Practice Review Consultation (PRC) and Supervision

"Adults do not learn by experience;
adults learn by reflecting on their experiences" - adapted from David Boud

Practice Review Consultation (PRC) and supervision embedded in a Solution-Focused Brief Approach (SFBA) offers you the opportunity to learn from your experience by

Reflecting on what already works well
Identifying your exisiting skills, capacities, qualities and resources
Identifying what you wish to improve and/or add
Designing possibilities to experiment with in your practice
Creating guidelines for noticing how your experiments are responded to
Selecting and integrating new options into your repertoire of practice

We work with individuals or with small groups. We aim to offer you the opportunity to engage with a spiralling process of continuous improvement that both maintains and develops your competence and your confidence. Contact us to discuss your particular needs, as well as your best hopes for monitoring and improving your practice.

SUPERVISION OPPORTUNTITIES

Solution-focused brief approach supervision for therapists, counsellors and coaches - supporting you in refining and expanding your practice

Are you looking to meet regularly with a group of fellow practitioners? Group supervision sessions offer opportunities to reflect, explore and share resources. These sessions will assist you in developing your knowledge and skills so as to offer services characterized by simplicity, which enable clients to make changes in their work and/or personal lives that make a significant difference.

Face-to-face sessions will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010. Group size is limited - contact us to check availability of places.Sessions start in January and run through to December in blocks of 5 sessions.

Virtual sessions by telephone, e-mail or skype are available.

For coaches see also the Brief Coaching PLUS opportunity - details on the Professional Training webpage (click here)

Supervision for psychologists

Svea van der Hoorn and Belinda Gottschalk (Druker) are both registered psychologists with the Professional Board for Psychology, Heaith Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). Svea is registered as an accredited supervisor with the NSW Psychology Resgitration Board in Australia.

FROM THE ARCHIVE - Examples of work done to date

FACILITATING GROUPS WITH CONFIDENCE - practice review consultation (PRC) and skills development for group work facilitators working in the Inner West and South Eastern Sydney

Tuesdays - 31 July, 28 August, 30 October, 27 November 2007

2.30 - 4.30pm at Croyden Health Centre, Liverpool Street, Croyden (Sydney)- plenty of free parking available

You're welcome to attend one or more sessions - just bring along your concerns, questions, ideas about what you'd like to try out, and stories of what works well for you when you facilitate groups.

This Group PRC opportunity is sponsored by the Inner West Small Grants Scheme of the Strengthening Families, Resourcing Parents Initiative. Attendance is free.

PRACTICE OPPORTUNITY - FOLLOW-UP ON HARVEY RATNER SEMINAR

Sharing ideas and practising skills – "What works with children, young people and families? Advances in Solution-Focused Brief Practice (SFBP).

A group of SFBA practioners got together at a practice opportunity on a cold and miserable Wednesday afternoon in Sydney. We discussed and experimented with how the ideas from Harvey Ratner’s seminar might be applied in our work. We used a small group activity to sweep in multiple perspectives, followed by SF interviewing to develop rich detailed pictures of what we had noticed and valued. Then some people used enactment to experiement with possibilities for their own future practice - others stayed with brainstorming and discussion to design options.

Thank you to Harvey Ratner, his colleagues at BRIEF, and their clients for sharing their work with us and prompting us to try some new possibilities of our own.