My approach to social work supervision is informed by my years of experience convening the final capstone course in the Master of Social Work program at Griffith University.  This course centred on the concept of awareness (drawing heavily from Gestalt Therapy).  The aim was to assist social work students who were on their final field placements to become more aware of the assumptions, beliefs, and values that were implicit in their way of making sense of what was happening, and in designing and implementing their interventions.  

At the conclusion of the course, students articulated their new awareness of how they were practicing in a practice framework presentation for their peers.  The aim of this important reflective process was for students to practice with awareness, and therefore to have greater choice and control over their work as practitioners.

The supervision service I offer privately follows a similar route.  We discuss experiences from a work context, and through use of my therapeutic skills, we unearth the values and beliefs that are implicit in your work.  This process is inevitably therapeutic in focus, as this process of discovery will often lead into an examination of formative life experiences that may have contributed to your ways of seeing and engaging in both work, and in your broader life.