ABSTRACT
The Turning Out stage is when the group considers how to apply the thinking they have done in the seminar to the outside situation. The Turning Out stage should allow some initial thinking about how to bring reflection and practice together, but it is not the group’s responsibility to come up with a detailed plan for how to do this. Occasionally ideas in a reflective practice group develop to contradict what the practitioner is doing or being required to do, and this difference cannot be ignored. The group was made up of a combination of seven or eight social workers and clinical psychologists who were part of a larger group attending a course on the facilitation of reflective practice groups. The facilitator encouraged members of the group to share responses to the material, and they did this in a free and lively way, considering what their feelings might begin to tell them about the client’s experience.
