Due to our recent growth, bringing wonderful new faces and teams into Thrive Tribe, as well as adding more services to our collective national impact. Combined with promotion of many of our current Peer Reflection Facilitators into line management positions across Thrive Tribe, we have a number of services that require newly appointed facilitators to support their teams.

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What is Peer Reflection?

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The aim of Peer Reflection is to provide a professional, safe and reflective learning environment for practitioners to access regularly. The sessions should increase well-being; promote best-practice and cultivate a positive engaging culture.

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Peer Reflection gives people at Thrive Tribe…

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• The opportunities to reflect on practice within a safe, learning and positive environment.

• The chance to review, maintain and develop standards of practice.

• The ability to share professional knowledge and skills within a peer environment to increase learning, reflection, and positive change.

• The chance to be non-judgmental, have open self-development and have a self-awareness culture for professional development at all times.

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What does Peer Reflection look at Thrive Tribe?

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Peer Reflection enables practitioners to develop skills and knowledge by actively reflecting on their practice. It enables us to problem-solve rather than see challenges as barriers. It promotes creativity and innovation. More importantly it gets individuals talking about their practice and sharing ideas, emotions, and coping strategies and this cultivates a positive workplace culture of health and well-being.

It can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, recognise the contributions of your team members, and develop strategies for improvement. Self and peer reflection can also foster a sense of accountability, responsibility, and collaboration in your group.
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What are the benefits of Peer Reflection?

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Peer Reflection has many benefits for us as client facing staff and the service and organisation.

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Evidence suggests that support, like peer reflection, can buffer against anxiety, stress, and high workloads. Peer reflection and clinical supervision will benefit individuals to:

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• Feel supported

• Experience less stress, burnout, and sickness/absence

• Develop personally and professionally

• Be less inclined to leave the profession

• See increased confidence levels

• Feel less isolated

• Develop clinical competence and knowledge

• Feel empowered

• Identify successes and progress

• Increase best-practice modelling

• Feel more valued and motivated

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The goal is to become elevated versions of ourselves so that we can bring our authentic style into the way we relate to work, our colleagues and the clients we work with, be this directly or indirectly.

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If you have any more thoughts, questions or would like any further information on Peer Reflection at Thrive Tribe, or if you would like to become a Peer Review Facilitator - with its own set of added professional benefits and progression options, please email me (Katie Ferrett) by clicking here.