This workshop, “Reflexivity and Self-Awareness in Supervision,” is part of a supervisor training series designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of key knowledge-based learning outcomes from the supervision curriculum.
In this session, participants will explore the role of self-awareness in the supervisory relationship, focusing on how a supervisor’s responses, biases, and personal experiences influence their supervisory practice. Through structured presentations, reflective activities, and practical discussions, participants will develop strategies for increasing reflexivity and self-monitoring to enhance the effectiveness of supervision.
Learning Outcomes Covered:
Learning Outcome 5: Demonstrate reflexivity and self-awareness in relation to the supervisory relationship.
- Content Area 8.8: Self-awareness in relation to the supervisor role.
- Content Area 8.9: Use of self in the supervisory relationship and process to benefit the relationship and the supervisee’s awareness and development.
- Content Area 8.10: Own responses and reactions to the supervisory relationship, supervisees, and their material.
- Content Area 8.11: Monitoring the impact of self (i.e., the supervisor) on supervisees.
- Content Area 8.12: The dynamics of the supervisory relationship.
- Content Area 8.13: Own responses to power.
What You Will Learn:
- The role of self-awareness in supervision and its impact on supervisory effectiveness.
- Strategies for using reflexivity to strengthen supervisory relationships.
- Techniques for monitoring personal responses and managing biases in supervision.
- Understanding the dynamics of power and relational influence within supervision.
Who Should Attend:
- Clinical supervisors seeking to enhance their self-awareness and reflexivity in supervision.
- Counselors, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals looking to develop reflective supervision skills.
- Professionals participating in clinical supervision courses seeking to achieve specific learning outcomes.
Competencies Addressed:
- CC8.1iii: Self-awareness in the supervisory role and monitoring personal responses.
- CC8.2all: Using supervision consultancy for self-examination and professional development.
- CC8.3all: Awareness of personal bias and its effect on the supervisory relationship.
Course Content
Presenter
Jo Birch has over 30 years’ experience as a psychotherapist and executive coach. An accredited supervisor, 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.
Currently the holder of the EMCC Global Supervision Award, Jo’s work is recognised for her long-standing professional contribution and leadership in supervision practice. As Director of Crucial Difference, she leads an international team providing supervision training for coaches and supporting leadership development across the helping professions and beyond.
A regular journal contributor, Jo is editor of 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.
Jo is committed to creating a more just and inclusive world. Having lived and worked in diverse inner city environments, she integrates multicultural learning into her work, delivering training in multiple languages (including English, Russian, and Chinese) and expanding her own cultural understanding through the study of Urdu and Spanish.
