Individual Reflection
A tool to aid your personal learning and impact.
Taking time to reflect helps us learn and move forward to apply what’s useful, and leave behind anything no longer helpful. This reflection process ends with key action points to boost your community action. It helps us clear our minds of the past and focus on the task we have in front of us, so that we can be more effective.
Group Size: 1 (individual activity)
Time frame: 30-60mins
Materials: Pen, notepad, a cup of something delicious to drink
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Get comfortable somewhere quiet. Finish any pressing tasks.
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Take a moment with yourself: How do I feel? What’s on your mind about your community action? Decide what experience your reflection will focus on (e.g. a recent experience with your community group, a meeting that has recently taken place, a social interaction, a recent event, etc.)
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It can be good to use old fashioned pen and paper - free yourself from distractions of computers, phones, or tablets. Consider each of these questions in turn:
What happened during the experience?
How did I feel and what were my reactions?
What insights or conclusions can I draw from the experience about myself? What did I learn?
How can I apply what I learned to improve future experience? What actions can I take based on what I learned?
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If getting support in applying your learnings will help, set deadlines for each of the actions you have identified during your reflections and share them with someone in your community.
Created by Amity. Inspired by: The Art of Facilitation, Hunter D, 2007, The Reflective Practitioner, Donald A. Schön, 1983
For more tools and support with your volunteering work you can join the In Our Nature Learning Hub. The In Our Nature Learning Hub is an invitation to slow down, spend some time with yourself, and get a fresh perspective so that you can bring your best to your community and our planet. The Learning Hub is completely free for you to access at any point in your community (climate) volunteering journey and is open for everyone.
