Reflective Practice for Teams

Working in mental health, healthcare and other helping professions can involve holding considerable emotional and professional complexity.

Busy services and organisational demands can leave little time to reflect on how the work affects us, our relationships with colleagues, and the way a team responds to the people it supports.

A space to reflect together 

Reflective practice groups offer protected space for teams to slow down, think together and become curious about their experience.

The aim is not necessarily to solve a problem or decide what someone should have done differently. We may explore challenging clinical experiences, relationships within the team, communication, professional boundaries and the impact of organisational pressures.

Sometimes reflection allows different perspectives or practical possibilities to emerge. At other times, having space to acknowledge and think together about an experience can help a team respond with greater awareness.