interact with/and gain insights from my peers/colleagues…
Exercise 1
Moon (2006) suggests using free writing activities to get your ideas flowing. If you find it difficult to get started with reflective writing, try thinking of a topic and write continuously about it for five minutes. Suggestions for topics could include why you chose this course and how you think it will help you to develop in the future.
It is likely that once you begin writing, you will surprise yourself at how much you do.
Spend five minutes free writing topics such as: Learning, Professional development, Health, Inter-professional work.
Exercise 2
Make a list of three things which you have learned about yourself from the following:
a particular experience, such as preparing an essay, giving a presentation etc.
Exercise 3
Choose an incident or event on placement/at university/at work
Get started by describing what happened. Then begin to try to reflect on the events following the stages in Gibbs’ model: Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion and Action Plan
Monash University (2013) Language and Learning Online: What is reflective Writing? Available at: http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/medicine/reflective/1.xml (accessed: 4 June 2013).
Moon, J. (2006) Learning Journals: a Handbook for Reflective Practice and Professional Development. Oxon: Routledge.
The learning Centre (2010) Reflective writing. Available at: http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/pdf/reflective.pdf (accessed: 4 June 2013).