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Workshop 3: PPIS Coordinated Multi-Pronged Supervision Programme: Towards An Evidence Based Approach’

GS1
Pre

GS2
- Concepts seem
foreign
- Questions surrounding
“effectiveness” of
concepts taught

Post

- Making sense and
connecting with
concepts
- Allow self to dance
with language and
concepts
- Finding a FIT with
concepts (such as
positions,
multipartiality, reflexive
questions)

Struggles

- Discomfort with
vulnerability and
vulnerability of self
- Process allows worker
be play with discomfort
and see how discomfort
is held during sessions
(increase safety)
- Concepts seen as
technique or tools to be
carried out

Learnings

- Knowledge interacts
with professional self.
Workers make sense of
knowledge in the form
of what and how they
can do for client.

GS3
- Some have questions
surrounding
effectiveness
- Process of reflecting
on action is more joined
with professional self
- Practiced reflexivity
more apparent.
Able to allow self to be
perturbed by process
within session, begin to
notice how self is
influenced (or affected)
by process seen in
clients
- Moving away from
concepts as a technique
and interacting with it
differently
- Process allows for
more safety to dance
with vulnerability in self
and others
- Process of
consolidating concepts
with the self of the
worker can be quite
daunting
- Though workers are
able to allow self to be
perturbed, the
perturbation shakes the
system of self and
system rights for
homeostasis and
balance
- Begin to see how self
can be influenced
- Begin process of selfreflexivity

- Practiced reflexivity
more apparent
- More ready to look at
self, both professional self
and personal self
- Allowing process of selfreflexivity and able to
allow self to be
comfortable with selfreflexivity
- Interacts with concepts
at the level of
professional and personal
self
- Allowing self to take
more relational risks at
different contexts
- Integrating knowledge
into practice. Interaction
with concepts are
integrated within self
(they are able to
conceptualise cases at an
abstract level) and
workers struggle between
abstract space and
concrete space
- Workers struggle with
finding a fit between
zooming in (into a case)
and zooming out

- Concepts are wellintegrated
Reflexivity is evident

GS1 supervisees reflected that the concepts and systemic ideas were very foreign to them
and they had many questions as to the effectiveness of these concepts, and were
concerned with finding a fit between concept and application. Their struggles included
discomfort with vulnerability as they would be questioned during group supervision on
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