HCA-Reflective supervision training for managers (2 -day training on 23 &24 of May)
Effective & Reflective Supervision – 2 day training.
When enrolled for 23rd May, you are enrolled for the 2 days of training (23rd & 24th May).
Supervision, both in name and practice is subject to competing tensions – between the
needs(for example) for support for individual supervisees and teams, the needs for
organisations to provide overview, quality assurance and evidence of its ‘work’, and of
course, the needs of service users and others for accountable and transparent process
and planning.
Supervisors themselves are likely to experience such tensions in terms of time (or lack of it), competing
work and professional priorities, recording (what and where?!), as well as (at times) keenly
feeling the ‘emotional labour and challenge’ of working in a field characterized by volatility,
uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
This course explores what supervision aims to achieve and how it might achieve it. It
develops an ‘integrated’ model of supervision – which is robust, and applicable both to
formal/ad hoc supervision, as well as to practice itself.
The course considers issues around ‘authority’ and supervision, the systemic nature of
supervision, and role of supervisors in ‘turbulent organisational environments’. The two
days provide opportunity to reflect on the kind of qualities needed by supervisors and
practitioners alike, which enable both to thrive (rather than simply survive) in such work
and the kinds of skills, knowledge and supervisory and organisational arrangements likely
to nurture and develop those qualities.
DAY 1 (23rd May) – develops the ideas and model with a mix of large and small group discussion,
paired work and some formal presentation
DAY 2 (24th May) – participants apply the model and ideas in practice in small groups or pairs; and
extends the model by looking at the impact of anxiety on supervision.
There are currently no dates for this event.