Reflective Practice
A course designed to help you reflect theologically on ministry, as a preparation for entering into supervision.
The workshop requires two days to complete, and is designed for use with a group of lay people in ministry within their congregation or Presbytery or through their community involvement. The purpose is to introduce people to the process of reflecting on their life and ministry, and thereby, hopefully, inform and enrich both.
The group process is designed to be used in conjunction with “Reflective Practice” by Dr. Christine Gapes, a publication of the ELM Centre. This group workshop draws upon that material in a sequence different to that in “Reflective Practice”. Several other resources are also used during the workshop.
"Reflective Practice" can be downloaded from our Downloads page... 2 versions are available (high resolution and low resolution). (Workshop attendees receive a copy of the booklet at the course, however, they may find the downloadable version useful for pre-reading.)
COURSE OVERVIEW
The course is designed to be run over two days, with two morning and two afternoon sessions on the first day, concluding with afternoon tea on the second day. Session times are approximately an hour and a half. Time for refreshments should be provided between sessions. Feel free to adapt the recommended process to suit the group and context.
DAY 1
Session 1: Introduction to reflection and learning from experience.
Morning tea.
Session 2: Tools for reflective practice.
Lunch.
Session 3: Experiencing reflection.
Afternoon tea.
Session 4: Barriers to reflective practice.
DAY 2
Session 5: Different ways of reflecting.
Morning tea.
Session 6: Enabling reflection.
Lunch.
Session 7: Theological reflection.
Afternoon tea.
Useful online resources can be found at:
Kolb’s experiential learning cycle
Parallel Thinking and De Bono's 'Six hats'...
JoHari describes different types of people in terms of four quadrants. This is useful for introducing imbalance in the four quadrants. Introducing JoHari's window...
An interactive self and group understanding exercise using the JoHari window. Includes a list of words that can be placed by self and others into JoHari quadrants as a group reflective exercise.
A good description of the concept.
Good diagram of the JoHari window.
