Reflective Practice - part 2

Following on from the post below, I would add that its all very well reflecting on what you have done, but sometimes others' opinions give perspective that will either support or question already held views. As part of Thing 5, I found that discussion with colleagues about what we had so far gained from this programme informed my reflection.

Reflective Practice

The fact that I'm so behind on CPD23 demonstrates  I have had no time to practice reflecting! However, I think this is the easiest Thing so far: with the other Things, they take time, focus and energy out of the workday, whereas with reflecting, it can be done any time, anywhere and anyhow.

So, having read the useful blogs given by the CPD23 page I did a bit of reflecting on reflection and realised I do this anyway, whether or not I put it into nice compartmentalised bullet points, or in bite-sized blog posts: everything I do in life is surrounded by what ifs and everything I do is surrounded by yes buts. That is, I consider everything I do and I review everything I've done. Of course this is only done up to a point, when embarrassment or worry kick in I tend to move on as making myself unhappy about something that can't be changed is not helpful in the least, but it is a lesson learnt for next time a similar situation occurs.