Reflection On My Experience Of An Unxamined Life

Reflective practice will make us more self aware, this will raise our own awareness of others and increase

Kim & Loretta (2003), stated that Atkinson & Murphy (1993) identified the key skills needed for reflection as ‘self awareness, the ability to recollect and describe accurately key aspect of the situation, critical analysis of the situation and synthesis of new knowledge gained with the previous knowledge, in order to develop a new perspective’. I will discuss,

Reflection is telling us the operation of mind such as includes perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing.

What is reflection? Reflection is defined by Wilkinson (1996) as an active process whereby the professional gains an understanding of how historical, social, cultural, cognitive and personal experiences have contributed to professional knowledge and practice.

Another model of reflection was proposed by John’s (2000). The model for structured reflection (MSR) has 5 separate stages which allows an individual to reflect. One strength of the Model for Structured Reflection (MSR) is that it has been tested by Novelestsky-Rosenthal, H and Solomon, K (2001) and is found to be beneficial for students to develop their self-awareness.

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The model of reflection chosen for this essay is Gibbs’ reflective cycle (1988). This model has been chosen as it has clear systematic headings; it allows the individual to reflect precisely and accurately, (Jasper, 2003). The Gibbs’ reflective cycle incorporates 6 stages of refection (figure 2), (Rolfe et al, 2011).

“The look of you’s enough. You haven’t seen yourself in a mirror lately.” (pg.147) Mirrors

People live their lives with many transitions, good or bad they provide us with experiences and knowledge. The life experiences we endure provide insight and wisdom to share with others. In life we are continuously looking for fulfilling experiences such as happiness, success, love or contentment. The thing people tend to forget is that these experiences that bring happiness is a basic mood or emotion not a purpose or an endpoint. Reflection provides self-awareness by improving oneself can present a sense of purpose that provides direction to how we live our life. There are moments of reflection that focus on the

In order to help me with my reflection I have chosen Gibbs (1988), as the model to help with my reflective process. This model comprises of a process that helps the individual look at a situation and think about their thoughts and feelings.

When the word reflection is mentioned, the first thought is a mirror like image of yourself. This is to define your own perception of the good and bad quality within yourself. Taking action of the weaknesses and developing my skills to improve myself around everyone, (Stadter, 2015).

The word reflection refers to the production or return of an image that is created through light or through thought. This

According to Howston-Jones (2013) reflection is not something that is out of the ordinary for everyone to do in their everyday lives. Reflection is the act of looking back on a situation, event or incident critically and making sense of it to learn from it and alter our actions to gain better outcomes should the same incident arise again (Capelhow, Crouch, Fisher & Walsh, 2013). As new experiences happen to everyone, everyday; it would be right to consider reflection as an ongoing process within everyone’s life, a process that is repeated, honed and a skill to be developed (McKenna, 1998).

The storyline of Socrates ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ has played out a historically with the controversy of evolution and the belief in God. Most people who believe in God believe think he put everything on Earth and not the theory of Evolution that things evolved over time. Socrates was accused of his findings that he did not believe in God because he challenged the work of God. The unexamined life is not worth living because if we live life the way other people want us to live and go by their beliefs the world would be boring and too uniformed. I think that a different view about everything is very important because we learn to agree and disagree whereas back in Socrates time people were exiled for speaking out on things that