Welcome to berp

Shape how you choose to
‍experience life’s moments

berp can help you to get to know yourself through reflection and reflective  
practice. We are delighted you are interested in finding out more.

Learn more
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How berp works

berp is a reflective app designed to be led by you. It is built around the Experience,
Exploration, Sense-making, Implementation (EESI) Framework (Clarke, 2024: 20)

A message from our founders

What's involved?

berp is an exciting initiative led by academics at Birmingham
City University. The app is currently in its prototype stage, 

and we would be delighted if you would take part in testing

and evaluating it.

If you choose to test the app, you will be invited to a short webinar to provide an overview of the app and its key functions. You will be supported to register an account following which you will have 90-day access to the app and 
at the end you will be asked to complete a short evaluation. Please note, this is currently only for iPhone users.

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Your data

The berp app collects some basic contact details.
This data will be stored securely by Birmingham City University and only used to contact you for potential research, development, and market insight purposes. Any identifiable information used in subsequent research publications will be anonymised or excluded.

All reflective data that you share with the berp app will remain private and personal to you and will not be used for any other purposes.

berp will empower you to

1

Recognise that getting to know yourself is important.

2

Recognise that understanding your thoughts and feelings will give you information about how these shape your behaviours within your experiences.

3

Recognise that every experience in life has something to tell you about who and why you are.

4

Be brave and honest about what and how you experience life.

5

Investigate you.

6

Develop curiosity into and about you.

7

Have empathic regard towards yourself.

8

Recognise that unwanted thoughts and feelings are information about behaviours within you.

9

Develop the principles of a reflective mindset.

More about berp

The berp team are Nikki and Kat from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Birmingham City University. Their mission is to help individuals become the very best version of themselves through becoming an effective reflective professional.

Dr Nicola Clarke

Dr Nicola Clarke

Associate professor in reflective academic practice

Dr Nicola Clarke

Associate professor in reflective academic practice

Teaches reflection and reflective practice across the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has published widely on reflection and is the solo author of the Student Nurses Guide to Successful Reflection: Ten Essential Ingredients now in its second edition. Within this edition she created the new framework for reflection; experience, exploration, sense-making (EESI) that the APP is built around.

Kathryn Sethi

Kathryn Sethi

Senior lecturer in nursing

Kathryn Sethi

Senior lecturer in nursing

Kat joined the NHS as an adult and paediatric nurse, and she is currently a doctoral student where her research interests align to reflection and its influence on culturally safe care. As a result of their passion for supporting people to gain the self-knowledge required to be the best version of themselves through reflection and reflective practice, Nikki and Kat – the BERP team – have created an app to help you get to know yourself through reflection and reflective practice.

As a result of their passion for supporting people to gain the self-knowledge required to be the best version of themselves through reflection and reflective practice, Nikki and Kat - the berp team – have created an app to help you get to know yourself through reflection and reflective practice.

Be part of berp

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