In this interactive first part of a 2-part workshop series, Gillian Walter and Shirley Smith introduce a creative and refreshing interpretation of Hawkins and Shohet’s 7-Eyed Model of Supervision, inspired by the world of Winnie the Pooh. In this workshop, Gillian will share how she developed a metaphorical approach to the model, making it both powerful and playful, designed to bring out the inner supervisor and open up new possibilities in supervision.
Participants will engage with metaphors, perspectives, and creative tools to help deepen their reflective practice and find new ways of being present in client sessions and reflective practice. The Winnie the Pooh stories serve as a backdrop to illustrate ideas, but participants do not need to know the model or the stories.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Using metaphors and creative exploration to unlock new perspectives in supervision cases
- Explore how to creatively bring models to life in client supervision work.
- Noticing and creatively working with assumptions and inner-critic ‘Party Poopers’
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Practitioners in the people professions such as Coaches, Supervisors, Counsellors, and Therapists.
- Those looking for fresh approaches to supervision and reflective practice.
- Professionals open to using creative, metaphorical, and playful techniques to enhance their sessions.
- This session is about playful exploration using this model and the Winnie the Pooh stories as examples. Anyone who prefers a more academic understanding of the 7-Eyed Model of Supervision or wants an idea of who the Winnie the Pooh Characters and stories are, can find this information online and in the Onlinevents CPD library.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
Attendees will leave with:
- A raised sense of creative presence in their client work.
- New ways to approach supervision cases, less about “getting it right” and more about being present.
- Confidence in using creative tools, such as imagery, story, and metaphor.
- A fresh approach to the 7-Eyed Model, allowing flexibility and a light-hearted, exploratory practice.
Participant Feedback Highlights:
- “Using a creative approach has opened up my practice. My inner child came alive, and I’m so excited to use these tools in supervision!”
- “A fresh way to engage with the 7-Eyed Model, less about rules, more about being present.”
- “This event made me rethink how I approach supervision. I’m more curious and willing to explore new lenses.”
- “The workshop made supervision fun! It’s transformed my perspective.”
- “A creative, insightful, and enjoyable way to deepen reflective practice and boost confidence.”
- “I left with a sense of ease, not needing to hold the model rigidly in my mind.”
Course Content
Organisation
Independent Supervisors Network hosts International Supervision Week with Onlinevents
Presenter
Gillians is a coach, supervisor, mentor and author accredited by the ICF, EMCC, EASC and CSA.
She is the owner of Inside-Out Coaching and Brave Voice Books. British-born, she now lives and works in Switzerland.
Gillian’s first book Choir of Brave Voices is a light-hearted, yet transformational, seasonal journey…speak from our most authentic Brave Voice’ calms stress, deepens reflection, widens perspectives and increases mental, emotional and physical resourcefulness.
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.
