Welcome! Do join us for this Introductory series about Supervision.
HOW DO WE WORK WITH THE ‘EDGES’?
An exploration of boundaries and bumps in practice
Where ARE the edges in our practice? how do we know they are there? Can we predict an edge, and our own response?
It’s my view that navigating the edges is a career-long exploration….perhaps life-long!
Edges come up in our everyday lives too! Where do we draw the boundary with those in our lives? With ourselves? How do we even find the edge?
In our practices, how do we work effectively with the edges, holding the container for the work with kindness and compassion and a steady hand?
What gets in our way? How do we get in our own way?
These are some of the things we might explore as we touch into this topic in our Stepping into Supervisoin series
The simple rule guiding supervision that we are working with today is
⭐ Hold the space, work with the edges
WHAT ARE SIMPLE RULES?
‘Simple rules’ is a term that describes a set of guiding principles, behaviours, we have seen within the practice of supervision that are generative. In other words, if we hold these behaviours, we might amplify the experience of ‘supervision’ as defined by those engaged in it.
STEPPING INTO SUPERVISION
Although we take a coaching perspective in this series, these workshops are suitable for anyone entering supervision, or training to become a supervisor, from any of the professional disciplines often known as the Helping Professions.
By coming together in a multi-professional group of coaches, counsellors, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals we can re-consider some of our own assumptions and beliefs, open our heart, mind and will to new practice and become more clear on what kind of supervision fits best at present.
For those considering becoming a supervisor, each session in this series will offer one dimension of supervision, and with the engagement of colleagues participating in the workshop, old friends and new acquaintances, we might explore from multiple perspectives.
Course Content
Presenter
Jo Birch has over 30 years’ experience as a psychotherapist, executive coach and educator. An accredited supervisor, Jo is currently the holder of the prestigious EMCC Global Supervision Award.
She remains an active contributor to the counselling, psychotherapy, coaching, and supervision communities — formerly Chair of BACP Coaching and board member of AoCS and EASC and regular volunteer with AC.
A regular journal contributor, Jo is editor of Routledge publications Coaching Supervision Groups: Resourcing Practitioners (2022) and co-editor Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes (2019) in the EMCC Mastery Series, and previously series editor of Thinking Global for Coaching Today.
As Director of Crucial Difference, she created an international team providing supervision training for coaches and supporting leadership development across the helping professions and beyond.
Also well-known for utilising person-centred creative approaches throughout her work, Jo initially studied with Liesl Silverstone and became one of a small group of accredited trainers. More recently her creativity has moved into photography and filmmaking which extend her personally and professionally. Currently she creates short films for people making a difference in the world; and is creating business portraits with people who hate being photographed!
Jo is committed to creating a more just and inclusive world. Having lived and worked in diverse innercity environments, she integrates multicultural learning into her work, delivering training in multiple languages (including English, Russian, and Chinese) and continually expanding her own cultural understanding through the study of Urdu, Spanish and more.
