Donna Frost

Design and methods 99 4 period between meetings, individuals systematically gathering information about the experience in agreed-upon ways, bringing this information back to the group meetings, collectively reflecting on it, drawing conclusions and determining the experiential focus for the next round of inquiry. Capture relevant experience in practice Share experience and own response to it with group Group reflection, critical questioning Group determines focus for next stage of inquiry Figure 4 . 3 Over-simplistic representation of the experience-and-reflection cycle Such an explanation hides the complexity of the process and in doing so removes its transformative power as well. For example, both experience and reflection can and did happen within both practice situations and inquiry group meetings. New insights were reached both individually and collectively. Burning, transformative questions emerged gradually from within a group process and also presented themselves suddenlyand distractingly in themiddle of clinical practice. Experiences