Personal Reflection Journal

Welcome to your reflection journal! Use this template in Microsoft word, as a PDF or any
other journaling software you would like. Feel free to also use a physical journal.

This structure is not intended to be a mechanical or habitual template for your personal
reflection journal writing. It is also not intended to force you to always focus on both new
insights and new ideas. Those choices depend on what is relevant to you as part of the
process of translating “happenings” into experience. It does, however, intend to suggest
that some of the new insights and/or new ideas of your reflection must be related to your
work environment and work experience.

In order to provide some structure for your weekly personal reflection journal writing, you
should consider three questions each time you reflect and write in your journal:

1. What new insights did you gain from the week’s session?

2. What new ideas did it provoke?

3. How do these insights and/or ideas relate to your work environment (now or to
your hoped for future one) and to your career goals and objectives?

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