Within each session Wendy will always open with a general question about how the supervisee is and how they would like to use the time within the session.
Sometimes the nature of response in this introduction guides how the time needs to be spent but otherwise it is a quick way of checking the supervisee’s general mood and needs for the session.
Near the beginning of each session Wendy will remind the supervisee of the set of Actions that were agreed at the end of the previous supervision session and/or the summary of the key topics that were covered.
This acts as a prompt to revisit the actions for a progress update or to comment on how the discussion topic has been used since the last session.
Once the approximate agenda and the order of the items to discuss has been agreed, Wendy utilizes an active listening mode while the client talks through their issues. Wendy will ask clarifying questions and probe if more information is needed to properly understand what is being communicated.
She provides summaries at key points regarding what is being heard to test understanding and refocus discussion. Once all the information is clear, Wendy might make some observations or ask some additional questions about possible approaches or actions that they might make. Sometimes suggestions will be made regarding a resource, an introduction to a person or a suggestion about an exercise that might be useful. Quite often a reflective question might arise.
Occasionally Wendy will provide an observation about what she is hearing the supervisee say, or not say, or their emotional response to an issue. This might include reflection on previous actions or comments from earlier sessions.
Wendy is open to conversations that move in the direction of reflection about the supervisee’s actions, behaviour and responses to situations and the insights that they might be gaining about these including implications for their future professional practice.
She is seeking movement wherever possible in the direction of transformational learning. Opportunities for the supervisee to reflect on experiences in changes of thought, belief and behaviour are encouraged.
Wendy takes responsibility for managing the time and ensuring that the agreed issues have time to be explored as well as drawing conversations to a conclusion at appropriate points. Towards the end of each session Wendy draws attention to this and asks the client to form some agreed Actions for them to work on between sessions.
Records will be destroyed following a period of 5 years after the supervision has ceased. Arrangements to destroy all of these records as part of winding up WJQuinn Consulting have been made including upon death of the Supervisor.
