Supervision

Why Supervision?

For many in ministry, spiritual care, and the helping professions, supervision is becoming an essential part of faithful, ethical and sustainable practice.

A key motivator in recent years has been the implementation of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017). In its wake, many religious and spiritual organisations have adopted regular professional supervision as part of their commitment to rebuilding trust and fostering cultures of safety, transparency, and accountability.

Yet supervision does more than protect, when harnessed it deeply sustains.

It offers space to

• Debrief the emotional and spiritual impacts of your work                                     

• Reflect on complex ethical or relational dynamics

• Attend to your own wellbeing, boundaries, and resilience

• Explore vocational identity, direction, and desire

• Integrate your lived experience with your values, theology and practice

• Return to work with a renewed sense of perspective or practice

My Approach to Supervision

In the spirit of Slow Wild Spirituality, my framework for supervision integrates pastoral and contemplative approaches.

“Supervision becomes super when it is expansive. Supervision becomes visionary when people reconnect with the fire in their bellies and can spot what quickens and what threatens to extinguish that inner flame. And supervision becomes pastoral when wellbeing is extended to all concerned.”  - Micheal Patterson

“Wisdom Supervision seeks in a creative way to support a practitioner’s competency, effectiveness, and restoration by providing a holding space for reflective learning and creative expression. The model is rooted in transformational learning theory and a contemplative approach that engages creative modalities and invites the whole person into the learning environment, engaging the affective, intuitive, thinking, physical and spiritual self. It is a compassionate and collaborative experience of support for caring professionals." -   Geraldine Holton

What Happens in a Supervision Session?

Supervision is a reflective and relational space where you can pause and attend to the life of your work and the work of your life. It attends to the conversation between your soul, role and context and supports you to reflect on your practice in a way that is ethical, emotionally honest, spiritually aware, and vocationally formative. 

Each session is co-created. You bring what is alive or difficult in your work. I hold space with curiosity, and presence as a generative witness, rather than expert, trusting that you already carry the wisdom you seek.  Together we follow the thread of what emerges.

Your session may include:

• Reflective conversation

• Stillness or silence

• Prayerful attentiveness

• Symbol, metaphor, or creative reflection

• Theological or ethical reflection

• Awareness of body and emotion

• Reframing or imagining next steps

The Gifts of Supervision

• Release emotional and spiritual tension

• Reconnect with your own integrity, values, and calling

• Attend to boundary, fatigue, and over-functioning

• Discern ethical complexity with clarity and grace

• Recover your authentic voice and intuitive knowing

• Strengthen vocational resilience and creativity

• Integrate soul, role and context

• Cultivate joy, freedom, and meaning in your work

Why I Offer Supervision

I’ve spent decades working and walking alongside people in leadership, ministry, spiritual care, and community work. I know the beauty and the burden, the sacred trust and the silent cost and the longing for depth and integrity in a world of demands.

Supervision became a place where I could name what was real, be held without judgement, and listen for the wisdom that wanted to emerge. That experience formed in me a desire to offer the same hospitality to others, a place to breathe, to be witnessed, and renewed in the work.