SupervisionBuilding Strengths, Developing Competencies: A Two Day WorkshopThis 2-day training will explore how a strengths-based philosophy can be extended into and utilised by those in supervisory roles to provide focused supervision that not only leads to better and safer practice, but also improves job satisfaction and agency culture as a result. Participants will learn practical methods for working with staff in ways that enhance their sense of competence and effectiveness.
Some of the areas Michael will cover include: - 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 than just “being positive” and still considers the realities of child protection risk and other legal and ethical imperatives.
Michael Durrant is a Psychologist and Australasia's leading international trainer of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. He is director of the Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney, past-President of the Australasian Association for Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and previously a faculty member in Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Michael has extensive experience applying SFBT to the consequences of various kinds of trauma.. >Read More.... | 
