Effective Reflective Practice: a cross-profession framework
FREE 1hour Workshop | Tuesday 18th March | David Love | Online
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Reflective practice is an essential part of the growth of all professionals throughout their careers – from initial training, through their continuing professional development, and even when they have achieved virtuosity in their particular area of expertise.
In this workshop David will present the key elements of the framework for Effective Reflective Practice he has devised with Christian van Nieuwerburgh for their recently published book (“Your Essential Guide to Effective Reflective Practice – Improving Practice through Self-reflection and Writing”, Sage, 2025). There will be opportunities for participants to begin to explore the relevance of the framework for their own reflective practice and personal and professional growth.
Key Benefits
By attending this short workshop you will:
- gain an overview of the Effective Reflective Practice framework
- start to explore how you can use the framework to strengthen your service to others through your own reflective practice; or
- as appropriate, begin to explore how you can use the framework in preparing reflective assignments as part of accreditation processes.
Please choose an aspect of your work you would like to strengthen or change and bring this topic along to the workshop. You will have an opportunity to begin reflecting on your chosen topic in a paired, exploratory conversation with another participant. Please note: you will not be expected to reveal your thinking to the whole group and what you share in your paired conversation will be entirely under your control.
David’s slides for his presentation about the framework will be available as a pdf.
Who Should Attend?
Any practitioners wishing to review how they reflect on their practice and its impact on others (e.g. clients, service users, colleagues). Students and practitioners required to provide evidence of reflective practice for assessment or credentialing purposes. This includes (but is by no means limited to): counsellors, coaches, mentors, teachers, health professionals, social workers, business managers, project managers, administrators
Meet the Tutor: David Love
David is a leadership coach with over 20 years’ experience of working with senior and middle managers in public services (e.g. the NHS). He is also an experienced coach supervisor, mentor and educator. Reflective practice is at the heart of David’s approach to his work with clients and regular, planned reflective practice is a central feature of a commitment to his own lifelong learning. As an art-based practitioner he has established a habit of creative reflective practice to explore his work and relationships with clients. In addition, David encourages clients to create images or cartoons to enable them to explore the challenges and successes they experience in their work. David is an author and describes himself as a “management cartoonist”’, using humour to encourage reflection about the absurdities of organisational life. He is the resident cartoonist for the Association for Coaching’s “Coaching Perspectives” magazine.
Qualifications: MBA (Open University) Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching & Leadership Mentoring (Institute of Leadership & Management) Professional Certificate in Coaching (Henley Business School) Diploma in Art-based Coaching (Art in Coaching/Association of Coaching
Technical Support
All of our online 'live-classroom' events are delivered via Zoom. You will be provided with further details after registration and you will be fully supported by a member of the Iron Mill Online Team, if you need any 'tech assistance' during the session. We're always on hand to offer any help you may need!
Workshop date and cost
Tuesday 18th March. 12:00 - 13:00
Free to attend
