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Strengths-based supervision: reflecting on practice

This strengths-based supervision workshop explores strengthening reflective practice, developing supervision skills, and supporting effective team leadership. Supervision plays a pivotal role in professional development, and  strengths-based approach supervision can be highly effective and rewarding with its focus on shared responsibility, shared learning and shared leadership. 

It is designed to re-energise your approach to supervision. It creates a space to explore supervision that values collaboration, mutual respect, careful reflection and constructive challenge.

You’ll build skills in supervision in a format that is collaborative and conversation-based. There will be lots of opportunity to ask questions, learn from peers and become confident using the resources.

The workshop provides:

  • a space to explore what a strengths approach can bring to supervision
  • the opportunity to develop and practice skills used in supervision
  • an environment of respect, inspiration, challenge and support
  • a focus on the structure of supervision, our place within that structure, and creating transparency
  • exploration and reflection of our own abilities as a supervisor.

Suitable for:

  • Human Service workers and teams
  • Supervisors, Managers and team leaders
  • Team leaders in counselling and psychology services
  • Child, Youth and Family services
  • Mental Health services
  • Justice services

Reimagining supervision through connection, creativity and care

Supervision is an important part of any human services role—whether it be as the supervisor or supervisee—but not every experience is positive. Clinical supervisor, Jess Marsh, has developed a way to make supervision a safe, creative and unique experience for everyone involved.

When Jess Marsh first stepped into a leadership role, she did what many do—she figured it out as she went. Like countless professionals thrust into supervisory positions, she hadn’t experienced good supervision herself, let alone clinical supervision.

“‘I remember thinking, what am I even meant to be doing?’ she recalls. ‘I struggled a lot with imposter syndrome and just hoped I was doing a good job.’” Read more

Parents and carers want to give their children the best start in life. One simple way they can do this is by helping children recognise and manage their feelings, body signals and reactions. As teachers, social workers, counsellors and wellbeing staff, we can support parents and carers with information, ideas and simple, practical strategies to implement at home.

Social and emotional literacy is the ability to understand, manage, and express emotions effectively; fundamental skills for building healthy relationships and navigating social interactions in everyday life.

In this workshop, we’ll explore how practitioners can encourage parents and carers to learn about, model and support their child’s social and emotional development.

What to expect

  • An introduction to social and emotional literacy: understanding emotions, empathy, self-awareness, and interpersonal communication.
  • Suggestions and ideas for how parents and carers can be their child’s first ‘social and emotional literacy’ teacher.
  • Activities to help children recognise and regulate their feelings, build empathy and create healthy, respectful connections with others.
  • Practical strategies to recognise and reframe anxiety and other challenging feelings.
  • Opportunities to share experiences, insights, and challenges related to social-emotional wellbeing.
  • An exploration of a variety of Innovative Resources tools and card sets.
  • Take-home resources: handouts or materials to reinforce learning and continue practicing skills outside the workshop setting.

Resources

  • Strength Cards® for Kids
  • Strength Cards® Unlimited
  • The Bears
  • Funky Fish
  • Can-do dinosaurs
  • Cars ‘R’ Us
  • Paperworks
  • Anxiety Solutions
  • Anxiety Solutions for kids

Suitable for

  •  Social workers
  • Child, youth and family workers
  • Health workers
  • School counsellors
  • Teachers
  • Wellbeing staff
  • Early year’s professionals
  • Counsellors