Dear Bonnie
This is my first time too of making a contribution to this site. You should not be so hard on yourself when you describe your shortcomings “of my initial training programme due to inadequate, inaccurate and inappropriate assumptions about the people involved, and the training interventions that have been used in the past” as it sounds as if somehow you felt it was wrong. I believe you were not looking into a crystal but from a narrower lens. I am developing my work in living theories after many years of classroom based action research in which I wanted to offer a contribution to practice but somehow felt it was not scholarly enough.
It is not surprising that the group you facilitated found the deeper reflections more difficult as they were required to appreciate what they already had as well as critically engaging with ‘I’ to improve practice. I expect following the delight at your session they may return with a much deeper level of reflection.
I have facilitated a number of educators in leadership positions and have found once they begin to realize they can theorise they will go for it in a big way.
I have developed an approach to critical reflection in my research that looks at what I have termed circles of influence in this way I can ask the I, we and them questions differently.
Sue Attard‘
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