Meeting and Developing Your Own Inner-Supervisor
In the second session of this 2-part workshop series, Gillian Walter and Shirley Smith will build upon their creative interpretation of the 7-Eyed Model of Supervision. They will recap how this model facilitates powerful inner supervisor experiences, helping practitioners work with image and metaphor to support their supervision practice.
This session is designed as an experiential exploration into each participants’ inner-strengths and not as a lesson in the 7-Eyed Model of Supervision. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with creative tools, working through supervision cases while learning how to leverage their own inner critics as a resource. They will be guided to develop their inner-supervisor and explore how to bring their best selves into client work.
This is an experiential, hands-on session, encouraging playful, creative reflection with the 7 Eyed Model of Supervision as an example. We will not be teaching the model.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Connect with your own creativity through practical and creative supervision techniques.
- Use creative methods to overcome challenges and get unstuck in supervision.
- Learn how to bring your best self into supervision and client work by utilising inner resources and metaphors.
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?
- Access more creativity and deepen connection to ‘best self’ in supervision.
- 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:
- “This workshop was fantastic for allowing me to explore my questions creatively and to recognise that whilst my role is responsible, it doesn’t have to be so serious. We can create, explore and play!”
- “Engaging, creative, fun, therapeutic, and brilliant.”
- “Really engaging experience, connecting with other practitioners and reflecting in a creative way using the 7-Eyed Model.”
- “Gillian is a gifted speaker and presenter who inspires us to be better practitioners.”
- “The creative and imaginative way of sourcing insights was extremely helpful.”
- “Growing ease with working creatively and growing belief in self.”
- “Having a creative way of challenging my party pooper when it pops up.”
- “Discovering, acknowledging, and sharing my ‘BEST’ self.”
- “Interesting insights to be able to use with clients and in my own supervision.”
- “I now have confidence to use this as a newly skilled supervisor—getting a 360-degree view.”
- “Encouraged to explore using imagery in supervision in therapy work.”
Course Content
Organisation
Independent Supervisors Network hosts International Supervision Week with Onlinevents
Presenter
Gillian offers a safe space that’s held lightly. There’s room to explore with playful curiosity or serious conversation; whatever’s called for.
Gillian is a master coach, supervisor, mentor, artist, owner of Inside-Out Coaching and author of 7 Choir of Brave Voices books and creative reflection resources. Accredited by the ICF, EMCC, EASC and CSA, her client work stems from creative, narrative and somatic coaching and supervision methodologies with a specialisation in working creatively and supporting clients’ reflective practice. British born, she now lives and works in Switzerland with her family and Schnauzer.
Gillian works with creativity and metaphor to build safe and abundant space for working and thinking from new perspectives.
Shirley Smith is passionate about the potential of working with creative methodologies in supervision. She has been actively involved in enabling the ongoing development of leaders as a vehicle in support of wider culture and systemic change.
Shirley works mainly in multi-cultural environments around the globe from her current base in Vienna, Austria. She mainly provides supervision to individuals and small groups who are keen to access supervision as part of their own ongoing professional development and self-care. They also want to develop their own practice in working more ‘creatively’. She has been experimenting more recently with ways of making creative supervision accessible online and also with and without video. A kind of learning laboratory.
