Reflective practice and group dynamics.
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Reflective practice and group dynamics.
- 1. Reflective Practice for campaigners Ignite @ ECF 2018 Marci López Levy
- 2. From activists to ‘reflectivists’ Duncan Green in his book How Change Happens calls for reflection in order to deal with complex systems and constant and emerging change
- 4. Complex systems… Campaigning is often about intervening in complex systems And… Each of us is part of complex systems - our teams, organisations, sectors, profession, region etc. And… Each of us internally is a complex system of history, family, culture, language, personality, beliefs etc.
- 5. Today we’re focusing on the systems we are part of in day to day work
- 7. What we bring to work our intellect experience, education and… our attitudes and social skills, empathy adaptability sense of humour etc.
- 8. …we also bring… Awareness of power dynamics Needs for belonging, recognition, status Prejudices Unconscious biases Feelings of competition and envy
- 9. How are you supported in: • expressing and developing your personal skills for work? • acknowledging and dealing with your less positive attitudes?
- 10. Reflective Practice • Provides a space for bringing more awareness of ourselves into work • Acknowledges emotional and mental states (does not necessarily try to resolve them) • Brings awareness to personal dynamics that affect work • There was once a Board of Trustees…
- 11. Group work and process For best results… • Reflect with a group, ideally six to ten people • Find ways of incorporating reflection into existing work practice/meetings • When there are ‘no feelings’, check in with the body • Be agile, catch issues early, deal with them promptly
- 12. Reflective Gains • Acknowledging feelings transforms interaction • Opening a supported space enables difficult conversations • Learning from failure actually happens • Motivation to get things done improves = you will collectively improve your outcomes
- 13. How to apply reflective practice? • Make time to check in • Include feelings in evaluations • Trust that time you give to communication and process will improve your ability to get excellent work done • Sign up for an OS session tomorrow on reflective practice and play with some more tips and tricks!
- 14. Marci López Levy Writer + Group Analyst ‘Reality leaves a lot to the imagination’ John Lennon
Editor's Notes
- How to fit it in?
- What’s the compelling case for RP?
- Inter-related levels
- How can reflection be practised? At all levels, of course. Not the bigger systems we try to change; not the internal systems that only we can attend do – only I can do exercise with my body, only I can get emotional support or counselling if I need it – however, I am focusing our attention to how the systems at work
- Gibbs G (1988) Learning by Doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods. Further Education Unit. Oxford Polytechnic: Oxford. Kolb’s Learning
- We have become accustomed to the high level of demand on our personal resources that work imposes. Campaigners do not need to provide emotional labour of the kind a nursery school teacher or counsellor has to, but it’s not enough to just ‘think’. Campaigners tend to do things ‘they believe in’, which means you bring a lot more of yourself to work than just turning up and doing as you’re told Chances are you have a lot invested in what you do
- How all the above and more affect our own mental states and emotional well-being, except when it becomes horrible and salient, bullying, abuse, discrimination
- Usually denial…
- There was once a board of trustees…from suspicion to trust Does not need to mean large chunks of time set aside for: feelings and failings Can become part of normal work processes and make them much more effective
- What’s the point?