A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) is a structured approach to recording your experience, providing you with the datadata which will enable you: To bring your experience into your conscious awareness, opening you the possibility of different and more intentional behaviorspossibility of different and more intentional behaviors To reflect on and analyze your behaviors and their outcomes, enabling you to learn consciously and intentionally from your experience, maximizing your learning opportunities
Lecture Self Managed Learning (Part B) A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) 4.1 What is a ‘PDJ’? A ‘journal’ is a book (or note pad, or whatever) in which you regularly record your experiences and actions, events and interactions in which you have participated and your reflections on them 4 A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) 4.1 What is a ‘PDJ’? – Cont’d… A PDJ is a structured approach to recording your experience, providing you with the data which will enable you: To bring your experience into your conscious awareness, opening you the possibility of different and more intentional behaviors To reflect on and analyze your behaviors and their outcomes, enabling you to learn consciously and intentionally from your experience, maximizing your learning opportunities To monitor and track your development A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) 4.2 What is a ‘PDJ’? – Cont’d… A PDJ takes the form of a notebook, loose leaf folder, computerized file or whatever you prefer However, it is intended to be more than a diary of occasional, miscellaneous jottings: it required a coherent structure 4 A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) What Happened My Emotions My Thoughts/ Ideas • A brief description of events, with the emphasis on objective facts, and including what led up to the situation • Be specific about the emotions you experienced during the events eg: anger, irritation, fear, anxiety, happiness, satisfactions, sadness – and how they changed during the event • What was going through your head during the events A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) My Action • What you usually in similar circumstances What you ‘wanted’ to What other factors influenced your action or non-action Tendencies • What you actually said and did, and how: verbal and non-verbal behaviours My Behavior • What you can learn from analyzing the event, and how you might change your behavior for the future Implications for my development