This virtual workshop series will equip you with contemporary knowledge, tools and skills and set you on a clear path to building your confidence and competence as a supervisor.
Live Online Workshop
Member price: $440.00 including GST (member price will display once logged in)
Non-member price: $733.00 including GST
Employer Partner Program price: $549.75 including GST
Are you new to being a supervisor?
Are you seeking a supervisory role in the future?
Then this virtual workshop is for you!
Becoming a supervisor can be a daunting next step in your social work career. This introductory course will prepare you to provide best practice supervision, create a safe and reflective space, and support the professional learning and growth of those you supervise.
This virtual workshop series will equip you with contemporary knowledge, tools and skills and set you on a clear path to building your confidence and competence as a supervisor.
Pre-work and self-reflection (0.5 hours)
Participants are required to complete readings and self-reflections in preparation for each workshop session.
Day 1 (3.5 hours) -10 June 24 10.00am-1.30pm AEDT
The initial knowledge-based workshop presents evidence-based principles, models and tools that underpin safe and effective supervision practice. Participants will engage in a collaborative learning approach, via large and small group reflections and discussions. Various resources will be provided to participants including take-home tools and templates.
Day 2 (3.5 hours) - 14 June 24 10.00am-1.30pm AEDT
The follow up skills-based workshop builds on the first session through practical application and synthesis. Through an experiential learning approach, participants will delve into the supervisory role through case studies, live demonstration, observation, critical reflection and feedback.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe contemporary approaches in best practice for supervision
- Create and maintain a safe and reflective space for supervisees
- Understand how supervision can strengthen and support lived experience
- Develop confidence in establishing and guiding the supervisory relationship
- Demonstrate how to prepare and apply skills in varied supervision contexts
- Recognise how to model practice leadership through supervision
AASW Credential: Supervision
Lead Facilitator - Tori Cooke
Tori provides consultation and subject matter specialism in family violence programs and projects and is a skilled clinical supervisor and TAE40116 trained educator in private practice.
Tori is a social worker experienced in working with women experiencing family violence, suicide bereavement counselling, AOD counselling and working directly with men using violence and abuse. She has developed and implemented women’s healing programs and is well known in designing MBCP responses (individual, case management and groupwork programs) for men’s groups in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria.
In the last five years, Tori has worked on a range of initiatives in the men’s family violence space in Victoria as part of the Victorian Family Violence Royal Commission reforms working as the practice specialist at Relationships Aust Victoria and Head of Workforce Development at No to Violence in the last five years. Now based in Perth, Tori continues to support best practice responses, and the health and wellbeing of practitioners in private practice through Pandora Enterprise Projects Pandora Website (pandoraprojects.net)
Tori contributed as a subject matter expert in the innovative Victorian Orange Door Hubs induction training and a subject matter contributor in the design of the MARAM Framework training in Victoria. She currently teaches part time at South Metro TAFE, lectures at the University of Western Australia and provides external supervision and mentoring to front line practitioners.
Tori continues to contribute to sector responses by supporting providers in designing, implementing and evaluating men’s behaviour change, family safety and case management programs.
