What is it that we are doing here?
Pause a moment. What IS supervision? Whats the contract you are making with your supervisor? Your supervisee? Your self? Why are you taking this hour, or 90 minutes, or afternoon out of your working day and attending this thing called supervision?
Maybe you are thinking the answer is obvious. And maybe it is. Let’s explore!
Once we have an idea of what we are doing, how are we going to stay on track?
This workshop today links to our simple rule:
⭐ Serve the intention
This means honouring the contract and agreed purposes in the enounter; being explicit, checking in with each other as necessary.
Supervision is often a longitudenal process – our supervisors/supervisees travel with us across time, and across our learning journey. What conversations need to be had now, that we couldnt have had before?
Has the contract between us changed?
What impacts the contract? Who pays? Who is the contract with/between? Who is responsible for what? What ‘promises’ are we making to each other as we contract?
Let’s see where we get to as we open an exploration of this topic as it relates to supervision.
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.
