What is Reflection?

# ✨ Reflection — The Need to Be Understood ✨

Tonight’s Topic:
Reflection — is a core relational skill that helps us feel understood, seen, and emotionally safe.

What we’ll explore:

• What reflection actually is
• Why being understood is a core human need (Maslow’s Belonging tier)
• How reflection creates mutuality and reciprocity
• How it supports limbic resonance and mutual theory of mind
• Why many families never practiced reflection
• How to reflect others gently and how to receive reflection yourself

Questions for reflection:
• When someone reflects you accurately, what shifts inside your body?
• How do you prefer to be reflected?
• And how — and how well — do you reflect others?
• (From last week) Which reaction felt older than the moment — a schema, not the present?

As always:
Speak or listen quietly — all forms of participation are welcome.