The Practitioner's Mirror
Dreamers and Builders of the Future — where you stand, what you're building toward, and where you'll act.
Part One
Who's actually in your life
No wrong answers — just your own honest numbers, reflected back plainly.
Friends of a different race or ethnicity than yours
Neighbors of a different race or ethnicity
Roughly what share of your social feed is a different race or ethnicity than yours?
Times in the past year you've been in the home of someone of a different race
Times someone of a different race has been in your home
At work, how many different races are represented among your managers/leaders?
Part Two
Where you stand
For each identity that applies to you: does it tend to sit in a privileged or marginalized position in most rooms you work in, and is it front-of-mind for you day to day? Not sure on one? Say so — that's a real answer, not a gap to fill in. Skip anything you'd rather leave blank entirely.
This stays private to you alone — never visible to your org, never used for HR, hiring, or any legal purpose, never exported. Answering is entirely optional, category by category.
How do your salient identities shape your work with others?
How do your nonsalient identities shape your work with others?
Part Three
Your growth edges
Rate your own current confidence in each domain — separately for when you're working with people more privileged than you in a given context, and people more marginalized.
Part Four
Where you'll act
Name one issue or growth edge you care about. Mark where in your own sphere of influence you're already active, and write one concrete next step.
The issue or growth edge
A concrete next step, for one sphere
Your Integrated Picture
Putting it together
This updates as you fill in the parts above. It's here to connect the dots across your own answers — not to summarize them back at you, and not a score.
Inspired by Ratts (2017), "Charting the Center and the Margins" (Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 39(2), 87–103), the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, and the Racial Equity Coalition's proximity self-audit — original prompts written for this reflection, not a reproduction of any published form.