Clinical Group Supervision for Complex Relational Work

Integrating clinical thinking, embodied awareness, and the impact of the work

A clinically grounded, creative and embodied monthly closed group supervision program for clinicians, therapists, and service providers.

Clinical work cannot be held alone.

Whether you work in a large organisation or private practice, you were never meant to carry this work alone. Group supervision at Tempo offers a space to sit with, clarify and make sense of this work in a community of collective care and like-minded peers.

A place to bring clinical material, systemic complexity, and the impact of the work, attending to both the work itself and the clinician within it.

It is a professionally facilitated, closed group that takes a whole-person approach to the clinical role, honouring the intersection of the personal and the professional, and the rich and sometimes uncomfortable territory where they meet.

What makes this group different

Drawing on therapeutic supervision principles, collective care ethics, and creative and embodied process, this group creates the conditions for reflective practice that is honest, rigorous, and sustaining.

The work is structured to attend to multiple layers of clinical practice simultaneously, not just the client or the intervention, but the therapeutic relationship, the clinician's own experience, and the wider system in which the work sits.

The group draws on the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision as its organising framework, a relational model that structures attention across the full ecology of clinical practice.

This is clinical supervision in its full sense, attending to both the work itself and the impact of that work on the clinician.

The group as intervention

There is something that happens in a group of clinicians who trust each other that cannot happen alone or in individual supervision. The shared recognition, "it's not just me." The collective ethics that keep clients at the centre. The practice wisdom that emerges when six different practitioners bring six different perspectives to a difficult clinical moment.

This group is structured around the principles of collective care: support, solidarity and shared accountability that sustain clinicians over time.

The group is not a support mechanism for the work. It is the work.

On being brave and creating safeness in group

Feeling safe enough to be honest about the work does not come from a policy, a promise or an agreement. It comes from experience of a group that holds what is brought with care.

Safeness (rather than safety) here is built through clear and negotiated boundaries, confidentiality held by the whole group, the freedom to share only what feels right and mutual respect and non-judgement.

We welcome challenges and wins in the work; issues that feel big and those that seem small.

Of course what is shared in the group stays in the group. Importantly, the rest is negotiated by participants in the first session and held by the group throughout.

Who is group supervision for?

Facilitated by Minky van der Walt, PACFA Accredited Clinical Supervisor.

This group is for therapists, clinicians and service providers doing sustained relational work. Allied health clinicians, medical practitioners, service leaders and therapists are welcome, bringing the full complexity, richness and paradox of this work with them.

This group is suitable for clinicians at all career stages and may contribute to supervision requirements for PACFA, ACA, AMTA, ANZACATA, AASW, and other registration bodies. Please check with your registration body regarding eligibility.

It will resonate most if you:

• Are good at what you do
• Are aware of the cumulative weight of that work
• Are looking for something more than case discussion or collegial support
• Want a space where the full complexity of clinical practice, what moves you, what troubles you, what lights you up and what stays with you, can be held with equal seriousness and care
• This group welcomes registered and provisionally registered clinicians seeking regular, structured supervision as part of their professional practice

Fees

Fees are set in keeping with recommendations from Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia's (PACFA) for 'low-cost supervision'groups: $80 (ex GST)/ hour.

All groups run for 90 minutes and are $120 (ex GST) / group:

• $720 (ex GST) for 6 x groups

A $120 (ex GST) deposit secures your place in the program with the remaining fee due in full by the first session.

Payment plans are available upon request

Cancellation

As the group is a closed month program any missed appointments are unable to be made up, nor are fees able to be reimbursed.

Please contact Minky here if you have any questions.