Authentic Counselling Training
Counselling Supervision: Functions
[Under construction: 3 May 2005]
Affirmative: identifying, acknowledging and celebrating what the counsellor has done well.
Normative: identifying and affirming good practice, and helping the counsellor away from weak practice.
Formative: introducing fresh perspectives, identifying training needs, and delivering some training (such as demonstrating empty chair work, or a relaxation technique, or how to work with stones).
Restorative: helping the counsellor to feel good as a person, perhaps because the counsellor has been affected by counselling material that has been disturbing, or perhaps because the personal circumstances of the counsellor makes it hard to counsel optimally.
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