This course prepares you for the rewarding role of supervisory work. The practice based emphasis of the course enhances your confidence and competence.
Philosophy of the course
This course is suitable for consultants and supervisors of consultants and supervisors of counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, probation officers and others in the helping professions. The course is based upon an integrative relational approach to supervision and supervisory practice. It is therefore not linked to any particular orientation of counselling or psychotherapy, but rather presents a model of supervision as a discipline in its own right. The course is aimed at practitioners in all different fields of work and with different theoretical approaches to counselling, psychotherapy and other forms of clinical practice. It aims to bring together helping professionals of different orientations so that they can dialogue about both their commonalities and differences in the theory and practice of supervision.
Aims of the training programme
To provide participants with the theoretical basis and practical skills in supervision so that they can practice independently or in professional association as supervisors for practitioners in the helping professions. This standard is equivalent to that required by other professional associations for the accreditation of supervisors.
To create a structured learning experience that provides models or frameworks of working knowledge and skills, resulting in a coherent and cohesive approach to the supervision of trainees or practising professionals.
To develop in participants the supervisory competences as outlined in the ‘The competences framework for supervision’, published by Centre for Outcomes, Research & Effectiveness (CORE) from which will be derived the ‘National Occupational Standards’ for the practice of supervision.
In the light of the seniority of the practitioners generally participating in the course, a particular emphasis is placed on the sharing and exchange of accumulated knowledge and expertise. The diversity of professional backgrounds and theoretical orientations provides a richness of experience, challenge and opportunity to participants.
Objectives for participants:
- To understand a range of the basic theoretical models of supervision and to be able to compare and contrast them.
- To build up the systematic skills required of a supervisor in individual, group and organisational settings (the course does not provide instruction about specific therapies).
- To set up, maintain and terminate a working alliance with supervisees that takes into consideration their learning needs and developmental stage.
- To develop the ability for evaluating supervisees and writing appropriate reports.
- To look at appropriate learning styles and to be able to negotiate individual learning needs with supervisees.
- To monitor the supervisee’s work so that the client is getting the best service possible and the supervisee is developing as a professional person.
- To evaluate their own supervisory practice generally and in particular in relation to the CORE Competence Framework(s) for Supervision
Entry requirements
Applicants must be qualified practitioners in a helping profession, for example psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists or social workers, who are firmly grounded in their own orientation to clinical practice. All applicants must attend an introductory workshop.
Curriculum
The curriculum has been carefully chosen to fulfill the course Aims and Objectives as earlier described. The course content has evolved from relevant texts and research in the area of supervision, as well as our considerable experience in the field. We have made adjustments to both the course content and the structure of the training modules in response to feedback and requests from the participants. We regard this dialogue as an essential part of our training process. Training Programme Design
Training Course Structure for Certificate
The course has been structured on a 2-day modular basis, spaced approximately monthly to make it more easily possible for professionals, who are not London based, to attend the course. There is an introductory module followed by five further 2-day modules. The Introductory module serves to provide participants with an overall experience of the teaching style and a brief coverage of the topics later expanded upon in the subsequent five modules. It is an opportunity for a mutual assessment of the suitability of the course for the candidate. Progression by mutual agreement onto the main body of the course requires a commitment to completion of the remaining five modules. There is a considerable course emphasis on the practice of supervision. To facilitate this there is an opportunity on
Modules 2 – 6 for live practice on each day of the course. This takes the form, on one of the days in each module, of working in small groups of three or four where live supervision is conducted with feedback from those peers present. On the alternate day of each module, live practice is conducted in a larger group (usually 7 to 9 participants) where supervision of supervision can be practiced and can be received.
Teaching days start promptly at 9.30 and end at 5.30 (5.00 on Sundays)
Theoretical Focus of the Six Basic Modules
Tutor: Paul Hitchings
Introductory workshop
Historical overview and scope of supervision in the helping professions. An overview of the different elements of the supervisory process. This is the mutual assessment module. This introductory workshop is for counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists and others in the helping professions. It will introduce major areas of the theory and practice of supervision from an integrative relational perspective. We will include methods of supervision, choosing priorities in supervision, values and ethics, range and flexibility of interventions, transference, countertransference and parallel process, as well as practical skill-focused work. A central feature of the workshop is that it is designed to accommodate and expand individual learning styles. The Introductory Workshop serves as the first module of the Supervision Course.
Introductory workshop dates:
| 2012: | 10/11 September, 15/16 December |
Certificate in Supervision Course dates
Module 2: 19/20 January 2013:
A review of different conceptual models of supervision in the literature, models of Developmental Stages through which beginning supervisees progress, and differences in learning styles. Contracting and the Supervisory Working Alliance.
Module 3: 16/17 February 2013
Methods, goals, and interventions in group and individual supervision. Supervising Time-Limited and Brief Term Therapy. Creative interventions in Supervision.
Module 4: 16/17 March 2013
Transference, countertransference and parallel process in supervision.
Module 5: 18/19 May 2013
Contextual factors and issues of difference (race,culture, disability, etc.) Ethical and professional issues.
Module 6: 15/16 June 2013
Evaluation of process and outcome in Supervision. Student Presentations.
Participants are supplied with a general reading list, hand-outs on material of interest andspecific reading assignments related to the topics under discussion in a particular module.
Certificate requirements
Two pieces of written work (each 2000 words) are required, which can be submitted during the course or up to two months after the end of the formal course.
These are:
‘My Philosophy of Supervision’.
An essay relating experience of delivering supervision gained during course practice(or in another setting) to a model(s) of the supervisory process.
*Course attendance at all six modules and completion of the written work leads to achievement of the Certificate.
Supervision Certificate awarded by Metanoia Institute
Training Structure for Diploma
Achievement of the Diploma requires further training and practice which involves: - Achievement of 40 Hours practice as a Supervisor.
- Submission of a log – to include brief notes on the 40 hours of supervision given.
- Achievement of 15 hours Supervision of your Supervision (individually or in small groups).
- Attendance at two (two-day) Advanced Supervision workshops; the first will be on an advanced supervision topic and the second will take the form of a practicum at which all participants will demonstrate their practice of supervision in a live session of 20 mins duration.
- One 4000 word process report i.e. a commentated/reflective account of the transcript from the practicum; reflections on the feedback you received from the group; and an outline of your growth points for the future.
- A satisfactory report from the supervising supervisor. Participants usually gain supervisory experience in their own work contexts and engage their own supervisor for their supervisory work externally to Metanoia Institute. Supervision maybe practiced and/or achieved either individually or in small groups.
Breakdown of hours over the TWO YEARS
Certificate Year
Tutor course hours 84 hours
Reading time 80 hours
Written work 16 hours
Total 180 hours:
Certificate in Supervision awarded by Metanoia Institute
Diploma Year
Attendance at two 2-day Advanced Modules 28 hours
Supervised supervision 15 hours
Supervision practice 40 hours
Reading time 80 hours
Written work 32 hours
Total 195 hours:
Total over two years: 375 hours
Diploma in Supervision awarded by Metanoia Institute
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