See-Judge-Act-Evaluate-Celebrate | Vincentians in Action Reflection Toolkit

What are my immediate thoughts or impressions?
What was the context in which this took place: social geographic, political, economic, demographic, cultural?
What were the effects of such factors as: age, race, cultural differences or similarities, class differences or similarities, religious beliefs?
How were my own values, attitudes, assumptions or past experiences influencing the way I felt or acted in this situation?
Who are the actors (people indirectly/directly involved) in this situation? What are their short- and long-term goals?
How are the actors related: to one another? To me? To other organizations or institutions?
What are the implications of these links?
What questions, concerns, things that don’t make sense am I left with?
What were you feeling at specific moments and throughout the experience?

What are some of the things an ordinary citizen can do about this situation?
What responsibility do we have as people of faith?
What are some of the things that are being done?
What would we like to change about ourselves or the situation?
What forces (people, institutions, cultural values, etc.) are likely to oppose me/us?
What forces are likely to support us?
Who will we choose to work with?
Who will we ask for support?
What are likely implications of our actions for ourselves? For others?

What are we hoping for?
What were my contributions to the group? Were they useful?
What were our goals and objectives? Were we aware of these?
How do I see the situation differently now as compared to when I first encountered it?
What would we like to do differently next time?
How do I take responsibility for my own and others learning?
I wish we did more…
I wish we did less…

What does celebration look like for us in this program? For people in communities we have visited?
How do we celebrate?
What things do we need to celebrate?
How do we experience celebration here?