• Education for the Public
• Education and Training for Professionals
• Mentoring and Supervision for Health Care Professionals
• Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy

• WHAT IS MENTORING - SUPERVISION?
• TYPICAL ISSUES WHICH FREQUENTLY OCCUR
• MENTORING- SUPERVISION FOR GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS

How do you look after yourself as a professional practitioner?
What do you do with your energy that you put into your practice, where does it go?
As a practitioner do you consider what your professional needs are when you are helping patients?
You should have a thriving practice of the size that you wish and which makes you feel energised. If you have not why not?
Our energy states of being tired, bored or stressed will be reflected in the state of our practices. The health of our practices depends crucially on how we feel in ourselves.

'If all our attention is directed firmly towards our practice, then we can accumulate a back log of unmet needs and work-related issues. If these are left undealt with they undermine our sense of ourselves as competent practitioners. As practitioners we offer our patients guidance, support and encouragement - it seems a good idea to offer it to ourselves.'

Isobel Cosgrove.

WHAT IS MENTORING - SUPERVISION?

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It is a chance to look at our own needs as a practitioner. It can be provided in a group setting or on a one to one arrangement. Either way, the setting is important, it is a safe, nurturing, confidential environment.
It is a time when we as practitioners take time out to consider our interaction with our patients and therefore can monitor our energy appropriately.
It is a chance to also consider practice problems and practicalities and learn from each other.
It is an opportunity to look at those re-occurring difficult situations and when we change those situations around how we develop our self-esteem and confidence.
Sharing our difficulties and success's is empowering and energising.
When we start to see our professional needs being met we begin to see how such an enjoyable and valuable aspect this process is.

TYPICAL ISSUES WHICH FREQUENTLY OCCUR

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Roles, contracts and boundary issues
Tangled relationships
Professional and personal issues
Communication skills
Money issues
Emotional responses to patients (eg 'difficult' patients) including the death of a patient
Endings
Time management

Burn out
Ethics
Building up a practice
Relationships with other practitioners and professionals

If you want to take your self and your practice seriously as a person who cares for others, it is important to build a system of support for yourself. When we feel supported and enthusiastic, our practices will thrive and as a practitioner we reconnect with excitement.

Sed quis custodet ipsos custodes? (But who will care and protect the carers?)

Juvenal, Satires, 6 1:347

MENTORING- SUPERVISION FOR GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS

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The groups are of limited size and meet approximately monthly for two and half to three hours.
Individual Sessions are for one hour at regular intervals by mutual agreement.
For more information please contact Dr Martin Allbright 01684-893393