Are you a qualified counsellor looking to take the next step in your professional journey?

The Eaves Academy Supervision for Counselling Diploma, is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge to provide effective supervision within the counselling profession.

What You Will Learn:

Our diploma covers key areas essential to becoming an effective supervisor, including:

• Theories and models of supervision
• Ethical and legal considerations
• Reflective practice and self-awareness
• Supervisory techniques and strategies
• Working with diverse client groups

This Supervision Diploma is designed to enable you to practice as an effective and ethical Supervisor. The tutor team believe in the importance of good supervision and considers it vital that Counsellors wishing to provide supervision should acquire the additional skills necessary for supervision. The course will entail 84 Tutor Contact hours, which will include both taught sessions and skills practice. In addition, students will need to complete external practice hours working as a Supervisor. This course is designed for you to be able to work with supervisees from many disciplines and is not linked to any one model of counselling. A variety of ways of presenting material will be used throughout the course.

The Course structure follows the core elements outlined in the BACP Supervision Competence Framework and detailed in the BACP Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervision Training Curriculum. During the Course, you will be presented with a variety of models/theories of Counselling Supervision with the aim of you considering them and developing your ideas as to how you wish to work.

The course will seek to model good practice in the establishment of collegiate relationships. We trust our way of working will provide a good example to our students.

Please note: Students are responsible for purchasing their own text books. A reading list is included for your guidance.

Course requirements outside of weekends:

Whilst on the Course students will need to be working as a Supervisor with a minimum of 2 individuals (not seen as a pair) or 1 individual and one group and complete at least 20 hours of Supervision practice. Trainee supervisors must be supervising counsellors or other professionals for whom supervision would be appropriate.
Students will need to receive a minimum of 1 hour of monthly personal Counselling supervision support for their supervision work, provided by a suitably qualified supervisor.

Personal Study Students will need to commit a minimum of 2/3 hours a week, approximately 15 hours a month, in personal study, assignment preparation and background reading. This, together with the course hours, supervision skills practice and personal supervision will equate to over 200 hours of training at Post Qualification Diploma Level

Assessment:

The two major assignments are a Philosophy essay explaining your beliefs about supervision and how you wish to work having considered a variety of models and a case study showing how you work.

The Eaves is committed to being open and accessible to all learners and to supporting Students towards achieving their goals. Students will be expected to behave respectfully and ethically towards all colleagues, staff, and tutors.

Delegates need to possess a level of literacy and numeracy sufficient for the demands of the course. This could mean that if English is a second language Students will need to be able to communicate efficiently both verbally and in written form.

Application is open to qualified counsellors from any counselling model who are accredited by their professional body or eligible to be accredited. They must have had a minimum of three years of experience post-qualification and completed at least 400 clinical hours. We believe it is essential to have gained sufficient experience as a counsellor before embarking on this training. Whilst we appreciate that students may belong to a variety of Professional bodies, this course conforms to the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions. Students have a responsibility to ensure they are familiar with this.

Applicants may be working in a variety of settings including voluntary organisations, the NHS or other statutory services or in private practice. They may already be supervising individuals and/or groups and now  wish to develop their knowledge and expertise in the field of supervision. Allocation of places on the course will be subject to assessment by the Tutors whose decision whether or not to admit an applicant will be final.

Saturday 3rd May / Sunday 4th May

Saturday 24^th May / Sunday 25^th May

Saturday 28^th June / 29^th June

Saturday 20^th September / Sunday 21^st September

Saturday 18^th October / Sunday 19^th October

Saturday 15^th November / Sunday 16^th November

A deposit of £500 is required to secure your place on the course.

The second payment of £700 is due 2 working days before the start date.

Final payment of £700 is due after the summer break (Sept 20^th)

Janet Stephen, Sarah Child, Margy Ross Maclean, Bridget Walford

All tutors are Members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and are bound by the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.

Tutorial support will be available throughout the course.