Racialized Reflective Practice: Cultivating Reflective Leaders of Anti-racist Child-serving Professionals and Systems

The focus of our experiential workshop explores the internal processes of self-reflection, particularly around race, culture, and location of self. Presenters will guide participants through racialized reflective practice experientials as described in their workbook “Reflective Practice through a Racialized Lens: My Hero’s Journey”. Participants will practice with culturally sensitive, relationship-based tools specific to group facilitation to gain the skills to lead others in racialized self-reflection in child and family-serving systems.

This 2 CE online event is offered by the LCAT Advocacy Coalition as a fundraiser for ongoing legislative advocacy in New York State to increase access to the creative arts therapists and to protect the rights of current clients who depend on insurance to access these therapies.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply concepts of critical self-reflection, judicious self-disclosure, and privileged/subjugated self through racialized reflective practice to improve services for children and families.
• Integrate concepts of the Diversity Informed Infant Mental Health Tenets into leading reflective practice, increasing access to culturally grounded self-care and reflective practices to unearth inherent resilience.

Presenter: Megan Smith, LCAT, LPC, MT-BC

Megan is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Board Certified Music Therapist, and Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Clinical Mentor. She supports workforce development through reflective supervision, training, and consultation and maintains a private practice focused on music psychotherapy, adults with childhood and attachment trauma, and child-parent psychotherapy. racializedreflectivepractice.com

CEs are available for NYS LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, and Licensed Psychologists. New York Creative Arts Therapists, PLLC, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board as a provider for licensed social workers #0275, licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0026, licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0065. LMFT and Licensed Psychologists.