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Day 2 Keynote 2: West Meets East: Sharing of Supervisory Strategies and Skills – Dialogue and Demonstration – Part 2

Day 2 Keynote 2: West Meets East: Sharing and
Demonstration of Supervisory Strategies and
Skills – Part 2
Associate Professor Kieran O’Donoghue
Massey University
Head of School – School of Social Work
Video: The Interactional Process of the Supervision Session: Skills and Strategies
A/P Kieran O’Donoghue, Supervisor (In person)
Dr Polly Yeung and Dr Michael Dale, Supervisees (On video)

Introduction
A/P Kieran used a recording of a supervision session he had with two of his workers to
demonstrate the structure and flow of a supervision session. He would pause between
video segments for participant discussions. This video aimed to demonstrate the
interactional map of the supervision session (O’Donoghue, 2014).
Table 1 below illustrates the stages and phases of this map.
Session
Stages
Preparation

Supervisee Phases

Supervisor Phases

Continual consideration.
Session preparation.

Reviewing records.
Thinking about the forthcoming
session.
Attending to the setting.

Beginning

Social engagement.
Orientation.

Starting
Checking-in.

Planning

Agenda setting.
Prioritising items.

Agenda setting.
Prioritising items.

Working

Telling
the
story
or
presenting an item.
Interactively processing.

Clarifying and exploring the story
or issue.
Facilitating decision making and
task setting.

Ending

Summary and review.
The practicalities of next
session.

Reviewing what was covered.
Finishing up the session.
Finishing the notes.

The video was prepared on the assumption that both the supervisor and supervisees had
prepared for the session by working out what they were going to discuss and what they
wanted from their respective sessions.
Starting the Session – Engagement
The supervisor started the supervision session by asking the supervisee to share how her
day was. And then how her work was going. He elicited her sharing by asking her to share
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