Soul-Led Supervision and Mentoring
For people who know that their own evolution is the best thing they can bring to their clients.
Soul-Led Supervision and Mentoring covers three areas:
a. It incorporates the traditional supervisory role. In this it aims to:
- encourage the counsellor to work effectively, safely and ethically
- provide a space in which the counsellor can reflect and evaluate
- create a safe holding so that any concern, difficulty or problem in relation to working with a client can be raised
- with the counsellor, identify weaknesses and blocks as well as strengths and causes for celebration
- help the counsellor sustain the resourcefulness required for his or her work through self-care.
- b. It provides guidance and support in extending the counsellor’s subtle capacities. This focuses on:
- extending the counsellor’s capacity to be with heavy or complex emotional issues clients present with, without closing off emotionally or wanting the client to stop feeling upset
- extending the counsellor’s capacity to use the whole of his or her own body as a potential source of subtle information about what is present for the client
- increasing the counsellor’s courage and capacity to pause and slow the client down, especially given a sense that something potentially important is being overridden or side-stepped.
c. It offers on-going, deepening Care of the Soul, developing the counsellor’s capacity and preparedness to:
- listen to the subtle invitations life makes, in matters large and small, and to discern with increasing refinement
- act with courage when it would be easier to ignore a particular invitation or nudge
- allow this deepening evolution to inform all of life, including but not exclusive to the counselling/coaching practice.