Group reflection

Whilst reflection is often considered to be an individual activity, reflecting with other people can help you to compare your meaning making.

Questions for reflecting in groups

Expectations / predictions

• What different expectations did people have for the experience? 

• Where did those expectations come from?

Attending

• What different aspects of the experience were people aware of?

• How do people's memories of the event differ?

Encoding

• How do people express or describe the experience differently?

• What different language or symbols do they use?

Evaluating

• What different criteria do people use to evaluate an experience?

• What different things are people comparing aspects of the experience to?

Grouping

• What different similarities and differences between things are people noticing?

• What different boundaries do people notice?

Correlating

• What different patterns and connections do people notice in an experience?

• What different structures do people apply to information from an experience?

Extrapolating

• What different explanations and predictions do people make about their experiences?

• In what different ways do people make sense of their experiences?