Top Level Reflective Supervision & Coaching

Often times those working in a caring, leadership, support or teaching roles are unsupported in their work and can feel isolated, over-worked and stressed. Reflective supervision comes out of a counselling / psychotherapy background and has been designed to engage people in helping develop a professional identity as reflective practitioners.

The focus is on helping create and maintain a professional identity separate but imbued with a personal one. It is learning focused seeing reflective supervision as a learning experience that seeks to enrich the practitioner and ultimately provide a better service to the client(s).

Its focus is divided into three parts, firstly, providing a restorative space to hold and ‘process’ difficult emotional content. Secondly, there is a teaching / learning aspect where participants are invited to reflect and explore the context of their work and where they fit into this context. And thirdly, it provides a helicopter overview of the development and career goals of the participant, helping to evaluate progress, handle change and find a positive work life balance. It can be practised one-to-one or in a group format.

Registered with the Supervisory Association of Ireland.

To Book a 1-1 session ith John or explore the possibility for doing a group call John on 0866040988

“Finding balancing in home and work life”

So often those people who work on the ‘front-lines’ with others in caring, ministry, teaching and other professions have no where to turn to for their own professional support and development.

People find they are taking their work home either mentally, emotionally or even physically. This can cause stress, sleepless nights and in some unfortunate cases ‘burnout’ or addiction problems.

In other cases people bring their personal issues into work without realising it and ‘act out’ these dramas, biases or negative behaviours on their colleagues, clients or organisations.

Work then becomes a battleground fraught with anxiety, over stress and mental burdens that can cause harm to all involved.

For others their work loses its challenge, it becomes stale or unfulfilling, where nothing new is happening just the same old routine over and over. Some people feel isolated, unsupported or that the organisation or system is against them in some way.

Reflective Supervision has been created out of this calling. Based on a model of supportive supervision from the counselling / psychotherapy professions it aims to support these people professionally through the three functions of normative, restorative and formative responses.

The normative response looks at the organisational issues involved in a person’s work, what are the roles and dynamics of the job and how do these demands impact on the employee and clients?

The restorative response looks at ‘self care’, where work / life balance is adequately taking place and if not how this can be achieved.

The formative response looks at the ‘learning’ aspect of a person’s professional development. Here we explore how to create a professional persona or identity separate from but imbued with personal characteristics.

Themes explored during the work can be around learning, boundaries, ethics, emotional intelligence, contracting, communication skills, and awareness of biases, difference, organisational forces and many other areas.