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Paul s prime professional background is psychotherapy. He qualified as an integrative psychotherapist at the Minster Centre, London, in 1982. While in England, he worked alongside Robin Shohet and Peter Hawkins (who wrote the classic text, Supervision in the Helping Professions). Through them and others, Paul developed his early passion for, and commitment to, both clinical supervision and to group facilitation. In terms of group work, he initially trained (1980 1981) in the Tavistock Method and with Mardi Robinson, London, (1981 1982) in creative group work using a humanistic model. He has worked since then in England, New Zealand and Australia as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, group facilitator and educator. Paul designed and facilitated a range of workshops on clinical supervision for Queensland Health Mental Health Services (2009 2014). He was president of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (2004 2006), and the inaugural president of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association (2014 2016). Paul is a member of and supervisor for the Queensland Counsellors Association (a member Association of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia).
Matthew is the Director of Post Graduate Mental Health Programs for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Queensland. He is an experienced clinical psychologist who has a strong interest in clinical supervision. Matthew conducted what is regarded as the first and most comprehensive study, to date, into the impact of supervision on client outcome in a large randomised treatment trial for the brief treatment of depression. This study influenced standards and requirements for supervision across professions internationally, as well as in Australia. He has also published extensively in the area of supervision, including a study that examined supervisor social skills, the supervisory alliance and supervision outcomes. He recently authored a chapter examining the outcomes of supervision in the latest edition of the International Handbook of Supervision Research. His presentation will examine the evidence base for a variety of outcomes attributable to supervision and the conclusions should provide encouragement for all those who value supervision. Matthew has continued with his interest in depression, and has conducted research examining both the psychological and molecular basis for poor treatment response. He, currently, has a large trial in progress to test a treatment for two pathophysiological mechanisms involved with depression, with another trial planned for next year for treatment resistant depression. He is also interested in tele-psychiatry, and has a number of PhD students conducting projects in this area as well as an e-mental health project for child behaviour management. Matthew maintains a strong interface with practice providing both clinical services, as well as supervision for a variety of mental health practitioners.
Rod is a youth worker from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, with two decades of experience. He redeveloped WelTec s Professional Supervision course and has a private practice in supervision and facilitation: Te Whare Manaaki o Ngaio. Rod engaged in supervision as a volunteer telephone counsellor and attained a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Service Supervision with Distinction, Massey University, 2007. Rod realised there is little written about supervision within youth work, compared to other professions, so he translated the literature into useful tools for youth workers, creating the Supervision Scrapbook (2008), available digitally. Rod edits the New Zealand youth work journal Kaiparahuarahi.
Wanda has a background in education and a lived experience of using mental health services. She has worked in a variety of consumer perspective roles since 2000, mostly at a systemic level in clinical services. These roles have included Consumer Consultant, consumer researcher, educator, senior advisor, freelance worker and Senior Policy Advisor, consumer portfolio holder at the Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria, Australia. Her current role is Senior Consumer Consultant for Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA). She also does some casual work as a consumer academic for the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing. Wanda s main passions are: Wanting to positively influence mental health services and systems. Conducting consumer perspective education and training for clinicians, other staff, professionals and consumers. Promoting Advance Directives (as opposed to the watered-down version of Advance Statements that are part of the Victorian Mental Health Act 2014). Progressing and supporting the consumer workforce. With the support of many others, she is proud to have completed a research project about the consumer workforce in Victoria called Real Lives, Real Jobs. She feels incredibly privileged to know and work with amazing people every day. One of Wanda s biggest joys in life is being with her two adorable, beautiful granddaughters.
Cathy is a Registered Nurse and a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with over 30 years experience in mental health. She completed both her general and mental health training in the United Kingdom and has attained a Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing) and a Masters of Mental Health Nursing. Cathy is employed as a Mental Health Nurse Educator at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is also a Clinical Fellow with the Australian Catholic University (ACU). Cathy s educational portfolio includes delivering training for nursing clinical supervision, providing clinical supervision in both individual and group settings and providing supervision of supervision.
Pamela is a PACFA Registered counsellor with a rich regard for the supervisory process having undertaken studies in clinical supervision within her Doctorate at the University of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. She currently provides supervision to practitioners on an individual and group basis in both urban and rural settings working with both private practitioners and organisations. She also provides supervision of supervision, and is engaged herself in regular supervision of both her client and supervision work. Pamela is also Director of Supervision Alliance, a training arm providing professional development workshops, and a six-months training course in clinical supervision.
From the late 1970s until the end of 2015, Deb worked predominantly as a Registered Nurse in various capacities in psychiatric / mental health services in New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and in education and training roles in higher education and NSW Health services. From early in her career, Deb has been a recipient of clinical supervision, and for more than 20 years, she has facilitated both individual and group supervision for government and non-government organisations. She currently works in private practice as a clinical supervisor and clinical supervision education consultant. Her passion is to nurture and support upcoming generations of reflective people who work with people in various contexts, as well as furthering the profession of clinical supervision. Deb is a founding member of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association (ACSA), member of the Management Committee, and is the Association s current President.
Jo is a Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in public health, private practice and education of health professionals. She has been an enthusiastic clinical supervisor for 18 years and provides supervision for students, early career health professionals, and other supervisors in individual and group settings. Currently in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health, Australia, she is the Clinical Educator for Psychology and coordinates the implementation of the Clinical Supervision Guideline for Allied Health.
Carolyn has over 20 years experience in the fields of child protection, domestic violence and mental health, holding statutory, specialist and management posts in Australia and the United Kingdom (UK). She has both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Social Work and a Masters in Adult Education. Carolyn has been providing external clinical supervision to a range of individual professionals and multidisciplinary teams for over 10 years. She has published in the areas of supervision and management and is an article and book reviewer for a number of journals in the UK.
Valda has worked extensively in mental health across public, non- government and private sectors as a Mental Health Occupational Therapist, Family and Youth Outreach Counsellor, Project Officer, Consultant Trainer and as an Advanced Clinical Practice Supervisor, for over 30 years. Valda completed specialist training in Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy in 1993 and has been working part time in private practice as a Child and Family Psychotherapist since 1992. Until recently, she had been a lecturer / coordinator within the University of Queensland Masters of Mental Health (Psychotherapy). Currently, she works part-time within Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS), Children s Health Queensland, Queensland as the Statewide Professional Leader for Allied Health. In this role, she provides clinical supervision to CYMHS staff nursing and allied health across Queensland. Valda is also a co-facilitator within the supervision training program at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Learning.
Jennifer is Professor of Midwifery at Griffith University and Clinical Chair at Gold Coast University Hospital, Queensland, Australia. She is a registered midwife with over thirty five years clinical, academic and research expertise. This has involved the implementation and development of women-centred models of maternity care in both the public and private sector in Australia. Jennifer has expertise in qualitative research design and analysis and is well published in the area of women s experiences of mothering in the neonatal nursery, women s expectations and experiences for labour and birth (including fear of birth), as well as women s emotional wellbeing. She currently leads an international collaboration referred to as the WHELM study (Work Health and Emotional Lives of Midwives). Jennifer has held a number of national competitive grants and has more than 130 peer-reviewed publications. Jennifer also trained as a clinical supervisor in the role development model.
Joy is a Registered Nurse who holds a BSNur, GradCertPsychN, GDipHlthMgt, and AdvDipYogaT. She works as a Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Nurse at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia. She commenced her nursing career in 1990, working as a general nurse in the drug and alcohol sector prior to undertaking psychiatric nursing qualifications. The mainstreaming of mental health services in the mid-1990s created an opportunity for Joy to bring together her skill to meeting the mental health needs of individuals in the acute and rehabilitation setting. In 2015, she became the inaugural Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Nurse at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Joy is a passionate advocate for the advancement of clinical supervision and compassion practices for general nurses. She believes the expansion of nursing knowledge rests in the nursing profession s capacity to consciously articulate and explore their professional role function.
Yan Ling holds a MSc (Family Therapy), MSocSci (Counselling), and a BA (Social Work), and is currently a practitioner and supervisor at a family service centre under Viriya Community Services, Singapore, providing clinical services and support to clients and professionals. She has participated in several workgroups over the years to bring about practice and policy changes to enhance social work practice in Singapore. One of Yan Ling s beliefs about social work practice is the ability to articulate and validate our work. Hence, Yan Ling is also expanding her social work practice to include the incorporation of evidence-based practice through research in her work.
Shirley has 30 years experience working in various areas within mental health. She is a qualified counsellor in both family therapy and person-centred therapy and is an advanced trainee in psychodrama. She is currently a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service. She is passionate about mental health; clinical supervision, therapy and group work. Shirley has many years experience engaging in and providing clinical supervision using a variety of different models. She enjoys applying creative methods to her clinical supervision practice with individual and/or clinical supervisees. She currently is one of the leading facilitators in developing, delivering and evaluating within Sydney Local Health District.
Mary has migrated twice, travelled extensively and her work-life and community life has been extremely varied. Mary has developed extensive practical living skills, capacity and resilience while adapting to the needs of her loved ones living with mental illness, co-morbidities and age related conditions. As Carer Representative with Parramatta Mission, Mary continuously advocates for systemic change; understanding, acknowledgement and removal of stigma so that Carers and their families can live their best life with respect and inclusion. Her aim is to raise awareness of the invaluable contribution Carers make to the lives of their loved ones; their communities and the Australian economy.
Sue is a clinical supervisor, supervisee, educator and student. She enjoys working with others and learning new things in the process. She is a Registered Nurse and Midwife and holds a Bachelor and Masters of Nursing (Hons). She is currently a PhD Candidate. Sue is the Senior Associate of Clinical Supervision Consultancy and facilitates Clinical Supervision for Role Development Training. She is researching the preparation of midwives and nurses as clinical supervisors as part of her PhD. Sue is a member of the Management Committee of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association (ACSA).
Kobie is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse who currently works as a Nurse Educator and Clinical Supervision Coordinator at the Metro North Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Services, Queensland, Australia. She is a Registered Nurse who has completed a Bachelor of Science (Nursing) and a Masters of Mental Health Nursing. Kobie has worked in the mental health and alcohol and drug setting for over 20 years. She completed her initial training as Nursing Clinical Supervisor in 2007. In her current role, Kobie delivers Nursing Clinical Supervision Training, and provides individual and group supervision to mental health and alcohol and drug clinicians.
Ian Hoffman Ian has been employed as the Consumer Representative for Parramatta Mission over the past 14 years, and a similar role at Cumberland Hospital for three and a half years prior. Providing as a priority Individual Advocacy for people living with the challenges of overcoming both the impact of serious and persistent ill health and mental distress, and a Peer Recovery and Education in support of people pursuing a quality of life as defined by them with hope and without discrimination. These relationships are built on mutuality and reciprocity. Ian is also a core member of the Quality and Clinical Improvement Task Force offering a Recovery focus. In this way, both the Advocacy for the people supported by Parramatta Mission and the Systemic Advocacy within, align practice and policy to mental health recovery.
Sonia was born and spent much of her time as a youngin on Dharawal country, about an hour south west of Sydney. It is between the mountains and the sea, pretty flat and a bit hot. She now lives and works on the land of the Eora people. Sonia travels around New South Wales, Australia, meeting with people for clinical supervision for a non-government organisation, which she enjoys very much especially the train journeys. She is also undertaking her Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work. She has been a social worker for 20 years practising in a range of different contexts and ways.
Finbar is employed at the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing (CPN) at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia since 2009 where she holds the position of Lecturer in Nursing. She has used this position to develop the nursing education and training stream for mental health nurses employed in public mental health services across Victoria. Finbar has contributed to research and training activity conducted through the CPN, as well as teaching and training across a range of disciplines within academic and specialist mental health service settings. As a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, she develops, teaches, and coordinates workshops on clinical supervision and action learning sets. Finbar was part of the Expert Reference Group that developed the Framework: Clinical Supervision for Mental Health Nurses document in 2017 and which is due for implementation in 2018. She is passionate about clinical supervision and reflective practice. She is a member of several professional and national associations, including the Australian Clinical Supervision Association (ACSA).
Fiona is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Tutor in the Doctoral Program of Clinical Psychology at the University of Auckland. She also works in part-time private practice. Her expertise lies in the areas of adult mental health, addiction, health professional self-care, wellbeing and resilience, positive psychology and clinical supervision. In relation to supervision, Fiona has been providing training in clinical supervision for many years, facilitating workshops for many health professionals both within the contexts of the university and health and social service organisations, for example, District Health Boards, Department of Corrections and the Ministry of Education. Fiona also conducts research and publishes on supervision, the most recent of which is a chapter in the New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS) publication, Professional Practice of Psychology in Aotearoa New Zealand. Fiona is also a member of the NZPsS executive committee, with the portfolio for Professional Development and Training.
Natalie Jack Natalie is a Melbourne-based supervisor, running a private practice offering clinical and professional supervision locally, interstate and internationally. Natalie has a background in music therapy and mental health, having qualified as a Registered Music Therapist from the University of Queensland in 1999, and with a Masters of Mental Health Science from Monash University in 2015. She has worked primarily in mental health, with offenders, in neurorehabilitation and with people with disabilities. Natalie provides workshops on supervision, stress & burnout, business practices for health professionals and giving effective feedback.
Paul is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with over 22 years experience in adult mental health. He completed his General Nurse training in the United Kingdom (UK) over 30 years ago and his Mental Health Nurse training in Sydney. He has attained a Master of Mental Health Nursing from the University of the Sunshine Coast. Paul is employed as a Mental Health Nurse Educator for the Redcliffe Caboolture Mental Health Service in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. His educational portfolio includes delivering training for nursing clinical supervision, providing clinical supervision in both individual and group settings and providing supervision of supervision.
Deborah has been working as a clinical psychologist for over 25 years. She currently works for the Specialist Mental Health Service for Older People, Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, as the senior clinical psychologist. Deborah has had many years of experience supervising postgraduate psychology students, psychologists and other allied health colleagues both individually and in group settings. She is a Psychology Board of Australia endorsed supervisor, working within an evidencebased cognitive behavioural therapy model. Deborah graduated from the University of NSW and has subsequently obtained her Masters degree in clinical psychology. She also holds a PhD from James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. Her clinical and research interests are cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of late-life depression and anxiety.
Andy has worked in the social service sector for more than 11 years. He is currently an Assistant Director with Viriya Community Services, Singapore, and his work includes the provision of casework services and clinical supervision, improving standards of practice through practice evaluation, training and organisational development. He is a Registered Counsellor as well as a Registered Social Worker. Andy holds a Masters of Social Science (Counselling) from the University of South Australia, Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Social Work from the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore, in addition to a Bachelor of Science with the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Alison is an accredited practicing dietitian and credentialed diabetes educator. Her permanent position is with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Diabetes Service leading a team of diabetes dietitians who provide clinical services across the lifespan in both acute and community settings. In recent years, Alison has taken on Senior Project Officer roles with the Chief Allied Health Office and Chronic Disease Management. She was responsible for the development and endorsement of an Operational Guideline for the Clinical Supervision of Allied Health Clinicians, including a tailored implementation plan for scientific, diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines.
Bev is a Clinical Midwifery Specialist, at The Tweed Hospital, New South Wales, Australia. She has worked across a variety of areas in midwifery over the past 30 years supporting childbearing women and families, and many students. She started her career as a hospital trained registered nurse working in paediatrics, endocrine, medical, and intensive care, completed her midwifery certificate, and went on to university to complete a Bachelor of Nursing. In 2008, Bev completed training in clinical supervision in the role development model, and discovered a new passion; supporting midwives with clinical supervision. Bev has cofacilitated workshops with Clinical Supervision Consultancy in this model since 2010. She presents at conferences on implementing effective clinical supervision. Bev has been researching the impact clinical supervision has for midwives through the Health, Education and Training Institute (HETI), New South Wales, Australia, Rural Research Capacity Building Program grant. Recently with the support of midwifery and research academics, the findings were published in a peer review journal.
Roger is a counselling psychologist who, for many years, taught in the Master of Counselling at Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia, arguably the first university course in Australia to feature supervision as a core component. Since leaving the university sector, he has focused on professional supervision, including the publication of the card resource, A Vision for Supervision: Strengths-based Questions for Reflective Conversations, co-authored with Russell Deal and published by Innovative Resources in 2014. He is currently interested in adapting systemic constellations to the field of supervision.
Noela holds a M Soc Sc, BA and a Dip Ed. In 1982, she trained in Psychosynthesis and began practising as a counsellor. In 2000 2001, she completed a Masters of Social Science, and from 2003, she divided her time between lecturing at universities in South Australia, Australia and working in an established private counselling practice in Adelaide, South Australia. Noela is strongly influenced by Assagioli, Frankl and Rogers, and her practice reflects this lineage. She currently works full-time in private practice as a counsellor and a supervisor. She is also inspired by the work of Parker Palmer and her insight into, and experience in, creative, reflective practice arises out of work with the Centre for Courage and Renewal.
Kerry is a Credentialed Registered Nurse with qualifications in mental health, drug and alcohol, counselling and higher education. She has worked in a variety of clinical areas, including drug and alcohol services, adolescent and adult mental health services. She has also been involved in teaching mental health nursing education for undergraduate nursing students for over ten years. In addition, at a major teaching hospital, Kerry is a nurse counsellor working alongside people who experience complex co-morbidity. She is also a clinical supervisor to registered nurses, and regularly runs a clinical supervision workshop for transition into specialty practice nurses.
Paul has been a qualified Sign Language Interpreter in the United Kingdom (UK) since 2011, after initially learning sign language to communicate with his profoundly deaf niece. He started to receive supervision for his interpreting work in 2016. Paul enrolled in the Diploma of Supervision in 2017 and completed it in 2018.
Bakadzi holds a Master Degree in Counselling and Human Services obtained from the University of Botswana. She is currently a Doctoral student at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (South Africa) specialising in Marriage and Family Counselling. Her research interests are in family and marriage related issues such as Western and Indigenous Premarital and Post marital counselling, couples and relationship counselling. Bakadzi is presently employed by the University of Botswana in the Educational Foundations Department, where she teaches counselling students and provides clinical supervision during practicum and internship exercises. Besides teaching, Bakadzi provides premarital and couples counselling.
Renee is a counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor, coach, educator and spiritual practitioner in her private practice business, Butterfly Courage. She works with a variety of clients, including couples, individual counselling, psychotherapy, supervision, business coaching, and holistic spiritual practice and guidance with her Heart & Soul Movement workshops and retreats. She has worked in the field for 16 years and holds a Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Masters in Applied Social Science. In her free time, she loves to ice skate, dance, write poetry and spend time with her husband and kids on the beautiful South Coast of NSW.
Aly is a Director of the New Zealand Coaching & Mentoring Centre and works throughout Australia and New Zealand (NZ) introducing people to this unique system for supervision. She runs supervision skills training for most of the NZ District Health Boards, has worked with Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia, on supervision training and also trains leaders in coaching and mentoring skills. Aly is a regular presenter at international conferences including the American Society for Training and Development Conferences (2009 2016), Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) Allied Health Conferences and the International Interdisciplinary Clinical Supervision Conference in New York.
Randolfo is Senior Project Officer at the Office of the Chief Mental Health Nurse, Victoria, Australia. He has ten years experience in public service, with a focus on workforce development policy and translation of policy into practice.
Kieran O Donoghue is an Associate Professor in Social Work at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, and a Research Associate of the Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is a registered social worker and has supervised social workers for 24 years. Kieran has taught and researched social work supervision for 20 years. His work on social work supervision is published internationally. Kieran s PhD thesis was focused on the construction of social work supervision in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Michele has practiced as a mental health nurse for over 35 years within community and inpatient settings in all areas of the developmental life cycle. She currently practices as a clinical nurse educator in mental health and, within this role, facilitates clinical supervision training. She has engaged in clinical supervision since the beginning of her career and had been offering supervision to others both individually and in groups, over the last 20 years. Her preferred model to work with is the role development model of clinical supervision. Michelle believes that clinical supervision has been integral in sustaining her practice, and therefore, values the opportunity to provide supervision for others utilising the space to reflect, to challenge, to choose, to care, and to change.
Matt works as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand and is involved in the delivery of social work theory and practice skills papers, child protection for the Bachelor of Social Work and Masters (Professional) degrees and Postgraduate Professional Supervision papers. He has provided external supervision to a range of inter-professional disciplines for many years and has practised in social work working with children, young people and families in Aotearoa New Zealand and in the United Kingdom. Matt recently completed his PhD thesis concerning the area of reflective supervision within community-based child welfare social work.
Anne is a Director of School Services for the New South Wales Department of Education. She has been a high school teacher, school counsellor, senior psychologist and Principal of two schools. Anne maintains her registration as a psychologist. During Anne s tenure as both Principal and Director for over 18 years she has been in demand as a presenter in the areas of attachment, trauma-informed practice and wellbeing. She is a highly acclaimed public speaker. Anne is no stranger to the area of supervision, having introduced the concept of peer supervision for executives working in special education and organised for their training. She has also completed the Michael Carroll training on Becoming an Effective Supervisor.
Cath held one of four pioneering staff-consumer consultant positions in mental health services in Victoria, Australia between 1995 and 1999. She later became the first consumer Academic in Australia, at the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing, University of Melbourne. Cath had annual involuntary admissions to mental health services over a thirteen-year period and these experiences continue to drive her research, teaching, training and policy work, particularly around exposing the human rights breaches caused by mental health laws. She believes that madness and distress are meaningful experiences. Her interests include all forms of consumer scholarship, alternatives to mainstream psychiatry, and consumer-run initiatives.
Bradley s mental health nursing career spans 39 years and he holds a Masters degree and a Diploma in Project Management from the Agency of Clinical Innovation. He is a keen advocate for clinical supervision, preceptorship and mentorship to enable all nurses to reach their full potential. Brad brings solid training and experience in group and individual supervision as well as a varied career with substantive positions held in clinical, management, education and consultancy in the fields of mental health and forensic mental health.
Gisele has been a social worker for over 15 years practising mostly in the mental health sector; however, she also has experience working in palliative care and emergency department care. She has worked in both community and inpatient settings and in management and clinical roles at many times throughout her career. More recently, Gisele has enjoyed project positions and policy development positions within the healthcare sector. Her formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Social Work, Masters of Public Health, and a Graduate Certificate in Research Methods. For Gisele, clinical supervision has been with her throughout all the changes in her career. She is passionate about the role clinical supervision plays in sustaining and supporting health professionals to do the important work they do each day in caring for others. Gisele believes that clinical supervision is a way of caring for ourselves so that we can continue to care for others.
Over the last ten years, Michelle has coordinated the Graduate Nurse Program for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She is responsible for planning, developing, mentoring and reviewing the program and supporting the graduate nurse s transition from student to registered nurse professionally, organisationally, personally and clinically. Michelle is also responsible for marketing of and recruitment to the program. She has completed a Graduate Diploma in Cancer Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education, Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment and a Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) focussing on best practice Graduate Nurse Programs.
Tom is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse, psychotherapist and supervisor based in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. He began training as a psychiatric nurse in New Zealand in the 1970s and encountered clinical supervision in that role. Subsequently, in various psychotherapy trainings and during several years of training in a role development model with Mike Consedine in the early 1990s, this experience evolved into a more formal and specific focus on the discipline of clinical supervision. Since then, Tom has continued to develop his supervision capacity and competency. He practices, writes, trains, presents, researches and teaches in the field, as well as maintains his own supervision. He is involved at board level in the non-government and professional mental health sectors, as well as current committee membership of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association (ACSA). He was the inaugural Chair of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) Clinical Supervision Special Interest Group (CS-SIG).
Julie is a Registered Nurse and Credentialed Mental Health Nurse who holds a General Nurs Cert, Crit Care Cert, Psych Nurs Cert, B.Ed, M.HSc (Psych Nurs), Adv. and Dip Gestalt Therapy. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) and Member of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN). Julie is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant in private practice. She has worked as a nurse since 1977, with 10 years experience in general and intensive care nursing before beginning psychiatric nursing. Since then, Julie has worked in general and specialist psychiatry, drug dependence and nursing management and education. In 1997, she commenced working as a Mental Health Nurse Consultant in general hospitals. Throughout her career, Julie has been in clinical practice for 38 years, which is a lot of time working with human suffering and human resilience. Julie has often been asked how she does the work she does. Without doubt, she believes that a key component of her survival in healthcare is good clinical supervision.
Elisabeth is a clinical and counselling psychologist specialising in couple and family therapy, and currently CEO of Relationships Australia New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and in private practice in Sydney NSW. Over the last 25 years, she has consulted to many services and practitioners in the public and private sectors in areas of clinical practice, management and supervision, and taught in three postgraduate masters programs in these areas. These services have included women s health, child abuse and sexual assault, drug and alcohol, schools, couple and family therapy services, and individual psychotherapists. She has published her work in supervision, focusing on the challenges of managing the balance between reflective practice and appraisal/gatekeeping components. Her most recent publication explores ethical and supervisory challenges in working with trauma. In addition, Elisabeth has published work in areas of relational ethics, domestic violence, couple and family practice, and is co editor of Couple Therapy in Australia, Issues Emerging from Practice. In the last 15 years, Elisabeth has specialised in working with professional ethics, and regularly presents and publishes her work in this area. She is a past chair of the PACFA ethics committee and APS Ethics Committees; a senior consultant with The Ethics Centre; and co-author with Michael Carroll of Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions, Making Difficult Life and Work Decisions. They followed up this work, individually and together, in areas of counselling psychology, ethics and couple and family therapy (Elisabeth) and provision of effective coaching (Michael). The philosophical underpinnings of ethical practice, in service of developing practice wisdom, influences all of her work.
Andrew has a Bachelor s Degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Social Work, a Diploma of Management and a Cert IV in Training and Assessment. He is a highly experienced facilitator of strengths-based practice, delivering workshops across many community and social service sectors throughout Australia and overseas. Through his training and group facilitation work, Andrew has developed a myriad of skills and experiences to share with new and seasoned practitioners. Andrew s commitment and dedication to reflective practice have earned him great respect while working extensively in both service delivery and management for more than 14 years. He is a facilitator of strengths approach learning and skills development for individuals, teams and organisations. Andrew is the practice development coach at St Luke s Innovative Resources, Victoria, Australia.
Julie is passionate about effective conversations that empower people to live their purpose. She has a particular interest in supporting clinical supervisors and nurses in their practice. As an experienced clinical supervisor, coach, mentor and facilitator with a background in mental health nursing, she brings an understanding of the challenges and opportunities we face, to embrace richer connections. She is passionate about supporting clients to evolve and embody their best selves. She is a co-facilitator with Clinical Supervision Consultancy, training health professions in the role development model. She also co-facilitates the delivery of an internationally recognised Diploma Coaching, Mentoring and Interpersonal Facilitation with Global Coaching Academy. She is the published author of Nursing by Heart: Transformational Self-care for Nurses (2015). Her book offers both an introduction and ongoing support for all who care for others and are looking to deepen their own self-care and reflection on practice.
Paul is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with extensive nursing and management experience. He is the Founder and Principal of Clinical Supervision Consultancy, and developer of the 8-days Clinical Supervision for Role Development Training for clinical supervisors. He provides training programs for clinical supervisors in several Australian States, and coconvened the first Australian Clinical Supervision Association (ACSA) Local Member Meeting in Sydney. Paul is currently the Vice President of ACSA, and is passionate about connecting people who are interested in clinical supervision.
Margaret has over 20 years experience in mental health nursing, primarily in inpatient services, and is an Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant in Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service, New South Wales, Australia. She is passionate about mental health nursing, frontline research, and promoting opportunities for reflective practice in mental health nursing as ways of supporting compassionate, consumer-centred care and staff wellbeing. Margaret is dedicated to clinical supervision, as a supervisee, clinical supervisor, and instructor in local clinical supervision training. She is also passionate about exploring creative means of addressing barriers to clinical supervision, and embedding facilitated reflective practice opportunities within the routines of nursing clinical practice.
Kate is a Registered Nurse with postgraduate qualifications in mental health nursing. She is also a clinical supervisor, who frames her supervision practice with role development / role theory. Kate s supervision development, in addition to her professional work role, has included development as a clinical supervisor, from point of care and management supervision as a Nurse Unit Manager into role development reflective clinical supervision. She is passionate about the utility of this approach to role development for nurses and believes strongly in its merit for nurses who have a long-term view of their career enhancement and development.
Antony is the author of three books on action methods and supervision, which have been translated into Finnish, Portuguese and Russian. A further book on consulting is currently in press. He conducts workshops around the world on using action methods to unravel individual and systemic problems. In Melbourne, Australia, he consults to organisations in the public and private sectors.
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