The workshop provides a practical hands-on approach to supervision work with novice counsellors (and similar mental health workers) in both an individual and a group supervisory environment. Contexts include individual supervision for privately practicing novices as well as community-based workers. Equally, group considerations encompass newly practicing professional group settings, assessed training supervision environments, and community agency groups that may include a mixture of seasoned professionals with either placement students and/or professional beginners. The goal of the session is to provide an Introductory How To that will both set a foundation as well as supplement current novice individual and group supervisions experience. Exploration of our own past experiences as novices in supervision and current experiences in supervising novices will assist in identifying our preferred approaches. It will be hypothesized that just as our attractions to therapeutic modalities offer important professional reflections, so too might our inclinations in supervising others.
The approach will also take a decidedly attachment-informed and trauma-informed perspective, setting out how supervision with novices may function as a secure base and safe haven. The objective of such an approach within supervision is to promote learning, increase critical self-awareness and enhance confidence in novice participants. Matters of safety, contracting and expectation setting become critical where novice (and supervisor) vulnerabilities are at play. The need to provide direction in initial sessions will be explored, making space for a range of different responses. Thereafter, particular focus will be given to setting a course for a gradual evolution of pace and depth of process. Equally, understanding how to set up a dynamic that permits a ‘good enough’ shift focus from internal to external and from the individual to group In addition to covering the basics for both individual and group process and identifying typical novice needs, two sorts of potentially parallel supervisor skill challenges will receive attention within the seminar: (1) addressing disruptive or confusing behaviours as platforms for individual and/or group growth, and (2) engaging both the individual supervisee and the group supervisees to embrace their vulnerabilities when discovering how client’s worlds may be more burdensome and lacking in hope. Case vignettes will be employed to promote deeper engagement with these two critical areas.
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| Pre-reading doc 1 - Goodyear 2014 (287.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Pre-reading doc 2 - 12-tips-2014 (106.6 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Kevin Keith PhD BBA (Hons) (University of North Texas 1973); MA and STL (University of Louvain, Belgium, 1986 & 88); MPhil (Oxford University, 1991); Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy (Jansen Newman Institute, 2005); PhD (University of Sydney, Faculty of Science, 2017). Kevin is a counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and academic. He divides time between private practice, education/academic activities, and an emerging retirement. Kevin has practiced counselling in Australia for 16 years. He has previously been a lecturer at the Jansen Newman Institute (JNI) and Australian College of Applied Psychology (ACAP). In 2017, he completed his PhD at the University of Sydney (School of History and Philosophy of Science) with primary research interests in Attachment Theory. His thesis—The Goal-Corrected Partnership: A Critical Assessment of the Research Programme—brings a focus to attachment development post-infancy. This work also rearticulates Attachment Theory in light of advances in the lifespan developmental sciences, especially approaches to biological complexity. He remains a research affiliate for the School of HPS at the University of Sydney. Kevin presents regularly on Attachment Theory and other matters to a wide range of audiences. He is member of several professional and academic societies, including ones with focus on emotions research, trauma, psychiatry, and philosophy. He is acclaimed as an engaging and inspiring presenter whose seminars change the way therapists perceive and work with their clients in ways that surprise and delight.
Speaker Disclosures:
“Supervision with novices can be a very rewarding personal/professional experience.” Kevin Keith
How will participants benefit from attending this presentation?
Morning Session (includes a short break)
Afternoon Session (includes a short break)
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Experienced, Beginning and Training Supervisors with some familiarity/experience with basic approaches to individual/group supervisory work as past participants and/or current practitioners'
Morning Session
9:00am - 12:45pm
Includes a 15 minutes break at 10:45am
Lunch Break
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Afternoon Session
1:45pm - 5:00pm
Includes a 15 minutes break at 3:15pm
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