Reflection Guide
You(th) are invited to use the Our Wisconsin Conversation materials as a reference. Use the questions and ideas on this page to reflect. Consider your own observations, questions, critiques of a conversation you read about and build on it. You may want to use your ideas to lead a conversation of your own.
Reflecting on a Conversation
Choose one conversation example from the FAQs to think about. You may have questions, observations, critiques of the activity. Use those to adapt the conversation and keep it going. What can your adaptations include?
Some areas to think about are:
- Youth specific observation about the content or skill being learned
- Comfort level with the topic (yours or your community)
- Participants and partners (Who might be interested in the conversation?)
- Location of the program (i.e. virtual, after school program, statewide vs. county) may be based on anything from a physical space to a person’s comfort level or age.
- Community connection (Where do you have relationships?)
- Resources and Expertise (Where or who in your community could you learn from? Where or with who in your community could you lead?)
Questions to consider:
- What did you learn from this experience?
- What did you think about that you hadn’t considered before?
- What were your favorite parts of the conversation? Least favorite?
- Does anything remind you of another experience you’ve had?
- What assets or challenges might exist in your community?
- How could you work on challenges? How can you connect to assets?
- What action might you take?
- What would you share with someone else? Why would it matter to them?
Learn Together:
Critical Experiential Learning Model
