“ …….Since our first meeting, I have been looking forward to meeting the group and it is very valuable to me. I also consider the fact that it does not consist only of psychologists as a big plus for me. After each meeting, I learn new things, I want to read more, I try to delve deeper into the things we have talked about. I gradually try to implement the recommendations and feedback during our meetings in my work.”

This is the feedback of one of the participants in the supervision group, which the Association “Reflective Learning Bulgaria” started in December 2023. The group includes 8 specialists who work with children, adolescents and families in psychotherapeutic practices, consulting centers in state and non-governmental organizations, in social services. These practitioners have different experiences, apply knowledge from different schools and directions in the helping professions, and this turned out to be an advantage, not a challenge for the group. The differences of the participants are an incentive to learn from other people’s experience, and thinking about clients from different groups is an asset. This is a result of the participants’ ability to overcome the boundaries of their own school and experience to dedicate the thinking in the group to the person who wants help.

An interesting aspect of the work in this group is the organizational context that the participants discuss. It seems that regardless of the differences in the services in which the help is provided, all professionals need to make additional consultative efforts to structure their own practice. That is why the supervisors pay special attention in the group.

Each supervision lasts 2 astronomical hours, in which the group works on two cases. They work with both levels of the therapeutic process: the relationship and the content. The participants make hypotheses about the meaning of the relationships and difficulties, and give suggestions for overcoming the barriers to the process.

The group is closed and will continue until the end of May 2024.

The group leaders follow the standards of supervision: to develop clinical thinking, to understand unconscious aspects of the client’s experiences, to achieve successful interventions, to maintain a safe environment for specialists in which they feel comfortable thinking about their practice and hearing alternatives to their ideas.

Here is some more feedback from the participants:

“I received adequate answers and was able to practically apply them in my work. So, definitely for some aspects of practice, this supervision helps me”.

“The guidelines and different perspectives on the cases that I have shared have opened up space for me and give me a different angle with which to help myself in practice”.

If you are interested in joining a supervision group, follow our page for the announcement of a new group from September 2024.

If you are interested in individual or group supervision, contact us at reflectivelearningbg@gmail.com