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Home Specialist skills Organisation OD&D Group Supervision
OD&D Group Supervision
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Address a critical challenge or opportunity in their own area of practice
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Identify and reflect on their own professional identity and purpose within the departmental and wider CS system.
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Position themselves in ways that maintain credibility while also being able to challenge established norms.
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Contribute to and influence the strategic agenda within their department or wider system.
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Strengthen their own capacity to work collaboratively with clients and colleagues.
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Identify adaptations and practice experiments that could enhance the impact of OD&D.
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Explore group dynamics in the safety of the learning environment, in order to use insights in day-to-day relationships.
Overview
Off the shelf (OTS)
This programme of supervision is designed to work as a closed group of 6 expert-level practitioners from, ideally, different parts of the Civil Service. Supervision will support both professional growth and shared learning across the group. Each participant will also be guided to develop a Practice-Based Learning Questions (PBLQs) to drive ongoing inquiry and professional development in their own context. This programme is made up of 6 half day, online sessions.
The approach to the supervision is underpinned by the following principles:
•Focusing practice development on practical delivery – doing real work in the service of learning to practice
•Offering a space for reflexivity and enabling practice depth
•Delivering impact through the use of self as an instrument
•Keeping the needs of wider stakeholders in the picture
•Bringing in theory in the service of making a difference across the system
Objectives:
•Individual ‘airtime’ made up of participants current work challenges
•Collective sensemaking of themes arising, drawing on theory and practice and experimenting with new approaches
•Clarifying your own professional ethos and what you stand for as a practitioner
•Refining approaches to practising OD&D in a way that most effectively meets your current context
•Increasing noticing of multiple factors at play in client work e.g. systemic influences, parallel processes etc
•Supporting the emotional labour and impact on wellbeing of OD&D work in a system where relational work is often systemically under recognised"
Delivery method
Virtual
Course duration
18 hours
Competency level
Working
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