Deepening Supervisory Practise Steve Page 21 st April 2015

1.Be respectful of yourself and of other people, recognising others may be different to you. 2.Keep mobile phones and other communication devices switched off or on silent throughout the workshop. 3.Be willing to try out new things and assist and encourage others to try out new things, whilst not going further outside your comfort zone than you are willing to go. 4.Do not offer interpretation, advice or opinion on other people’s material unless that is part of your agreed role at that time. 5.Confidentiality: contain the content of what is talked about within the group in which it is discussed – this is particularly important with material from supervisions as there may be overlapping relationships within the room. 6.Please feel free to ask questions or make comments during the workshop. Please do not do so during exercises, unless your question is about how to proceed with the exercise. Ground rules

Focus Contract Bridge S pace Review The model behind this workshop - The Cyclical Model From: Page, S. & Wosket, V. (2014) Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist 3 rd ed., London: Routledge.

Awareness perspectives Bodily sensations within ourselves: breath, sensation, discomfort, movements, taste or smell. Non-verbal behaviour of our client/supervisee: breathing rate, colouration of exposed skin, movement, posture, eye- movement, etc. Thoughts: where they arise, what they contain, where they lead you, are they past, present or future focussed?. Feelings/emotions/moods: where you locate them, what they currently are, how much energy they carry, how quickly they fluctuate or change. Internal images: where do you see them, are they concrete or symbolic, snapshot or ‘video’? Phantasies (which may be intuitions): what comes ‘into mind’, what are you imagining, how does it or might it relate to the here and now? Audio material: what are you hearing, volume levels, changes to your auditory focus – e.g. suddenly noticing sounds from outside the room, auditory phantasy or ‘hallucination’ e.g. hearing a non-existent baby cry or a familiar piece of music?

Supervision exercise Supervisee: please present a piece of recent client work (i.e. counselling, therapy or coaching, not supervision) and do so briefly. Observers: please take one of the instructions from the poly-wallet. Follow those instructions during the supervision session that is about to take place. (For supervisors and supervisees – the observers are being asked to observe from a specific awareness perspective.) Supervisor: focus your interventions on the experience of the supervisee while with the client and the relationship between supervisee and client. If you want to, please feel free to also to try out one of the awareness perspectives. If you are doing that please let the others in the group know, so they can all pay attention to that and give you feedback on it.

Feedback Supervisor – your reflections on the session and your performance as supervisor. Supervisee – your experience and what worked well for you, anything that worked less well. Observers – please each give feedback specifically from the perspective on your instructions. Feedback: Clear Owned Relevant Balanced Specific

From observation to intervention Observation I suddenly find myself imaging putting my arm around my supervisee. Intervention I notice when you said XXXX that I felt concerned about you. This leaves me wondering how you felt when you said that?

What I will take away from this workshop These are just a few examples of what you might take away from today: An addition or change to my supervision contract New insight or understanding A commitment to practise a particular awareness perspective Greater willingness to experiment with interventions Asking supervisees for feedback about……

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