Thank you for the reflection. Personal development is a lifelong journey.

1. The oddest thing is that you're not quite the same person as you were a
few seconds ago.
You have a memory of coming into the room and looking at this screen,
and this memory has joined others held somewhere in your biology:
how you came to be here today, who you are and even how to read
these words.
Something must change amongst the atoms and molecules in your body
for you to learn to remember these things.
Learning in other words is transformative in a very concrete sense - it
changes not just your mental world but also your biological form.
Learning accumulates so gradually and quietly that the changes go
unnoticed.
But some ideas are so pronounced and profound they entirely alter a
person's view of themselves and what's around them.
And when that idea spreads, it can transform others until the world itself
seems changed.

2. assumed
knowledge

3. use 4 connected straight lines that go through all circles
draw 9 circles

5. use 3 connected straight lines that go through all circles
draw 9 circles

6. PDP
Personal
Development
Plan

7. PDP
reflective thinking

8. PDP is a process not an outcome

9. PDP
what’s it for?

10. PDP
to help you make sense
of learning.

11. PDP
what's it for?

12. a PDP (journal) is a
place for...
Recording
thoughts, ideas, observations, things
Reflecting
to gain understanding
Analyzing
to further your learning
Concluding
setting out /deciding what you have thought
about

13. PDP
what form does it take?

14. format
How big are your
pockets?
A4, 5, 6, 7, 8
phone
tablet

15. what’s in it - actual?
written notes
diagrams
sketches
drawings

23. don’t
look in
the bag

24. create groups comprising of 2 or 3 people
then
divide your group into two separate
groups - A and B.

25. what's in
the bag?

26. Rules
Nobody is to look in the bag or take anything out of it.
Group A has to communicate as much information to
Group B about the contents of the bag.
Group A cannot speak, draw or write anything.
Group A can put their hands in the bag.
Group B has to document as much information about the contents of the bag
using the pens and paper.
Group B cannot touch the bag or its contents.
The task is 5 minutes long.

27. what’s in it - actual?
written notes
diagrams
sketches
drawings

28. Rules
Nobody is to look in the bag or take anything out of it.
Group A has to communicate as much information to
Group B about the contents of the bag.
Group A cannot speak, draw or write anything.
Group A can put their hands in the bag.
Group B has to document as much information about the contents of the bag
using the pens and paper.
Group B cannot touch the bag or its contents.
The task is 5 minutes long.

29. consider
ideas around choice
the rules you created
how you feel about intuition?
what was your role in the activity?
what you might take away from the process?
how, if at all it might inform your own research.

31. break

32. reflecting
on...
what just
happened?

33. reflective writing process
Describe what happened

34. reflective writing process
What was your role?

35. reflective writing process
How would you
explain the situation
to someone else?

36. reflective writing process
What feelings and
perceptions surrounded
the experience?

37. reflective writing process
What other perspectives,
theories or concepts
could be applied to the
situation?

38. reflective writing process
What might this
experience mean in the
context of your course?

39. How to reflect?
in any learning situation you should
- participate actively during it
- reflect on it afterwards
- prepare for it beforehand

40. reflective
process
reflective
process

41. what is reflection?
there are two types of reflection
- reflection-in-action
(thinking on your feet)
- reflection-on-action
(retrospective thinking).
what is reflection?

42. PDP
what's actually in it?

43. what’s in it - ideas?
personal insight
observations
questions
speculation
the work of others

44. content
raw
un-thought-out observations
recorded close to the action
think police note book
reflection
stuff you have thought about
connections
notes on the unexpected

45. Why do it?

46. why PDP is important - employees
flexibility, adaptability
and
the capacity to
cope and manage
change

47. why PDP is important - employees
self motivation
and
drive

48. why PDP is important - employees
analytical ability
and
decision making

49. why PDP is important - employees
communication
and
interpersonal skills

50. why PDP is important - employees
team working ability
and
collaborative skills

51. ‘homework.....’
Start the process –
Bring what you have managed to our next
session.

52. thank youthank youthank youthank youthank you