What is supervision?

Supervision is a regular, ongoing relational practice that provides practitioners with a safe space for reflection: harnessing what goes well; unpacking challenges; developing professional goals; and recognising connections and strategies to resource and sustain self-care and care ethics. Fundamental to supervision is recognition that safe practice begins with self-awareness. Culturally safe supervision in Aotearoa includes the capacity to work in partnership with Māori, with awareness of te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori health, (in)equities, and social justice.

Who is this course for?

The course is designed to enable nurses, NPs and other health professionals who already have a strong grounding in their profession to be able to offer supervision to colleagues. The course is most suited to those who value empathic and courageous conversations and who want to support others in their career development.

What’s this course about?

This two-day highly interactive short course provides a community of supportive practice to explore a toolkit that equips health professionals with frameworks and key communication skills to facilitate professional supervision. The confidential small group context provides an excellent opportunity to experiment with all the components of supervision. This course does not include role-plays (acting out imagined scenarios) –participants in pairs share anonymised real-life situations.  Participants are provided with a soft-copy manual and are emailed relevant readings. This two-day short course with the additional readings amounts to 22 hours of professional development. A Certificate of Completion will be issued.

DATE & LOCATION

28 & 29 April 2025
Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre
58 Waipuna Road, Mt Wellington
Auckland 1060

 
8.45am - 4pm

Cost: $800 including gst covers morning and afternoon tea and lunch 

          *College member rate $750 including gst

SUPERVISION LEARNING OUTCOMES

Through participation in this course, you will be able to:

Cultivate an optimal relational climate for supervision

Facilitate critical reflection in supervision

Draw on strengths-based approaches and appreciative inquiry

Integrate activities that explore all dimensions of supervision practice

Identify the scope and boundaries of the supervisory role

Critically reflect on te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori health, diversity, and social justice within professional supervision practice

Identify the importance of Kaupapa Māori supervision and cultural supervision

Connect the significance of professional regulation to supervision

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

CATHERINE COOK (SHE/HER)

RN, RM, PhD M.Counselling

Catherine identifies as a Pākehā on a tangata Tiriti journey. After decades of clinical practice as a nurse, midwife, and counsellor she moved to an academic role and is currently an Associate Professor, teaching and researching in the School of Clinical Sciences at AUT. She has a strong interest in care ethics, human factors in healthcare and the role of critical reflection in enhancing communication and service-user safety. She has decades of experience providing professional supervision to a range of health professionals as part of her consultancy work. These supervision workshops, offered numerous times, have been evolving since 2014. Her commitment to adult teaching and learning principles ensures that this short course provides an engaging and supportive environment full of practice opportunities. Catherine’s facilitation approach to learning embraces the tuakana-teina concept, where we are all co-learners and co-teachers journeying together.