David Kolb’s Learning Cycle with Coaching Questions to Reflect
A reflective model designed to help people learn from their experiences.
In this article, I explain Kolb’s model of reflection and share a list of coaching questions to reflect upon. I use this model in my coaching practice to create space for clients to enable learning and insights between the coaching sessions.
David Kolb is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. He is an educational theorist whose research focuses on experiential learning and his popular work on reflective learning cycles.
Kolb’s reflective cycle is a model designed to help people learn from their experiences — it is therefore known as an experiential learning cycle. It can be used as a basis for the structure of a reflective essay or as a way to structure your thinking.
Kolb’s model is based on four stages, requiring you to work through each one before the cycle leads to new experiences and loops back around. Through my series of research and practice of the reflective model, I have designed the coaching questions below for reflective analysis and optimal progress.
- Concrete Experience (feeling)
Describe the experience as is without adding any biases and opinions.
- What did you experience?
- What feelings did it evoke? - Reflective Observation (learning)
Learn about the experience and the…
