Supervision

Nurturing support, psychological safety and learning among professionals

13-17 May 2024, Gouda, Netherlands
9-13 December 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark

About the course

This course offers counsellors, coaches, head teachers and various other professionals to develop their competences to supervise colleagues and other professionals.
Working with counselling, coaching, special needs education never becomes routine work. You can easily be emotionally affected, the focus person’s or student’s situation affects you, or you doubt how to handle certain dilemmas or your own abilities to do the right thing - perhaps you feel powerless. In addition, in a group of counselling colleagues or special education teachers there may be a need to talk together about how to coordinate in relation to special tasks, interpret guidelines or become better at supporting each other.
Group supervision is a framework for emotional support, learning, competence development and sharing of knowledge, which is particularly used within the psychosocial field - e.g. of people who work with people and use themselves as tools (coaches, counsellors, psychologists, teachers in special education etc.).

The course will give you...

• Insight into the theoretical foundations of social constructionist theory and how it is applied to supervision
• A chance to practice questioning techniques needed for supervision (that draw out resources, create new perspectives and alternative ways of dealing with difficulties)
• To become familiar with supervision and collegial supervision methods (mainly social constructionist, systemic and narrative methods) and thus different ways of involving colleagues in reflection and sharing of experience and knowledge
• To be able to offer a conversation among colleagues that is safe, appreciative and supportive, where staff members can share doubts and dilemmas, and develop their professional competences
• An ability to distinguish between different challenges – at individual or team-level; related to systems or identity, and choose supervision method accordingly
• A possibility to have a look at your own doubts and dilemmas through participating in group supervision
• Reflections on how to bring the learning home and implement it adequately into the local context

The course fee for this five day course is 775 Euro, which can be almost fully covered by an Erasmus+ grant (plus travel and stay). Of course, our courses are open to anyone, also without Erasmus+ grants!

Read more about this course here.

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