Francesca Inskipp, Brigid Proctor, Penny Henderson
Continuing Professional Development Workshops
Presenters known nationally and internationally for their work in supervision are invited to offer workshops. These are aimed to be of interest to all supervisors, or supervisors in training, regardless of approach.
Supervision of Supervision
Supervision of Supervision (SoS) plays a central role in the CST Diploma training. Small participative groups with a skilled training supervisor facilitating, offer rich opportunities for ongoing professional development in a resourceful and encouraging setting.
CST also offers tailor-made SoS groups for health and social care practitioners as well as self-employed or agency counsellors in the Cambridge area.
What is Supervision of Supervision?
Penny Henderson writes in her book
A Different Wisdom (Karnac 2009): "Supervision of supervision invites the supervisor to stay alert to monitoring the competence, efficacy, and impact of their own supervision practice. Wheeler and King (2001 pp 168-179) identified the issues most commonly discussed in consultative supervision. They were ethics, boundaries, competence of supervisees, and training. Contracts and the supervisee-client relationship arose, but less frequently. Collegiality is more likely to characterise this relationship. Ideally congruence will too."
"Group supervision of supervision is particularly useful because it provides multiple perspectives for problem solving and for feedback. Often the focus is about themes and general principles or professional or ethical issues. Because group members are all experienced practitioners, any variety in their responses can be particularly useful to identify parallel process or to debate complicated and multi-faceted dilemmas."
Henderson, P. (2009). A Different Wisdom. London: Karnac.
Becoming a Supervisor