About Us
What is the need for Reflective Groundings?
Those working in racial and health equity roles, such as Grant managers, Equity leads, Programme staff, Community practitioners and Leaders working in social justice contexts, navigate complex power dynamics, emotional labour and exposure to community trauma as part of their everyday work.
This includes holding difficult conversations, making high-stakes decisions and building relationships across difference and inequity. While reflective supervision is a core part of clinical and safeguarding practice within healthcare settings, it is largely absent within philanthropy and social justice spaces.
As a result, staff are often left to handle complexity on their own, or, worse, not at all. Over time, this can lead to burnout, reactive decision-making and strained relationships with partners and communities.
There is a clear need for structured spaces that support reflection, care, and a more grounded practice, which, in turn, seeks to improve outcomes for staff, communities, and systems at large.
We believe that:
Care is not an add-on; it is foundational to meaningful work
Reflection strengthens practice, rather than slowing it down
Sustainable impact requires emotionally supported practitioners
Our approach is grounded in lived experience, relational practice, and a commitment to equity.
Our Founder
Rianna Raymond-Williams brings experience across therapeutic practice, sexual and reproductive health and equity-focused grantmaking, with a focus on supporting reflective, care-centred approaches to practice.
Her work sits at the intersection of wellbeing, systems change, and social justice, drawing on a background in frontline health settings, where reflective supervision was essential for navigating complex, sensitive cases.