Reflective Writing

Date Attended: 9/28/2016

Leader of Colloquium: Penelope Pynes

    This colloquium helps one understand how to use reflective writing as a method for evaluating your actions or working towards improving yourself in whatever aspect you deem necessary. Also, sometimes when we do not understand what we need to improve reflective writing can be helpful in showing us how we are perceiving or approaching a situation in order to identify what we could be doing better. The Johari Window is a helpful tool that was also discussed during this colloquium. This method of evaluating ones self reveals the different dimensions we hold in terms of our self consciousness along with other’s consciousnesses of us. Refer to the diagram below for more info on each of these dimensions.     

    Reflective writing is a method of evaluating yourself as being able to verbalize your thought process in terms of anything is important to improving and growing as a person. I have found that this tool will be helpful in my career and in my personal life through this colloquium because putting deep thought into the reasoning behind your actions is how you learn to set appropriate and necessary goals in life. It is also important to always want to improve and this tool is perfect for recognizing how you could do so.