IntroductionThis course is specifically designed for those who have already completed the two-day training ‘Becoming an Effective Supervisor’ or have established supervision practices. It builds on the content of that training which, in summary, worked towards a philosophy of supervision and a series of interventions to help supervisors and supervisees use supervision in the best way possible (e.g. seven-eyed model, contracting, the psychological contract, evaluation and feedback and helping supervisees use supervision).

Some comments from this course indicate how helpful it was to participants:
“Excellent…. a huge amount of useful information”
“My expectations were high, and were met”
“Tremendously stimulating”
“Superb …loved its richness and complexity and the skilled way it was simplified”

The Programme
These two days training will take the Experiential Model of Learning as its basis and central model and look in depth at the various components of this learning cycle:

Doing the work

• How do we as supervisors support workers as they involve themselves and engage in their work?
• Do supervisees look after themselves?
• Where does their energy come from?
• How ethical and professional are they in their work?
• Do they have a model of ethical decision making for their practice?
• How can they work with the organisational contexts in which their work often occurs?

Reflecting on their work

• How can supervisors become facilitators of reflection?
• What is reflection?
• How help supervisees learn to reflect?
• Reviewing the various levels of reflection and helping supervisees learning to reflect in widening circles.

LearningThis section will look at how supervisees can be helped to continue to learn at different levels.
We will review the four levels of learning (routine learning, emotional learning, learning how to learn and transformational learning).  
These four levels will be applied to supervisory contexts.

Applying learning to workWe often make decisions without implementing them.  We get blocked in applying our learning to life and work. This section looks at those blocks and some of the skills needed to apply learning effectively over time.

Learning Objectives

• To be able to use the experiential learning cycle as a model for implementing effective supervision
• To review the skills and blocks at each stage of the experiential learning cycle
• To help supervisees move effectively through the stages of the experiential learning cycle in doing, reflecting, learning and applying learning
• To learn a model of ethical decision making in supervision based on an ethics of trust and relationship rather than simply duty
• To consider the organisational context in which work takes place and review how best to understand and work with organisations.
• To introduce Wilbur’s Integral Model as a holistic overview of supervision.
• To practice the skills of being a supervisor.

InputThe course will be delivered by Michael Carroll with a blend of input, small group discussion, experiential exercises, live supervision and full group plenary.