05 Oct Creative Supervision Conversations for Therapists and Coaches
How can creativity be catalysed in supervision? Taking an imaginative slant to a supervision issue loosens up thinking quickly and can introduce humour and playfulness into the session. Putting an entirely different conceptual frame around the situation can be enlightening and fun. Paradoxically, this is particularly useful when the mood has become overly heavy and serious. This course provides creative ideas for any supervisory relationship, whether the supervisee or supervisor are finding they’re hitting roadblocks, on the border of burnout, or having issues within the supervisory relationship. Good clinical supervision relies on the relationship between supervisor and their supervisee. No matter what the supervisory relationship, whether it’s online supervision, supportive supervision, clinical supervision, or professional supervision, it’s imperative for it to provide an environment for building a fundamentally supportive relationship to yield better results for the practitioner, the client, and the supervisor.
Often times in supervision, if we look at things differently we will achieve a different outcome. This Creative Supervision Conversations course will provide different methods, perspectives and ideas for your future supervision practice, or sessions with your supervisor, or supervisee. This course will enrich you and will provide techniques and ideas to increase your effectiveness as a supervisor and to help your supervisee grow professionally with ease. All therapists, supervisors and coaches can benefit from this course as it will assist with different and creative perspectives, particularly in a time of grief, loss and trauma that we have had throughout the world, post-COVID.
You will learn how to start new conversations in your supervisory sessions and how reflective supervision can enhance the supervisory relationship. You will uncover a different, creative model of supervision that will expand your therapeutic or supervisory practice to include creative thinking and curiosity. The course will also explore ideas for self-care that go beyond standard approaches. As a supervisee, you will explore modes and new ideas for working with your supervisor to get the most out of supervision. It is a course for both the supervisor and the supervisee to learn from.
As a supervisor, you will extend your repertoire significantly to meet every challenge of a professionally difficult conversation but in such a way that the relationships and trust will grow rather than suffer. Observations of modern practice and possible future ways forward will be explored. All this will be illustrated by case studies of creative therapeutic practice and how best to supervise creative practitioners to let them spread their wings.
You will be required to learn as you go through doing various exercises, so prepare to stop the recording at times and do the work. It will be fun! We have added two learning hours to this recording so that you are provided to with space to learn, reflect and improve through analysing various approaches and techniques.
- Start new conversations in your supervision sessions
- How reflective supervision can enhance the supervisory relationship
- Uncover a different, creative model of supervisor practice
- Expand your therapeutic or supervisory practice to include creative thinking and curiosity
- Ideas for self-care that go beyond standard approaches
- Modes of working with your supervisor to get the most out of supervision
- Focused new ideas and questions for your supervision sessions, either with your supervisor, or with your supervisees
- Ways of working with supervisors and supervision to extend your repertoire
- Observations of modern practice and possible future ways forward
- Look at Case studies of creative therapeutic practice and how best to supervise creative practitioners
- How working creatively in times of grief, loss and trauma can improve outcomes for clients, supervisees and supervisors
Renée McDonald, MAppSocSc, Post-Grad Dip Couns, B Couns (Coaching)
Renée has been a Counsellor and Psychotherapist for over 19 years. She is a PACFA Clinical Counsellor, Psychotherapist, an Accredited Supervisor, degree qualified and trained Coach and mentor to hundreds of clinicians in the field.
She is a Senior Professional Member and Registered International Online Clinical Supervisor with the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO), as well as running an ACTO approved, internationally accredited online therapy training company. She is an experienced academic educator, trainer and assessor and runs her own training company, Australian Online Therapy Training (AOTT).
She has additionally worked in a variety of roles in the community, along with teaching and training future community workers, counsellors and psychotherapists for over 15 years, including ACAP, and in a variety of other large educational institutions.
In 2019, (with a re-print in 2020), she launched her textbook; Online Therapy: Processes, Tasks, Integration and Energetic Holding, based on her research, practice experience and training in the Online Therapy and Telehealth space.
This online workshop will give you instant access to 4 sessions of video content, accessible via streaming on our website, as well as downloadable PowerPoint slides and other materials.
You can view the course content in your own time, there is no time limit on access.
The duration of this workshop is 3 learning hours including video running time and study/reflection. A certificate of completion will be generated upon finishing the course and a short open-ended evaluation quiz. Please consult your professional organisation/association to confirm whether you are able to claim any CPD points/hours for this online workshop.
