HOW TO….
LEAD A REFLECTION
What is Reflection?
Emphasizes the importance of reflection in service work with tips on how to utilize different approaches with volunteers.
Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders or Educators
"'Reflection' is a vital component of service learning. This manual was designed for educators and leaders of service groups who have an interest and a commitment to provide reflection opportunities for students and community partners alike.”
Service-Learning: Using Structured Reflection to Enhance Learning from Service
Although designed specifically for educators, the extensive resources provided by Campus Compact’s Engaged Scholars can be used by anyone involved in service, educational, or political work.
Questions:
Use these questions to spark conversation among friends or volunteers or to evaluate your own work more deeply.
The following questions taken from the New Student Politics Curriculum Guide:
Some preliminary questions about direct service
• Who are you serving?
• What is the service you are providing?
• Are you responding to an existential human need or to a need that is caused by people?
• If the need is existential, why are you responding?
• If people cause the need, does your response in any way contribute to the problem?
• If people cause the need, does your response to anything to mitigate the cause?
• What do you know/not know about the situation you are encountering?
• What would improve the quality of your contribution?
Some preliminary questions about inner work
• Why is it important to you to respond this need, or these persons?
• What about you matters in this relationship?
• How will your service affect you?
• How will it affect your relationships?
• How will it affect your community?
• How committed are you (or not) to what you are doing?
• How are you perceived by the community you serve?
• How do you feel about what you are doing?
• What engages you most? Troubles you most?
Some preliminary questions about political engagement
• How does/will your service affect the person or persons you are serving?
• What is their network of relationships?
• How does your service affect their network of relationships?
• How committed are you (or not) to what you are doing?
• What resources does your service consume?
• Where do they come from?
• What do they cost?
• Are the interests of the people you serve fairly balanced with those of other stakeholders?
• How can you help the people you serve to change their situation?
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