with the tools you need to be an anti-racist caregiver.
Dr. Dana E. Crawford
Crawford Bias Reduction Theory & Training