Reflection

Without a vision for tomorrow, hope is impossible

Nothing is so important that it burns you out, drains you completely, or destroys your valued relationships.

Advocacy is about power. It means influencing those who have power on behalf of those who do not.... In other words, advocacy is required when people feel vulnerable and powerless.

Reflection helps us to recognise and make sense of the patterns in our work.

Healthcare is an uncertain world in which the only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.

, if we do not perceive the world to be fuzzy and chaotic, then there is no learning. No learning, then no improvement of practice.

f the world of healthcare itself is not predictable and stable, then we need some means of understanding what does, should or might work to good effect

We should avoid reflecting only on the extraordinary. The ordinary deserves attention also

active men if we believe it right to look for what we don’t know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don’t know we can never discove

That each individual with whom we have contact as practitioners can add a new dimension to our lives, even while we believe that we are teaching them