Meditation, Breathing and Muscle Relaxing

Question 1

What types of relaxation techniques were explored in the tutorials?

Answer 1

1. Meditation / Mental Stillness
2. Deep Breathing
3. Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Question 2

What are the 4 different types of reflection?

Answer 2

1. Technical/Analytical
2. Personal
3. Critical Experience
4. Creative

Question 3

What are the 3 different levels of reflection?

Answer 3

1. Superficial
2. Medium
3. Deep

Question 4

Describe technical/analytical reflection

Answer 4

• Present response as answers to structured questions
• Ends with personal understanding that is based on observation

Question 5

Describe personal reflection

Answer 5

• Answers questions, but in no particular order and uses emotions and personal stories
• Process of reflection is crucial to the understanding
• Generally for self and not assessment

Question 6

Describe critical experience reflection

Answer 6

• Considers personal responses and also includes contextual information
• Evidence helps inform reflection
• Emphasis is on social factors and not just the self

Question 7

Describe creative reflection

Answer 7

Moves away from written forms of reflection (art, laughter etc)

Question 8

Describe superficial reflection

Answer 8

Non-reflector

Reflection at this level is very basic – some would say it is not reflection at all, as it is largely descriptive! However the description should not just be of what happened but should include a description of why those things happened. Reflection at a superficial level makes reference to an existing knowledge base, including differing theories but does not make any comment or critique of them. Mainly Technical/Analytical

Question 9

Describe medium reflection

Answer 9

Reflectors

At this level of reflection, the person takes a step back from what has happened and starts to explore thoughts, feelings, assumptions and gaps in knowledge as part of the problem solving process. The reflector makes sense of what has been learnt from the experience and what future action might need to take place. Technical/Analytical and some Personal

Question 10

Describe deep reflection

Answer 10

Critical Reflectors

This level of reflection has the most depth. This level of reflection shows that the experience has created a change in the person (his/her views of self, relationships, community of practice, society and so on) To do so, the writer needs to be aware of the relevance of multiple perspectives from contexts beyond the chosen incident (this will involve citations) And how the learning from the chosen incident will impact on other situations. Includes aspects of Technical/Analytical; Personal and Critical types

Question 11

Describe deep breathing

Answer 11

Question 12

Describe progressive muscle relaxation

Answer 12