Welcome! Do join us for this Introductory series about Supervision.
We’ve run this session in the past….and there seems more to explore. Join us and see where the conversation takes us.
Join us to explore this together in our living-learning community!
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT!
Go on….sing at the top of your voice just like Tina Turner…or perhaps (in my case) only like Tina in my dreams!
However, back to the question about ‘love’. What HAS love got to do with our work? When do we engage with love? And what gets in the way of us loving our clients, supervisees, business colleagues. Of course, you will immediately realise I don’t mean a sexual, romantic love. That’s whole different exploration about transference, counter transference, ethics and standards and more.
The ‘love’ we will explore her in this workshop is something more essential to life. Love of another human being, a person, simply navigating life in the best way they can at any given time… with the resources available.
What if we turned our attention to engaging with love?
One of our simple rules guiding supervision, which we use as the basis for our Diploma in Supervision programme is ⭐ Engage with love bringing kindness and compassion into every engagement
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 MA FRSA, Supervisor, executive coach and psychotherapist
Jo brings people together in global learning communities. As Director of Crucial Difference & International Centre for Reflective Practice, Jo leads an international team providing training for coaches to become supervisors and continue developing as leaders in the profession. She is an accredited supervisor, and an active participant in the professional community, previously Chair of BACP Coaching and board member of AoCS and EASC.
Jo is editor of Coaching Supervision Groups: Resourcing Practitioners (2022); co-editor of EMCC Mastery Series publication Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes (2019) and previously series editor of Thinking Global in Coaching Today.
Jo also runs an annual international conference on Coaching Supervision in multiple languages including English, Russian and Chinese.
Shirley has extensive experience in cross-cultural work as a coach, mentor and supervisor of coaches and mentors. She often works with people who are working across cultures and might themselves be living in a different country from where they were born. Perhaps thinking in or speaking a language that is not their mother tongue. As a coach, supervisor and facilitator creative tools provide a gateway to a different way framing themes, discovering possibilities and expressing difficult emotions or dynamics when our constraint of language cannot readily or easily express what we are feeling or experiencing. From first-hand experience Shirley believes that imagery, art-based and embodied approaches can work both in-person and virtually. These are tools and skills that anybody can learn. Shirley has fine-tuned her skills in working with creative tools on a foundation of over 30 years in global human resource roles enabling both organisational and leadership development.
