2025 Course Dates & Fees
We have now closed enrolments for 2025.
Please contact us if you would like to receive details about the 2026 course when the dates are released.
All training days are held on Fridays, 9.30am-5.00pm (Adelaide time).
Training can be attended in person in Adelaide or online via Zoom.
Course Fees include teaching materials, access to resource library and supervision
of your supervision practice with an experienced, supportive supervisor.
Earlybird: $2,580
Standard: $2,880
Please contact us if you would like to receive details about the 2026 course when the dates are released.
All training days are held on Fridays, 9.30am-5.00pm (Adelaide time).
Training can be attended in person in Adelaide or online via Zoom.
Course Fees include teaching materials, access to resource library and supervision
of your supervision practice with an experienced, supportive supervisor.
Earlybird: $2,580
Standard: $2,880
Course Information
This eight-month course is underpinned by both an emphasis on the use of science-informed theory and practice, and by our philosophy of supervision that values the supervision encounter as a listening space in which the respectful interplay of relationship enables therapeutic wisdom to emerge.
The course is designed to develop supervisory expertise, which supports the optimum expansion of supervisee competence. Enhancement of the supervisory relationship will be presented as fundamental to the development of excellence in supervision. Whilst various supervision theories and methodologies will be explored, the mapping and articulation of a personal supervisory model will be encouraged in order to maximise best practice as a supervisor.
The course will prepare participants to support the evolution of supervisee’s clinical skills, depth of psychological understanding and ethical practice in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy, psychology, social work, occupational therapy, mediation, mental health, pastoral care, dietetics and other people-based professions.
Coursework includes theoretical and experiential approaches, group interaction, short lectures, personal reflection, background reading, assignment preparation, and dynamic training interactions.
A practicum, conducted across the teaching months, provides the opportunity to apply learning and practice supervisory skills whilst being supported by an experienced supervisor along with peers.
The syllabus incorporates the science – research outcomes, identified competencies – and the art – practice-based evidence including multiple creative ways to be present in the moment to moment interactions with supervisees. Creative arts modalities that facilitate reflection, enable communication and clarify case conceptualisation will be used throughout the course.
The course is designed to develop supervisory expertise, which supports the optimum expansion of supervisee competence. Enhancement of the supervisory relationship will be presented as fundamental to the development of excellence in supervision. Whilst various supervision theories and methodologies will be explored, the mapping and articulation of a personal supervisory model will be encouraged in order to maximise best practice as a supervisor.
The course will prepare participants to support the evolution of supervisee’s clinical skills, depth of psychological understanding and ethical practice in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy, psychology, social work, occupational therapy, mediation, mental health, pastoral care, dietetics and other people-based professions.
Coursework includes theoretical and experiential approaches, group interaction, short lectures, personal reflection, background reading, assignment preparation, and dynamic training interactions.
A practicum, conducted across the teaching months, provides the opportunity to apply learning and practice supervisory skills whilst being supported by an experienced supervisor along with peers.
The syllabus incorporates the science – research outcomes, identified competencies – and the art – practice-based evidence including multiple creative ways to be present in the moment to moment interactions with supervisees. Creative arts modalities that facilitate reflection, enable communication and clarify case conceptualisation will be used throughout the course.
"Supervision: a haven where the practitioner's frustrations, anxieties and shortcomings are accepted, soothed and resolved." - Lawton, 2000
Core CompetenciesThe curriculum has been developed with reference to the University College London CORE Supervision Framework, the Australian Health Workforce National Clinical Supervision Framework, and the PACFA Supervision Competencies.
This course includes competencies in terms of skills, knowledge and values. Integral to the development of these competencies are the trainee supervisor’s capacities for self-awareness, self-assessment and mindful attentiveness. The course is designed to develop supervisor abilities to: · structure supervision sessions · give accurate and constructive feedback – with a range of methods · supervise across a range of therapeutic modalities · enhance ethical practice · form, maintain, and manage threats to a supervisory alliance · conduct supervision across a variety of client presentations · detect and support personal and professional issues which could impact on the supervisee’s capacities · reflect and act on limitations in own knowledge and experience · assess the supervisee’s level of competence · be aware of and act on potential sources of evaluation bias · conduct supervision across a variety of formats such as direct observation and web based technologies · Support supervisees to: - reflect on their work - present their clinical work - reflect on the supervision process - practice specific clinical skills - manage their caseload. Assessment TasksAssessment of participants is based on:
- levels of participation in learning activities - completion of 4 written assignments Assignment One: Learning Contract and Contracting Assignment Two: Generating Supervisory Documentation Assignment Three: Reflective Report: My Professional Identity as a Supervisor Assignment Four: Logs and Supervisory Profile Further details and guidelines for assessment tasks will be provided at the first training session. |
Course StructureThe course is presented in seven themed sessions plus a full practice day, each with recommended reading and is spread over eight months to facilitate learning and integration. Engaging in supervision practice outside of coursework hours is part of the training requirements.
1. Foundations for Supervisory Practice Course overview Philosophical underpinnings Defining supervision Becoming … a developmental perspective Establishing supervisory documentation 2. The Supervision Process Supervision session frameworks Developing a Theory Base Models of Supervision 3. Facilitating the Reflective Process Promoting Supervisee Reflection Reflective practice frameworks Moment-to-moment: The supervisor’s scaffolding skills Enriching the supervision process: Creative interventions 4. Orchestration and Enhancement of the Supervisory Relationship The Centrality of Relationship Creating the Interpersonal Environment Factors That Affect the Relationship Addressing Misattunements 5. Enhancing Ethical Supervision Practice Ethics and Ethical Maturity Ethics of Supervision: Codes Ethical Challenges in Being a Supervisor Competence in the Practice of Supervision 6. Supervisor Contexts and Professional Identity Supervising with groups Supervising within an organisation Supervising within a variety of formats, client presentations and therapeutic modalities Supporting caseload management 7. Legal Dimensions affecting supervision and Developing a Supervisor Identity and Practice Legal concerns and scope of supervision practice The Cost of Caring ~ Personal/Professional Wellbeing, Vicarious Trauma & Burnout Individual style and professional identity of the supervisor Review and Completion NB Supervisory Skills Practice is incorporated into all sessions |
