Supervision Taster Day
Trainers: Ali Hetherington and Omoyele Thomas
Do you sometimes feel isolated and unsupported in your work? Do you want somewhere to talk through issues that arise in confidence? Are you interested in supervision, but are unsure where to find a supervisor and what you can expect from supervision? Find out more
Interpreting can be demanding and an understanding of how we react to people and situations can increase our resilience and enable us to provide the best service we can to those we work with. Supervision is a safe, non judgemental space for you to reflect on your practice in confidence with a trained supervisor. Trust is central to the supervisory relationship and you will have the opportunity to explore what to expect from supervision and what to look for in a supervisor.
The day will include:
- Exploration of how supervision can enhance professional practice and support you in your work
- How to find a supervisor and what questions to ask them
- The differences between professional supervision, mentoring, line management supervision and NRCPD supervision.
- An opportunity to see supervision in action through a live supervision session with the workshop facilitators.
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Work related stress, vicarious trauma and burnout
The workshop outlines the physical, psychological and physiological theory of stress, vicarious trauma and burnout and explores the impact these can have on the work, and health, of sign language interpreters. Participants will learn about the neuroscience of arousal and how the body, with the help of the mind, remembers – often unhelpfully. find out more
The day will include:
- An exploration of the physical, physiological and psychological experiences of stress
- An introduction to the neuroscience of arousal
- An exploration of how the body, with the help of the mind, remembers - often unhelpfully
- How to recognise individual stress indicators
- How to identify signs of vicarious trauma and burnout
- Techniques for reducing the risk of work related stress, vicarious trauma and burnout in practitioners.
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Professional Boundaries
We devised a workshop focused on Boundaries as a direct response to the feedback we were receiving from Interpreters, who are experiencing a conflict between their desire to respond as human beings and fears that they may be perceived as unprofessional.
Interpreters are expected to be impartial and maintain professional boundaries when working, even when they may be interpreting distressing or emotionally charged material. Find out more
Our Boundaries workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore their personal and professional boundaries and, through the work done on the day, give strategies to employ in situations when their boundaries are pushed, including why they may feel pulled to go over and above with some clients.
The day will include:
- Internal boundaries – determined by core values and experience
- External boundaries – how we assert and experience a professional ‘no’
- How clear communication and mutually understood agreement helps boundary definition
- How maintaining boundaries can help prevent diminished practice and raise practitioner resilience.
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Introduction to Transactional Analysis
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a theory of personality development and communication that can be useful for anyone who wishes to understand more about themselves and their relationships with others. For example, do you find it hard to say no, or have a tendency to avoid conflict situations? Do you ever wonder why you sometimes feel like a child again, or find yourself behaving like your parents?
Our experiential workshop will give you a working understanding of TA to help you understand difficult interpersonal dynamics you may have with clients or colleagues and why you may repeat unhelpful patterns of behaviour.
Find out moreThe day will include:
- An introductory overview of Transactional Analysis
- An exploration of how we learnt to think, feel and behave as we do
- Identifying patterns of communication - socially and professionally
- Awareness, and management of potential interpersonal dynamics at play in conflict situations
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Transference and Projection
Do you ever take an instant dislike to someone with no apparent reason? Or conversely warm to some people without knowing why?
Transference causes people to unconsciously experience, and respond to, others based on past significant relationships. The concept of transference was first described by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and, although the concept originated in therapeutic situations, it is also relevant to help us understand what can happen in any type of relationship, both personal or professional. Find out more
Participants will have the opportunity to explore the thinking, feeling and behaviours that indicate transference within a relationship. The workshop will also explore the phenomenon of projection, a psychological defence mechanism in which individuals attribute characteristics they find unacceptable in themselves to another person.
At the end of the day participants will have an increased awareness of how these interpersonal phenomena can affect interpreters and those they work with.
Learning outcomes:
- Explore the concept of transference/countertransference and projection
- Develop an understanding of the psychological, physiological and physical effects of transference and projection
- Recognise the importance of transference, countertransference and projection in professional practice
- To recognise body cues that inform us that transference, countertransference or projection are occurring
- Develop techniques to separate the there and then from the here and now.
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