Mindful Supervision: Trauma-informed Practices in an Age of Overwhelm

THIS IS AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED ANXIETY AND UNCERTAINTY for professionals helping vulnerable clients. But there might also be opportunities for learning, growth, persistence, and resistance. This webinar is a forum for clinical supervisors, new and seasoned, to explore their supervisory practices and update them in relation to toxic stresses unique to this period of global upheaval.

Using research from the field of interpersonal neurobiology, this webinar invites participants to review standard beliefs about clinical supervision—emphasizing evaluation, monitoring, and fidelity to models—and to update them to suit the needs of stressed supervisees. Participants learn to cultivate mindful attention, to bring an attuned awareness of the visceral dialogue to their 1:1 and group meetings, and to maximize rewards and minimize threats hard-wired into any relationship with an authority figure. How can we intentionally marshall our nervous systems to respond to challenges of working with vulnerable populations in a period of widespread targeting, persecution, and oppression?

Most practitioners seeking supervision or consultation have significant exposure to the trauma stories of their clients, magnified during this long season of worsening mental health and spiraling addiction. Integrating routine mindful habits into the supervisory relationship allows supervisees to stay in the “Window of Tolerance” for longer periods, increase vagal tone and perseverance, and find meaning, satisfaction, and even joy in their work. Mindful supervision enhances creativity and critical thinking, unblocks learning, increases intentional use of the supervisory relationship, and enhances whole body wisdom essential to effective care, healing, and professional resilience.

The webinar also introduces a structured model for clinical case consultation.

By the end of this webinar, participants will:

1. Update their beliefs about clinical supervision with ideas from the field of interpersonal neurobiology;
2. Understand the ways toxic stress, magnified during the Era of Overwhelm, can block learning and professional growth;
3. Practice mindful strategies that reduce stress and facilitate learning, growth, persistence, and resistance; and
4. Witness an innovative model of clinical case consultation that emphasizes mindful presence.

Clinical supervisors must complete 6 credit hours every 5 years in supervision coursework. This two half-day webinar, approved through National Association of Social Workers, satisfies that requirement.

BIPOC REPARATIONS DISCOUNT: If you identify as a BIPOC, you are entitled to a 25% discount.

MILITARY DISCOUNT: If you served in the military, either currently or in the past, or you are a military spouse, there is a 25% discount.

GRADUATE STUDENT DISCOUNT: If you are currently in graduate school in a clinical discipline and wish to register, there is a 25% discount.

Contact the EVENT ORGANIZER at the bottom of the page for discount codes.