Aims of reflective supervision and facilitated groups
Develop capacities for awareness and attunement: cultivate emotional self-awareness, enabling presence, understanding, and responsiveness to emotional realities of themselves and young people they work with.
Promote reflective practice: create a safe, confidential, and supportive space for professionals to reflect on their practice, share experiences, explore ethical dilemmas, and manage the emotional impact of youth safeguarding.
Explore creative approaches: apply creative facilitation and learning approaches to stimulate engagement, deepen understanding, encourage different perspectives, and foster learning that is resonant and memorable.
Foster collaborative learning: encourage peer learning and the development of a supportive professional network.
Resonant Spaces: reflective group supervision and facilitated groups for professionals working with young people experiencing harms outside the home.
Reflective group supervision is designed to provide a supportive, reflective space to practitioners working with young people outside of the statutory safeguarding sector. Supervision is designed to support practitioners to enhance self-awareness, understanding and skills to enhance responsiveness to the realities of young people facing harms.
Facilitated groups make use of creative and experiential learning methods to create conditions for creative thinking and developing practice in a supportive environment. At facilitated group sessions, practitioners will explore creative approaches to stimulate new ideas and perspectives.
Who are these opportunities for?
We have designed reflective group supervision and facilitated group work to support professionals and volunteers in non-statutory roles and settings such as those in youth clubs, charities, sports organisations, faith groups, and creative arts programmes.
This includes, but is not limited to, youth workers, mentors, sports coaches, arts, culture, creative and heritage project facilitators, faith group leaders working with young people, staff and volunteers in community organisations, charities and private sector youth organisations.