Discuss your feelings and thoughts about the experience. Consider questions such as:
• How did you feel at the time?
• What did you think at the time?
• What impact did your emotions, beliefs and values have?
• What do you think other people were feeling?
• What did you think about the incident afterwards? How did things go?
• What was good and what was bad about the experience?
• What went well? What didn’t?
• Were your contributions positive or negative.
• If you are writing about a difficult incident, did you feel that the situation was resolved afterwards?
• Why did things go well? Badly?
• How can the theory explain what happened?
• How does my experience compare to the literature?
• What research/theories/models can help me make sense of this?
• Could I have responded in a different way?
• What might have helped or improved things?
• What have you learnt? Generally, and specifically
• What can I now do better?
• Could/should you have done anything differently?
• What skills would I need to handle this better?
• How /where can I use my new knowledge and experience?
• How will I adapt my actions or improve my skills?
• If the same thing happened again, what would I do differently?
