Extra Yearly Reflection Prompts

Here is a selection of extra prompts and invitations to expand your reflective practice.

What moments of surprise or wonder caught you off guard this year? What do they reveal about what matters to you now?
What mistakes are you still holding onto from this year? What is making them hard to let go of?
Is there something unfinished or unspoken from this year that still tugs at you? How might you bring gentle closure or forgiveness?
Which part of yourself — a character, archetype, or instinct — took the lead this year? How did it serve or protect you?
How would you describe your relationship with the natural world this year?
What supports or refuges helped you re-find centre when things wobbled?
What most depleted your life force this year? How did your body signal the need for a boundary or rest?
Where did you become undone, lost, or disoriented — and what did that undoing make possible?
Was there a moment when beauty or grief in the wider world moved you unexpectedly? What opened in you then?
If your year had a posture or gesture, what would it be? Try embodying it for a moment — what story lives there?
How did your relational life evolve — your capacity to listen, attune, repair, and be changed by others?

“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”

— Tara Brach

How are you holding yourself as you reflect here and now? Can you notice any difference in how you hold yourself in your own growth and healing path?
How are you weaving together your need for authenticity with your longing to belong? What have you learned about how you meet both these needs?
What have you learned about the ways you meet and soothe difficult emotions?
What has “home” meant to you lately — as a place, a feeling, a belonging?
Are you meeting the world more as a mirror (reflecting you back) or a window (revealing what’s beyond you)?
How has your relationship with your nervous system shifted — what new forms of care or listening are emerging?
What did you learn this year about what you don’t yet know?
When you revisit a challenging moment from this year, what can you now see you most needed then?
Are there conversations or gestures of repair still lingering? What is it you feel, and need there?
How might you describe your current learning edge or opportunity in your relationships with friends and family based on this year?
How would you describe your relationship with the more-than-human world now? How do you see yourself in the world?
Which of your perspectives or worldviews might be ready to soften, to let something larger in?
If our life is in some way a movement from dependency to identity, to belonging in your human family, to belonging in the more-than-human family, to service: how might you reflect on where you currently stand?

— Priya Parker

How might you reshape your home or daily environment to better reflect your values, visions and longings?
How might you take our shared ecological moment more sincerely to heart — not as a burden, but as a love story to live into?
How are you wanting to ‘show up’ in generosity for those close to you next year?
Are there any particular practices or resources you would like to develop further next year?
Novelty is important! What feels just outside your circle of knowing — something you’re curious to court?
How can you widen empathy toward those whose experiences differ most from yours — human or otherwise?
Is there a cause or community you feel called to support or stand beside?
Where would you like to practice more strength next year?
Where would you like to practice more sensitivity?
What can you lay down or compost, to nourish what’s next?
What quality or way of being would you most love to bring into your relationships, your work, your small corner of the world?
If you were to express your intention or vision for next year in a movement or gesture, what would that look and feel like?