Tuesday March 20th,

Thursday April 19th,

Thursday May 17th

Thursday June 14th 2018

Venue: 45 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH

Facilitator: Revd Dr Guy Harrison, Head of Spiritual & Pastoral Care, OHFT and Director of the Oxford Centre for Spirituality and Wellbeing (OCSW)

Who should attend: Those who work within health care and who supervise volunteers, chaplaincy staff or students and who have a minimum of 3 years’ experience of ministry or practice in which they will supervise others.

Applications: Care of the Great Ormond Street Chaplaincy Dep’t: chaplaincy@gosh.nhs.uk 020 7813 8232

Format: Once a month for 4 months from 10am to 4pm. The course is designed to be experiential with a mix of theory, skills practice and group work

Assessment: Carried out continuously throughout the course and takes the following form:

After each day participants submit a short reflexive account of what they have learned and how that applies to their own context;
Skills practice is observed and feedback given by both the course facilitator and by peers;
At the end of week 3 the course participants submit a short statement (500 words) of their learning and development needs;
During week 4 the above statement is self and peer assessed and feedback given.

Award of Certificate: Upon satisfactory completion of the course a Certificate in Supervision Skills will be awarded by the Oxford Centre for Spirituality and Wellbeing.

Accreditation: The course meets the training hour’s requirement for general accreditation by the Association for Pastoral Supervision & Education (APSE) www.pastoralsupervision.org.uk

The course will include the following:

Definitions
Styles of supervision
Collaborative supervision
Responsibilities and boundaries within the supervision relationship
Developing self-reflection
Congruence
Ethical dilemmas
Power, context and cultural issues
Professional practice issues: managing different roles & responsibilities; contracts
Creativity in supervision
Challenges of supervision
Exploring different approaches
Supervision of supervision
Course evaluation