We are now offering the opportunity to train face to face in London for the complete programme September 2026 - July 2027.
We have also added online supervision courses for the complete programme starting January 2026 - July 2027.
This is a modular programme with accumulative learning which can be taken over a flexible period of time, from a minimum of a year upwards. The process we have embraced is self, peer, supervisor and supervisees assessment. We have found that this keeps the process in relationship and maximises the learning. The reputation of the courses and their history has enabled graduates to use their attendance as a recognised supervision training and they report that our training has qualified them for the work they have wanted to do in the field of supervision. We aim to provide the requirements for professional accreditation as supervisors including those of BACP, UKCP and BPS.
The Certificate consists of four modules and 50 hours supervision practice and 10 hours of Supervision on the supervision practice.
Four modules to be attended in this order:
1. Core
This is the first part of the four-stage supervision training. The module will include:
CLEAR model of supervision:
Contracting with particular reference to stakeholders and the wider system
Listening as a supervisor to all levels including to the ‘field’
Exploring with the appropriate balance of participation and reflection
Action including rehearsal of future scenarios
Review including links to a wider context
- Exploration of core beliefs, limiting mindsets and reactive patterns
- Development of the 'internal supervisor'
- Feedback skills
- The supervisory relationship, the working alliance, and the triadic constellation
- Practice sessions with feedback in small groups.
2. Therapeutic - The Seven-Eyed Model
This module is for those who are currently supervising. The module will include:
- Maps and models of the supervision process
- Developmental model of supervision
- Experiential model as described in (2020) Shohet R & Shohet J In Love with supervision; creating transformative conversations
- Opportunities to work in triads, as supervisor, supervisee, and observer
- An exploration of contracting for different types of supervision
- Managing supervision boundaries
3. Group
- Contracting
- Using the resources of the group
- The different facilitator styles in group supervision
- How group dynamics affect group supervision
- Practice sessions with feedback
- Balancing individual, group, and task needs
- Application of the seven eyed model to Group Supervision
4. Advanced/Integration
This is the final part of our training for those who have completed the other modules. The module is run in the form of a learning community. As well as input from the tutors, members take responsibility for their own and each other’s learning.
The module will include:
- Inter-personal process recall training using video
- Advanced skills training
- Developing ethical maturity
- Supervising difficult situations
- Managing assessments.
- The questionnaires below (Self assessment forms 1 and 2) are for the use of the trainee for their self assessment and will be filled in and discussed at the end of the Advanced Course.
If you have completed our Certificate programme it is possible to repeat a course at a cost of £150 if the course is not fully booked.
Two tutorials and the enquiry process.
When you have completed the four supervision modules, delivered 50 hour’s of supervising and received 10 hours of supervision on your supervision, contact one of the tutors and arrange a first tutorial. In this tutorial you will review your training and your supervision practice and then look at how and with whom you will have the enquiry conversations using the self, supervisor, supervisee and peer enquiry form.
A second tutorial completes the process. You will share the learning and experience of the enquiry conversations, review your overall learning and celebrate your journey.
We intend the certificate process to be one of self empowerment in which the participant endorses themselves as a supervisor with the support and challenge of their supervisees, peers, supervisor and tutors.
The enquiry form is for a conversation to be had with your supervisor, two or more supervisees and a peer. It is to be handed out to them ahead of the conversation you will be having and filled into together in your supervision session or with regard to your peer in a conversation you will have arranged with each other. The enquiry form is a stepping stone to having a conversation about your relationship and how it serves you both, your clients and your work.
Self, peer, supervisor and supervisee enquiry form