The power of reflection, as a means of accessing learning that is woven into experience, is the pause that it creates in the day to day, wherein the reflector is able to recollect thoroughly, think critically and assess their past - and, crucially, their future - actions.
This is why Borton's "What? So what? Now what?" schema of reflection so throroughly encapsulates what a reflector needs to do in order to reflect effectively and, above all, with purpose.
Reflection, then, is taking the time to look back at recent experience and to ask those three questions, taking time after posing each one to explore one's response in detail. Anything else - such as the sophisticated models, particularly those that are underpinned by shaky notions of "spirituality" - are top-heavy and distracting superstructures built on a simple and effective concept.
Reflection is about learning; how an individual uses their learning thereafter - or what particular shape they give to their learning - is subsidiary to the act of reflection itself.
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