Created
Aug 23, 2024 12:16 AM
Category
Facilitate for Creative Learning
Description
Grow your facilitation skills with these easy reflection prompts
Prompts to help you externalize and reflect on your experiences
Grow in your facilitation journey!
Getting into the practice of reflecting helps you grow into a better facilitator.
- At the end of each workshop, set aside ~10 minutes to reflect on your own or debrief with co-facilitators.
- Write down the reflections, on paper, a notebook, or on a digital document.
- If you took pictures, try to include them in your document!
Printable Reflection Card ↓
PLIX_Reflection_Prompts.pdf165.1KB
Keep this card with a notebook as a reminder to reflect!
Reflection Prompts
Try one of these framings, or add your own:
“Green-yellow-red”
- What went well?
- What could be improved?
- What was challenging?
Strong Emotions
Think about times you sensed strong emotions in yourself or your learners. When were you or they:
- Excited?
- Frustrated?
- Confused?
- Engaged?
Sentence Starters
Choose some sentence starters to get your reflection going:
- I saw….
- I felt….
- I heard….
- and add your own!
Facilitation Mantras
Have you tried out the PLIX facilitation mantras? Check them out here.
- What might you do differently next time?
- What did you do well?
Other Questions
- What did you notice? What did you wonder?
- What did you enjoy the most?
- What was interesting?
- When were you most worried?
- How was this similar to your usual programming? How was it different?
- What ways did you engage the facilitation techniques?
- What skills or nudges were most helpful in learners assisting each other?