Diploma in Supervision using Narrative Ideas & Practices

The diploma in narrative supervision fosters a safe space for learning, reflection, and professional development, applying narrative practice principles to supervisory relationships. 

The program focuses on developing supervisors' skills to support their supervisees' professional growth in respectful, non-blaming ways that connect supervisees' lives to their work. Participants explore the position of supervisor, learn to negotiate collaborative supervisory relationships, and develop strategies for addressing worker fatigue and burnout using narrative approaches. 

Who can apply

  • Clinical supervisors practising in therapeutic settings, counseling, social work, and health care

  • Educators and mentors working with teachers or trainees

  • Supervisors of creative or narrative-based professions, like writing, community art or working with youth

  • Leaders of organizations/teams interested in exploring the use of narrative ideas and practices in their supervision


What we will explore

The 6-month part-time modular format brings together supervisors from diverse contexts to explore and refine their supervision practices. The program is an invitation to develop and implement supervision processes that are respectful, non-blaming, and focused on enhancing workers' skills and professional identities. 

Explorations will emphasise collaborative meaning-making, the positioning of power in the context of supervision, and the honoring of stories of both supervisees and their clients.  

It will include 

1) The key ideas of narrative practice as they apply to supervision 

2) Understanding the influence of the supervisors' values and ethics on the process of supervision 

3) Exploring the effect of discourses and the deconstruction of these discourses

3) Negotiating the relationship between the supervisor and supervisees.

4) Skills that will support richly describing the preferred stories of supervisees' ways of working

5 ) Responding to stuckness and challenges

6) Using narrative practices in the context of group supervision 

7) Narrative ideas of how to respond to ethical pain when it appears in supervision. 

8) Navigating the journey of professional development and wellbeing with supervisees