Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle was developed by Graham Gibbs in 1988 to give structure to learning from experiences. It offers a framework for examining experiences, and given its cyclic nature lends itself particularly well to repeated experiences, allowing you to learn and plan from things that either went well or didn’t go well.

Gibbs’ reflective cycle, was originally devised for nursing, but – like Rolfe’s model of reflection – has become popular across many disciplines, and is widely applied as a prominent model of reflective practice.