Insight Take a Deep, Clear Look at How You Coach®

“If self-awareness is a journey, insights are the “aha” moments along the way.” -Tasha Eurich

Supervision is a place for reflective practice in which we can pause and consider who and how we are as a practitioner.

My thesis opens the doors and windows to the virtual rooms in which small supervision groups convened, adding to the collective knowledge about the artful craft and challenges of supervising; the development of the supervisory relationships; the groups’ processes and learning over a year; and the complexities that were present in virtual small group work.

Key findings include: 

• Supervisory relationships are the most important qualities and conditions that create enough safety in the supervision relationships within a group to enable self disclosure, reflection and learning.
• There are three distinct levels of contracting which contribute to the cocreation of safe and trusted space within the group.
• The safe and trusted space is a living organism that fluctuates for individuals (including the supervisor) and for the group. It requires stewardship.
• It was shaped and reshaped by experiences: individual narratives and circumstances prior to and within the group; interactions, content and processes within the session; length of time together and the influence of societal, national and global developments.

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