“Reflective practice allows us to learn from our experiences and identify changes we could consider for similar future encounters.”

— Reflective practice is about revisiting an encounter you have had to deliberate about what happened, especially your role in it. This includes your mannerisms, body language, behaviour and thinking at the time and the emotions that were involved.

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Chapter Fourteen: Help Me Regain Control.

This is a whole-group exercise to emphasise the importance of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing.’

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Chapter Thirteen: Why bother with Reflective Practice?

This is a whole-group exercise to emphasise the importance of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing.’

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Chapter Twelve: Picture it.

A guided reflection using a sketch for discussion

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Chapter Eleven: The patient I will never forget

This is a reflection on a theme: ‘The patient I will never forget’

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Chapter Ten: Giving hope in hopeless situations

This is a study and reflection on Hope

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Chapter Nine: ‘Who will help me tell my story well?’

This is a reflection on active listening and sharing our story

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Chapter Eight: Loss and Grief Revisited

This is a reflection on loss and grief

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Chapter Seven: Reflections on reflective practice

This is a whole-group exercise about applying the ‘Golden Rule’ to our own practice.

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Chapter Six: The Golden Rule

This is an exercise that focuses on the ‘Golden Rule.’

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Chapter Five: Sarah

This is a whole-group exercise to discuss the dangers and joys of befriending

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Chapter Four: Presence, being there.

This is a whole-group exercise to emphasise the importance of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing.’

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Chapter Three

Tudor and Merry (2006) define ‘transference’ as ‘the displacement of an emotion or attitude from one person to another person..

When people make assumptions about a chaplaincy visit, those assumptions are often religious stereotypes. They can be based on previous religious experiences, how the chaplain looks, how chaplaincy members talk, or the jargon used.

When transference influences the encounter with a person, we may experience negativity, affecting our ability to form a relationship with them.

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Chapter Two

Chris John’s model of structured reflection arose while he was working in the Burford Nursing Development Unit. His idea was that it would be used in guided reflection which would lend itself to supervision.

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Chapter One

Introductory Paper for Discussion on Reflective Practice by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Chaplaincy Team by Rev A V Ruddle MTh BD GDip Counselling