Challenging and/or positive experiences create powerful opportunities for learning using reflective practice, the process of witnessing one’s own experience in order to take a closer look at it. By developing the ability to explore and be curious about our own experience and actions, we open up the possibilities of purposeful learning— learning derived not from books or experts, but from our work and our lives.
In this article, Community Science Senior Associate Joy Amulya writes about reflective practice and why it’s important to generating learning. Purposeful learning is an important component of Innovating for Social Impact, a new and powerful approach Community Science has developed that is intended to improve the organizational effectiveness of philanthropic, nonprofit and government groups.
