6.1 Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle

You can find Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle in Figure 1.

A circular diagram with six sections. The first is labelled ‘Description’ and contains the following: ‘What happened?’ The next is labelled ‘Feelings’ and contains the following: ‘Where were you thinking and feeling?’ The next is labelled ‘Evaluation’ and contains the following: ‘What was good and bad about the experience?’ The next is labelled ‘Analysis’ and contains the following: ‘What else can you make of the situation?’ The next is labelled ‘Conclusion’ and contains the following: ‘What else could you have done?’ The next is labelled ‘Action Plan’ and contains the following: ‘What will you do next time?’
Figure 1 Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle.

Activity 6 Reflecting on your learning

Allow about 10 minutes
  1. Take some time to consider how you will apply information that you have learned this week and write down some key learning points for each of the boxes above.
  2. Use the framework in the free text box below to note each part of Gibb’s cycle, your learning and action points.

Gibb’s Reflective Cycle:

  1. Description of the experience.
  2. Feelings and thoughts that you had about the experience.
  3. Evaluation of the experience, to identify both good and bad things about it.
  4. Analysis to make sense of the situation.
  5. Conclusion about what you learned and what you could have done differently.
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