R3

CORE DEFINITION

R3 is a reflection framework with three steps, all beginning with R. Review describes what happened and what resulted, staying with observable facts. Reflect examines what the experience means, what caused it, and what insight transfers to other situations. Resolve commits to a specific next action. The framework's purpose is to make reflection short enough to be performed routinely, since elaborate review processes are usually abandoned. The sequence matters: reviewing before reflecting keeps the analysis anchored to events, and ending with a resolution prevents the process from stopping at insight.