Inner Field Trip®
Helping Highly Sensitive, Deep Feeling, Neurodivergent People Explore Unconscious Biases
Order the Inner Field Trip® Workbook
Based on mental wellness advocate and writer Leesa Renée Hall's longstanding work, Inner Field Trip provides a user-friendly, nonjudgmental, and introspective template for exploring our inner biases about race and other forms of inequity. The cornerstone of Hall's model involves confronting one's "Inner Oppressor."
The Inner Oppressor is a manifestation of internalized cultural messages that drive us to judge others but also works to sabotage our own needs. Expressive art activities and self-reflective journaling prompts in the workbook help you "meet" your Inner Oppressor while accessing your innermost trail. The 30-day program in workbook form takes readers—who become active participants in the experience—on a deep dive from which they will emerge changed.
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Click Here to Order 1, 2 or More CopiesHere are 6 reasons why you should purchase 1, 2, or more copies of the Inner Field Trip® workbook
Evidence Based Approach
Just under 300 journaling prompts and 40 expressive art activities were tested and refined amongst several cohorts since 2015. The workbook contains quotes and case studies from people, just like you, who needed a sustainable way to go on a self-exploration.
Authority on Self-Reflection
The author is a counselling psychology graduate student studying to become a therapist. Her work as a mental wellness advocate was pushed into the limelight when a blog post containing nine writing prompts went viral in 2017. She has a large social media platform and a highly engaged membership community.
Measurable Journey to Healing
Readers will do one chapter a day over 30-days. Each chapter begins with an overview of the theme followed by a 15-minute expressive arts activity and 15-minutes of journaling. A mood tracker is included so readers can spot patterns and check their progress.
Draw Your Inner Oppressor
It can be hard to admit that you hold unconscious biases about other people’s social, ethnic, biological, or behavioral identities. The workbook contains instructions on how to doodle or draw your Inner Oppressor helping you express complex emotions using colors, shapes, symbols, and images.
Self-Reflection is Direct Action
Not everyone can attend a march, sit-in, or other forms of visible protests. Quieter forms of direct action, such as self-reflection and self-inquiry, matter as well. Being introspective is a form of gentle protest because you’re prioritizing healing over urgency, rugged individualism, and other damaging traits of the dominant culture.
Become a Better Ancestor
Focusing on becoming an ally is a noble cause. Yet, allies are transactional, time-limited, and present-focused. Becoming a better ancestor helps us develop what the Iroquois nation calls 7th generation thinking. There are four ancestors you can become, even if you’re childfree, and you will choose one based on the guidance in the workbook.
Praise for Inner Field Trip
Through engaging and thoughtful activities, Inner Field Trip reminds us that a life of sustainable advocacy isn’t found in sprinting from action to action, but by intentionally journeying inward and developing a lifestyle of both dismantling and discovering. The pace of the news cycle tells us that advocacy must be frantic and immediate. Leesa Renée Hall draws us into the slow and steady work that transforms the world around us– starting from within us.”
Inner Field Trip is the practical, step by step, day by day, beautifully guided framework that should be required not just reading, but DOING, for everyone serious about their justice advocacy. Leesa has so wisely and generously created activities that are multi-layered, keeping us thoughtful, engaged and present without getting lost. Self examination meets the embodied traveler who is ready to heal, I encourage all people wanting to make a difference in the world to first go on this personal liberation journey with The Inner Field Trip.”
In a time when many hunger for more equality and justice, Leesa Renee Hall has given us an incredible gift. She shows us how to leverage the tools of journaling and self-awareness to dismantle unconscious bias and racism. Inner Field Trip is a thought-provoking workbook designed to guide you through this transformative journey. With Leesa’s insightful and compassionate guidance, you’ll embark on a transformational exploration of your beliefs, experiences, and perspectives. This workbook provides a safe and structured space to uncover deep-seated prejudices and encourage self-reflection. I highly recommend this to anyone with a commitment to actively dismantling the roots of bias in your own life and the world around you.”
The Inner Field Trip workbook is restorative open heart surgery for those who dream of a more equitable world — and leave it to Leesa Renée Hall to make the entire procedure accessible, creative, holistic, and even fun! Inner Field Trip is for justice advocates who are awakening to the ways that the dominant culture and colonialism have ravaged their hearts, beliefs, and practices, and who desire interior transformation so that they can more effectively participate in societal healing. Expertly combining heart-stopping insights with supportive, step-by-step practices, Hall wisely puts the surgeon’s scalpel in the reader’s hand, affirming each individual’s innate ability to heal themselves and empowering us all to co-create the world we long to inhabit.”
Through Inner Field Trip, Leesa Renée Hall extends a gentle and empathetic guide to self-discovery, prompting us to explore how our experiences have shaped our past and present selves and our roles in society. With compassion and intentionality, Hall helps us navigate our personal histories. It’s more than just a book; it’s a potent tool for healing, transformation, and liberation. Through its pages, we embark on a transformative journey of self-awareness, making conscious choices aligned with our true selves. Hall’s work fosters deeper understanding and positive contributions to individual lives and the broader community, serving as a catalyst for change.”
Leesa Renée Hall’s Inner Field Trip dares to break from convention—in a world of performative activism that tends toward telling over showing (and often re-entrenches the very dominant culture thinking we’re trying to dismantle through specialness, perfectionism, saviorism, performativism). Inner Field Trip is a process that focuses on the inner work needed to actually impact systems of oppression. It’s a quiet and personal and challenging process you don’t get cookies for, and that’s why it matters so very much. Hall’s power is in her open-hearted and deliberate approach that keeps as its mantle what is possible for all of us.”
Leesa Renée Hall’s Inner Field Trip is an encouraging and necessary guide for internal transformation, illuminating a path toward healing ourselves and the world sickened by systems of oppression. Hall does a phenomenal job making the inner work of social justice accessible without losing sight of the broader social and historical context.”
Leesa Renée Hall takes us on a deep excavation into the parts of us that need reconciliation, sustainable liberation, and generational healing. She guides us through the necessary digging work that drives true accountability and action for a more just world. Her gentle approach is the compass we all need to release internalized ideas that harm us and others. This book is a true treasure.”
The Inner Field Trip workbook feels like an inner balm, consensual hug, and journal entry mixed with the glee of childhood books where we get to be the star of a story. We are the lucky ones that get to dig into the goodness Leesa Renée Hall has structured for us. From embodying your ancestor-ness to your identities to the supplies needed – this workbook is soothing and brilliant.”
Inner Field Trip invites us to go inward to meet parts of ourselves we rejected and relegated to the realm of not me because we perceived them as unacceptable and therefore a threat to our belonging. Inner Field Trip will bring this shadow self out of hiding, making us less susceptible of projecting it onto the other. This is the only way to create a better world for all. Thank you, Leesa Renée Hall, for your courage and dedication to this journey.”
In a world steeped in urgency, this book is a breath of fresh air. Inner Field Trip calls us into a journey of reflection, inviting us all to be better ancestors. Through Leesa’s words, we are invited to face our inherent biases, transform them from the inside out, and move towards sustainable change. This book is a catalyst for these times – profound, moving and rooted in care.”
A rigorously gentle and comprehensive guide to explore your inner landscape of unconscious biases. Leesa Renée Hall guides readers on a worthwhile quest to find not only their own freedom, but collective liberation for us all. Through helping us meet and understand our Inner Oppressor, she helps us heal our humanity. Combining the powerfully creative tools of journaling and expressive arts, the Inner Field Trip is a must have book for anyone who wants to become a good ancestor. Carry it with you wherever you go.”
Table of Contents + Introduction
Here is a sample of the workbook to whet your appetite. Best viewed on a desktop or laptop computer.
Meet the Author
Leesa Renée Hall is a mental health advocate, researcher, and founder of Inner Field Trip®, a community helping Highly Sensitive, Highly Perceptive, Deep Feeling and Neurodivergent people explore unconscious biases so they protect their energy, align with justice, and become better ancestors. After a blog post she authored went viral, Leesa left an award-winning career in technology to focus on her passion – studying human behavior.
As a counseling psychology graduate student who is studying to become a licensed therapist, Leesa uses evidence based methods, such as play, music, expressive arts, and self-reflective journaling to help her clients meet their Inner Oppressor so they decolonize, deprogram, and deconstruct while enhancing their self-awareness and self-compassion. She has a large social media platform, a highly engaged membership community, and an email list containing thousands of subscribers. Her advice has been featured in The Guardian and American Express OPEN, along with television, radio and podcast appearances. You can find out more about Leesa and the Inner Field Trip® community by going to www.innerfieldtrip.com.
Before the Workbook
The Inner Field Trip® started as a group on Facebook in 2015, then moved over to Patreon in 2017. After six years, the community found its new home on Mighty Networks in 2023. The online community is now known as the Inner Field Trip® Basecamp to differentiate it from the workbook. The Basecamp opens to new trekkers 3 times a year.
The Basecamp attracts Highly Sensitive, Highly Perceptive, Deep Feeling, and NeuroDivergent People. Members within the Basecamp are known as Brave Trekkers who explore their unconscious biases using expressive arts, guided prompts and self-reflective journaling. They also participate in 30-day challenges, following the 30-day quest in the workbook, and attend monthly expressive arts classes held by Licensed Navigators.
Self-inquiry inspires direct action and many Brave Trekkers find unique and innovative ways to shake the status quo and disrupt the dominant culture while honoring their quiet, introverted, and gentle personalities.
Trek bravely!