Peer Supervision: Exploring the Positives and Pitfalls & Making it Work

Peer Supervision: Exploring the Positives and Pitfalls & Making it Work

This is a short CPD workshop. There is a presentation plus practically trying out strategies.

The informal, supportive chat about something which has happened at work is one of our strengths as a profession. Endless support is given over a quick chat and a coffee (or altenrnative). We are good at this in SLT.

This probably doesn't count as supervision - often because someone is worried or wondering why a situation happened and as a 'supportive friend' we are helping them worj through feelings soon after something happened and saying - 'it's ok'

Or we have a peer supervision relationship with a colleague and it is a great space for sharing expieriences and we think of it as supervision. Yet if we are honest is there any reflection or learning. Is our peer asking us curious questions and enabling us to see different perspectives?

Or are we taking this role so serioulsy that we are 'over asking' questions?

Being aware of reflective cycle and having ideas for curious questions can transform a conversation into a guided conversation and ... voila ...into supervision. Utilising the support/challenge matrix and being aware of your own comfort zone and easing out of it to be an effective peer supervisor.

Peer supervision can be successful for 1 to 1 and groups but there needs to be an element of structure.