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Solution-focused supervision in Counselling/Welfare Agencies
presented by Michael Durrant
Many counselling/welfare agencies embrace Solution-focused and "strengths-based" principles in their work with clients. Indeed, "strengths-based" has become the most popular description of current approaches to service delivery. This two-day course explores the implications of Solution-focused thinking for supervising and managing staff within welfare/counselling contexts by looking at what it might mean to use the same philosophy and process in supervision of staff. If we are serious about trying to treat our staff in a way that is consistent with how we treat our clients, what difference might this actually make?
Participants will gain practical methods for working with staff in ways that enhance their sense of competence and effectiveness. A framework for supervisory conversations will be presented and its use in a variety of counselling/welfare contexts will be explored - including how "strengths-based" conversations can be used in potential disciplinary situations and/or where the organisation has a "bottom line" that is not open to negotiation.
Participants will learn practical methods for working with staff in ways that enhance their sense of competence and effectiveness.
The course will consider:
- How to have supervisory conversations that encourage supervisees to reflect on their work with clients in a way that uncovers new ideas and builds hope.
- Moving the focus of supervision towards discussing successes with clients and how this approach can assist supervisees to discover new ways forward with their more challenging clients.
- The role of supervisor as consultant rather than teacher and examples of how this works in practice.
- The importance of considering our own assumptions about the supervision process and how these will shape our supervisory practice (both positively and negatively).
- An overview of current supervision and management literature and how this knowledge translates into practice in the human services sector.
- How strengths based supervision is about much more then just "being positive" and still considers the realities of child protection risk and other legal and ethical imperatives.
Michael Durrant has presented versions of this training for a number of agencies, including training on strengths-based approaches to recruitment, clinical supervision and "performance counselling" to all managers and supervisors at UnitingCare Burnside, all supervisors in Human Services Victoria, all clinical supervisors at Centacare Wollongong, and elsewhere.
Parramatta — 17 & 18 June 2010 — NOTE changed dates— ($400 incl GST)
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