There are several formats that Forums use to do their monthly reflection. No one way is the correct way, and your Forum will collectively decide on the best set of reflective questions that work for your group and desired outcome.But every monthly update tends to cover these sections:
OVERALL
- What one word would best summarize everything that happened in your life over the past 30 days?
- Why did you choose that word?
CAREER/BUSINESS REFLECTION – Use this section to talk about your career/business.
- What is the best thing that happened to you in your career/business over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
- What is the worst thing that happened to you in your career/business over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
PERSONAL REFLECTION – Use this section to talk about yourself, your physical state, your personal goals, and your internal state.
- What is the best thing that happened to you over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
- What is the worst thing that happened to you over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
FAMILY REFLECTION – Use this section to talk about your immediate family such as your spouse, partner, kids, or parents.
- What is the best thing that happened with your family over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
- What is the worst thing that happened with your family over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
FRIENDS/COMMUNITY REFLECTION – Use this section to talk about your friends and community around you that aren’t directly related to you.
- What is the best thing that happened with your friends/community over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
- What is the worst thing that happened with your friends/community over the last 30 days?
- Why is this important to you?
- What feelings come up for you in talking about this?
NEEDS/LEADS
NEED – What’s one quick need that the group could help you with? This could be suggestions for a place to vacation, lawyer names, books, etc.
LEAD – What’s one quick lead that you could offer to the group? This could be a book you read, a new app, a quote, a class you took, a show you watched, etc.
Then, there is a section on goals, but I’ll save that for another post.