Enhancing Reflective and Reflexive Practice and Self Care in Supervision

BOOK EARLY AND SAVE! Early Bird Fee applies until 23 January 2026

Master Class - Early Bird Fee: $400.00 AUD - payments received by 23 January 2026
Master Class - Standard Fee: $450.00 AUD - payments received from 24 January 2026

Please note the Terms and Conditions of enrolment prior to enrolling.
 

 This workshop is also open to nurses, social workers, psychotherapists, counsellors, allied health and experienced practitioners who have at least 5 years clinical and supervisory experience and who have already undertaken introductory supervisor training. The workshop is also an AHPRA approved (Psychology) Master Class and complies with the requirements for the Psychology Board supervisor requirements. If you are a psychologist wishing to undertake a PsyBA approved master class, please enrol via our psychology training page.


About the Workshop

Delivered via interactive videoconference (Zoom platform).

The workshop covers theory and practice for implementing a reflective practice framework in clinical supervision. The workshop provides supervisors with an understanding of how to apply reflective practice within a competency-based supervision model of practice. Participants will develop meta competencies for setting up, facilitating and evaluating supervisee reflectivity in practice. Participants will practice ways to develop dialogical reflectivity in supervision, applying the microskills of immediacy and self-reflection. There will be opportunities to practise reflective questioning in addition to reviewing both video and live demonstrations of reflective practice questioning in action.

Visual tools including the Supervision Frame and Supervision Roadmap (Copyright © CSS) are used to highlight processes for reflective and reflexive practice. The workshop will assume supervisors already have the foundational core competencies of establishing a competency-based framework for supervision with this workshop extending both knowledge and skills of applying reflective practice questioning microskills in practice. Relational factors such as client-supervisee-supervisor parallel processes will also be examined with critical reflection of the supervisor-supervisee dynamics and implications for assessment and evaluation.

Self-care for the professional will also be covered in this workshop with the aim to ensure that supervisors establish supervisory practices that allow for a restorative space. Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency-based supervision.
 

By the end of the workshop participants will:

• Have sound knowledge of the theory and practice of reflective practice supervision
• Understand the principles of how reflective practice promotes independent thinking and reflective competencies in psychological practice and the development of specific therapeutic and professional skills
• Develop specific supervisee relational and reflective competencies using supervision tasks (e.g. applying live supervision, review of video/audio recordings in supervision)
• Develop skills to enhance supervisee exploration of cognition, behaviour, emotions in clinical practice, developing reflection-in-action, on-action and for-action
• Be able to teach supervisees to apply self-supervision as a reflective intervention building internal supervisor micro skills which can enhance self-care of the professional and reduce burn-out.

WORKSHOP CONTENT:

The workshop is experiential and participants are asked to bring clinical or practice issue/s to use in small group class activities and practice sessions. Video excerpts and live demonstrations are used to aid learning:

• Defining, understanding and facilitating reflective and reflexive practice
• Experiential learning and transformational learning in supervision
• Creating a mindful space for reflection, promoting the restorative function in supervision
• Enhancing self-reflection (the internal supervisor) and awareness of self in practice
• Demonstration of reflective questioning techniques and role play practice sessions
• Understanding and working with Parallel Process
• Application to clinical case work – reflection in action, on-action and for-action
- Dialogical reflexivity
• Managing supervisory complexities
- Boundary issues
- Self-issues that can impact professional practice
- Self-care of the professional.

PRESENTER: Christine Senediak

Christine Senediak is a Board-approved supervisor trainer with over 40 years of clinical and supervisory experience. She has extensive expertise providing individual, peer, group, and organisational supervision to psychologists, social workers and Allied health professionals working in child, adolescent, and family services, schools, adult mental health, trauma, drug and alcohol, gambling, sexual assault, and cross-cultural contexts. Trained as a systemic and multigenerational family therapist, Christine brings a systemic lens to supervision, considering the broader relational and organisational context in understanding clinical challenges. Her supervision practice is grounded in reflective practice, fostering self-awareness and reflexivity to strengthen the therapeutic alliance and address relational dynamics. She integrates systemic, cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness, and person-centred approaches to create a flexible, evidence-informed framework that supports both professional growth and effective client care.

CERTIFICATION:

Participants are required to attend the full day and will receive a certificate of attendance for 7 hours of training.


Flyer: Reflective and Reflexive Practice Master Class 2026 Allied Health (PDF)