Creativity is a higher order thinking skill, textile crafts are great ways of processing feelings, and reflective journals are a useful tool for students, practitioners and researchers. In this blog, I shall explore how I combine these ideas, using mini textile and mixed-media collages in a stitched reflective journal, to document my reflexive journey. This has the added bonus of also being a calming and sensory soothing activity which helps me a achieve work/study/leisure ba

All professionals in health, social care, or education, have personal lives and experiences that influence who their values and practice. Gaining insight into who we are, what we bring, and how this impacts on every aspect of what we do – developing reflexivity – is a critical part of any vocational student’s journey. My teaching is saturated with the why and the how of managing our ‘selves’ as social workers. This week, in my role of research student, I was being asked about