OUR AIMS
To see robust, good quality, long-term supervision exist across all teams who work to support or educate others.
To support workplaces to work in an ethically mature way. Supervision assists in the development of ethical teams and places of work. People who are respected and regulated are best able to be in the service of others. Services are more likely to be “safe” where there is a culture of openness and where it is OK to professionally “not know”.
That senior leaders who are in fulfilling supervision themselves will want to embed supervision in their organisation not just as a tick box exercise. Here supervision can be damaging, exposing and does harm. We safeguard against any potential damage from paying lip service to supervision by ensuring our supervisees agree to a minimum amount of sessions per year. We have found 9/10 sessions per year works best.
Thoughts on clinical supervision…. Entering into it for the first time I struggled to understand how it would be different from leadership coaching…. It is different. For the first time last month, during a particularly stressful time, I looked for when the next session was in my diary. Being supervised effectively gives emotional support just by knowing you have a session coming up when you will have an opportunity to share. With a good supervisor, it is comforting to hear the issues you bring are common among leaders of schools and my emotional response is rational to the situation I find myself in. Kind regards Pete
Pete (Executive Principal)