Benefits of reflective practice

Reflective practice helps you to improve and develop. It involves deliberately analysing your experiences and actions.

For example:

• An athlete thinks about what mistakes they made during a training session, then consider ways to avoid those mistakes in the fut...

There are different approaches to reflective practice. One way to engage in reflective practice is to ask guiding questions. In the context of a recent event, ask yourself:

• How did I feel while the event was happening?
• What were my goals?

Two concepts that are considered in relation to reflective practice are:

• Reflexivity - people's ability and tendency to display general self-awareness,
• Critical reflection - an in-depth type of reflection, which is being aware of how your as...

There are three main types of reflection:

1. Anticipatory reflection: Reflection that's performed before an event occurs involves asking what might happen, possible challenges, how you can prepare and how you should respond.
2. Reflection in action:

A shared reflective activity can take various forms, such as discussing your experiences with other people or having someone with expertise ask you guiding questions to help you reflect.

A shared reflective practice can be beneficial as a group might help ...

• Start by explaining the concept of reflective practice.
• Explain the benefits of reflective practice.
• Explain how to engage in reflective practice.

Once you've done this, create an environment conducive to reflective practice while keeping in ...

The reflective cycle is a process that guides reflective practice through the following steps:

1. Describe what happened without judgment or analysis.
2. Define how you felt, what you were thinking, and how you feel now, but witho...