Getting To Grips With Reflection

While the Johari Window model has been a useful aid in getting to grips with critical reflective journaling, and feedback received to date indicates that I am moving closer toward satisfying the requirements of the assessment criteria, I am still not completely confident that I am getting this right. However, this week’s course material (which I think I might have found very useful in week 1) and the relevant recommendations on the reading list, are helping me with this, along with learning from continued feedback.

I found it helpful to interpret the video on the holistic reflection and the reflective domains into a model (above) which maps out what a holistic reflection needs to look like. I will attempt to use this in my reflective practice on order to find the right balance across all five domains. While each domain needs careful consideration when reflecting on any topic, I can see that the relative weights might vary, depending upon the nature of the subject matter in question. The skill to be mastered here is the ability to recognise where the emphasis needs to lie, in order to get the correct balance within any given context.