Group Supervision
What is group supervision?
Group supervision is different to individual supervision, in that it provides different possibilities for learning. As with any group, it can provide normalising and validation of your experiences as a professional and as a human doing this work. Your self-awareness and learning can be greatly amplified through hearing others’ experiences, challenges and wins in the work, and sharing processes, resources and practice goals.
Groups also help to navigate questions of privilege, entitlement and unconscious bias.
In group supervision settings, every individual benefits by engaging with, and reflecting upon, their own practice, no matter whose client/experience is being explored directly. Through group supervision, we can recognise themes in the work, our practice and identity as therapists, and benefit from the growth and learning of others.
Successful groups are built on a foundation of trust
To create trust, we will incorporate agreements about confidentiality, non-judgemental reflection, authentic communication, self-responsibility and transparency.
Once safety and trust are established, your development within the group will be supported by processes including narrative reflective practices like ‘outsider witnessing’, storytelling, art therapy tools, dream and individual/ archetypal symbol exploration and physical embodiment/ movement processes.
How group supervision works online
As part of your membership, conveniently book into the session time that suits you via the calendar in your membership portal. Group supervision sessions run for 2 hours. Two people are invited to present cases, in the understanding that all will engage in active reflection that will help you to understand your own process and clients. Sessions are based in reflective practice, narrative techniques including ‘outsider witness’, and are very effective in all members gaining benefit whether presenting a client or not, and combating isolation through seeing, hearing and feeling others’ experiences of the work. The group is able to also help hold the individual impact of stories, cases and systems that may be contributing to burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. If there are risk issues identified that require further action, supervisor will follow up with the individual practitioner to make a plan/undertaking.
- Supportive and confidential
- Counteracts isolation in the work
- Validates your experiences
- Expands your knowledge, sharing, experience through interacting with therapists from other workplaces
- Conveniently book into times that suit you
supportive and confidential
A space where you can freely explore your experiences in the work and how this impacts your body, emotions, electromagnetic field, nervous system.
learn and grow with others
Through hearing others’ experiences, challenges and wins in the work, and sharing processes for expanding your awareness, your practice goals, self awareness and learning can be greatly amplified.
authentic validation
Hearing others reflect on their work through our cases and experiences, and giving positive feedback, is extremely validating and can bypass our often harsh inner critic.