Reflective practice gives us the opportunity to pause, think, process, and make sense of everything happening around us. It can create clarity about what is happening, what is working and what can be done differently.
Reflective practice offers a valuable and focused space for staff members to reflect, observe, process and learn about their experiences at work. They can provide a supportive and developmental space for people to understand each other better, decision making, navigate team dynamics, and the emotional impact of their work, amongst other things.
Facilitating reflective practice groups requires a variety of skills, knowledge and understanding to provide a safe, constructive and reflective space. We understand the importance of these spaces, especially when it comes to the wellbeing of your team, staff retention, and ensuring safe environments.
Organisations can work in complex, demanding and ever-changing environments. It might be with people in distress and in complex and challenging situations, leading a merger, or restructuring a service.
We can get frustrated, tired, and overly harsh, impacting the way we work with people and in our own lives. One way we can look after each other and ourselves is by making space for thinking and reflecting on how and what we are doing.
It’s about asking ourselves: what am I doing, and what am I not doing yet? That’s where being reflective comes in. It means working at different levels to understand why and how we do things, and the impact it has on ourselves and others. Ultimately, it means wanting to change things and making improvements for the future. But before that, it means having a professional space to think.
We work within complex human systems where each situation is unique. Our knowledge, insights, and expertise are the tools we use to navigate and manage these challenges.
Working with your organisations to provide physical time and safe environments for reflection where people can explore their experiences and actions.
We learn and develop by reflecting on and learning from experience, from thinking deeply and honestly about our work, challenging situations, and group dynamics.
“Sometimes at work we may find ourselves in an unhelpful cycle just going round and round with things getting increasingly difficult, feeling increasingly burned out not very satisfied in our work.
Reflective practice helps us break out of this cycle. It helps to provide a structure through which we can get curious about what’s going on and start to have those discussions: What’s happening? Why is it happening? What have we got going for us that might be able to help us here and how do we go about doing that”?
Dr Sian Mulcahy, Head of Training and Delivery
Sometimes your teams may be feeling burned out impacting the way they work with people. Creating space is important for us to make sense of our feelings: where they originate and why we might feel frustrated. This reflection helps us avoid making assumptions and projecting those onto others.
Ultimately, it means wanting to make changes and future improvements. But before that, it means having a professional space to think.
Reflective practice is about work and what happens in a workplace including work processes and exploring alternative ways of working together as a team. Supervision is a dedicated time to talk about your own stuff and reflect personally.
We offer reflective practice sessions both in person and online. Our teams, based in South Wales are available to work in Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, and beyond.
Interested in reflective practice for your organisation? Just fill out the form below and one of the team will get back to you as soon as possible.