TRANSCRIPT 🔗
WEBVTT
00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:12.640
Welcome to the Your Wild Potential podcast, a place where we normalize the unusual, we celebrate the wins, we unpack the challenges, and we support one another to just get living.
00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:22.079
I'm your host, Cassandra Roberts, social worker, a mental health first aid instructor, your resident mental health coach, and your number one cheerleader.
00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.600
So, this is your wild potential.
00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.200
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands that we live, work, and play on.
00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:41.920
We acknowledge the Yagura and the Torrible people as the traditional owners of the lands where the Your Wild Potential podcast is recorded from.
00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:48.320
We pay our respects to elders past and present and thank them for their years of wisdom and culture.
00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:57.280
Information heard in this episode is information only and should not replace any advice provided by your own health professionals.
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.399
Heya and welcome back to the Your Wild Potential podcast.
00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:08.640
I just want to do a quick shout out and thank you to all those people that have been listening to our past episodes.
00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:14.159
It's quite a daunting task, to say the least, in terms of putting this podcast out there.
00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.120
It's a lot.
00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:17.040
There's a lot of big feelings in doing that.
00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:24.959
So I really appreciate if you are listening in, tuning in, sharing, commenting, liking, whatever it is you're doing.
00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:26.719
I really, really appreciate that.
00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.239
So thank you so much.
00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:31.040
I hope that you're enjoying what you've heard so far.
00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:35.519
It's definitely been a lot of fun uh recording these episodes, getting that out to you.
00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:37.519
Yeah, so that's that.
00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:48.079
In today's episode, you've got me, Cassandra, and I am going to be chatting to you a little bit about reflective supervision services that we offer through Finding Your Wild Potential.
00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:52.799
So something a little bit different, perhaps, to other episodes that have come out so far.
00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:58.159
But yeah, I guess just giving you an introduction into what that service is, what that might look like.
00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:02.400
I have no doubt that I will probably leave out some things or forget things.
00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:08.080
So if you have any questions, I would love to hear from you after you've had a listen.
00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:15.840
So our reflective supervision is a service for who I like to refer to as our humans that are supporting humans.
00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:36.879
So that might be those working in the mental health field, our allied health roles, NDIS supports and support workers, or maybe you're a student that's beginning to look into working into those fields, as well as our other humans that support humans in either a management, leadership, or an employer position as well.
00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:43.919
Because I think we often forget that in this space that those people are also human supporting humans.
00:02:44.080 --> 00:03:00.800
So our reflective supervision is a space to explore a few different things, or like many different things, but really what's been happening for you in your work, all of it, like the particularly the parts that are important to you or the parts that have been challenging you, the parts that excite you, the parts that you want to learn more about.
00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:07.919
So, you know, the good, the bad, the ugly, the meaningful, the tough times, the wins, the challenges, all of it.
00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:12.960
We look at how those experiences might be impacting you at both a professional and a personal level.
00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:18.800
And on the flip side, how your personal life might be impacting your professional life as well, flipping that around.
00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:25.439
Then from there, we might be looking at why you are responding the way you are in your professional capacity, in your roles.
00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.199
So, what are the choices you're making?
00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.240
What are the patterns behind your decision making?
00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:39.840
All those things that are creating how you make a professional decision or take professional action in your role, depending on what that role might look like.
00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:48.800
And then I think some of the perhaps more important things as well is looking at your growth and development goals in your professional field, your career development, what does that look like?
00:03:48.960 --> 00:04:06.159
And how we can enhance your work, how we can enhance your experiences, how we can learn to either stay in that career pathway that you're on and grow and continue to develop, or maybe it's a pivot in your career to something totally different, exploring that and unpacking that a lot.
00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.400
So you might be asking why engage in reflective supervision?
00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.800
A fair question, I'd say.
00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:20.720
I guess I see reflective supervision as a really important confidential space where you get to chat about your work practices.
00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:26.399
And it obviously in this instance with someone that is not in your field or in your workplace.
00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:28.399
I say not in your field, that might be.
00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:37.040
And obviously, in the in this uh scenario, you are chatting with someone that's external to perhaps your workplace or or your field as well.
00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:44.639
So having that external sounding board, that external reflective space to have these conversations.
00:04:45.199
Load full transcript
--> 00:04:53.120
So in that instance, we're really chatting about what you've done already and and why and how we can improve on that moving forward.
00:04:53.439 --> 00:05:08.959
But I also see it as this really, really important space where you can decompress as well and chat about the tough times and chat about what's challenging you in your workplace, what might be holding you back where you think you might need to pivot or grow or shift or change.
00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.680
And those are sometimes the real tough conversations.
00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:27.040
They're the conversations that perhaps about the things that are causing you a little bit of anxiety or you know, keeping you up at night, heaven forbid, those are the things that we want to unpack and we want to, I guess, help you to feel lighter and feel more ready to take on those things.
00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.439
And I guess the reason for me personally, I think that these conversations are so important.
00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:53.360
I mean, not only for your your growth and development and your career progression and you know, delivering safe and high-quality supports and practices, those things obviously super, super important, but also because after all, uh, I do think that supporting someone else's mental health, well-being, growth and development shouldn't come at the cost of your own.
00:05:53.519 --> 00:06:01.279
And I think that's often what we see is people either get into a role where they're supporting other people and it might impact their own well-being.
00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:21.759
And whether that is in the mental health space or health services in general, but also in those leadership and management positions as well, you sort of make it to the top or what you think might be a really great role, what you've been working towards, and sometimes your own growth, your own growth and caring for your yourself and your own practices becomes a bit stagnant as well.
00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:29.920
With that in mind, I guess we know that the rate of burnout and turnover in these roles is extremely high, like hugely, hugely high.
00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:42.480
So I think then from a strategic perspective, if if you want to be able to have a really long career in this field, we need to be looking at how we support ourselves in different ways as well, and what does that look like?
00:06:42.720 --> 00:07:01.040
From then a perspective of looking to change systems, I guess, we know that our workforce, particularly in our health spaces, is not huge, and we don't have this never-ending supply of new staff coming through through from students and entering the workforce.
00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:14.959
So we really need to be looking after our staff, after our team members, so that we do have some longevity in those positions to be able to keep performing to the best of their ability and supporting our community, keeping everyone healthy and safe as well.
00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:20.240
Our reflective supervision sessions aren't a clinical supervision as such.
00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:29.519
I mean, I am a social worker, I work in a social work field, I work in a mental health space, so I understand the importance of clinical supervision.
00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.160
However, that's not something that I deliver.
00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:43.040
Sure, depending on if we work in a similar field, we might touch on some interventions or therapies or something like that, but I wouldn't call this a clinical supervision.
00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:56.399
It is really around leaning into that critical reflection side and having those big open conversations around, as I've said already, what's going well, what's challenging, what do you want to work on, what does that look like as such.
00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:04.000
Sure, we might then lean into and encourage you to link in with clinical supervision or seek other supports or training and all of that.
00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:11.199
Absolutely, that might be part of the conversation we have and part of your ongoing growth and development plan that you want to look to and work towards.
00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.639
Our reflective supervision sessions are really guided by you.
00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:20.959
And so you might choose to come to a session and reflect on or discuss a challenge that you're facing in your work.
00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:29.600
You might want to look at how you can enhance your working relationships with either your clients or your colleagues or your employees as well.
00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:44.960
Pretty importantly, and something that we often forget, is that we also want to create a space where you get to celebrate your wins and acknowledge everything that's been going well, acknowledge the things that you've been working on, acknowledge the improvements that you're seeing in your practice.
00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:50.240
All of those things that quite easily and quickly slip off the radar for us.
00:08:50.480 --> 00:09:10.960
A part that really excites me, obviously, if you if you know me and have been listening in for a while, is that it's a space where you can identify what your career goals might look like and to understand what your aspirations are and to create really practical plans of how we might be able to take that next step forward in your career and your growth and development plans.
00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:12.320
What does that look like?
00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:21.440
How are you supporting yourself to improve, to try things differently, to reach your goals in a professional sense?
00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.799
It's really guided by you and what it is that you're wanting.
00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.519
You might choose to focus on something different every session.
00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:33.919
We might shop and change, you might have a plan that we follow for a couple of sessions, three, four sessions together.
00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:40.480
It's totally up to you,
and we have that conversation together and really be guided by what's going to work best for you.
00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:48.879
And I guess to sort of finish up and wrap things up, a quick short, sharp podcast today is the logistical thing.
00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:53.919
So sessions can be completed online via Zoom, Teams, you know, all that jazz.
00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.559
We're all used to that by now, or locally in Brisbane, depending on what's going to work for you.
00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.120
And I think, you know, being flexible is really important.
00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:06.240
But also, I guess if I can leave you with one other, I was gonna say one important thing.
00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:23.039
One other important thing is I guess the emphasis on how important it is that you are prioritizing this stuff for yourself, your own professional well-being and growth, because depending on the position you're in and the work you're doing, that might slip off really, really quickly.
00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:36.399
And if I think about some examples, is particularly in the mental health space, supervision of any variety is really common and in fact is needed for people to be able to maintain their professional registrations.
00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.960
But in other spheres and working spaces, supervision might not even be a thing.
00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:51.039
I've had conversations with people where they've never heard of it in this sort of capacity and haven't really had a chance to indulge in that such, for lack of a better term.
00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:58.720
I guess in other spaces you might look for coaching or mentoring and really focus on that development in that space, which is great.
00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:02.480
If that's what you're after, absolutely, and that's working for you, go for it.
00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:04.799
What we're doing here is perhaps a little bit different.
00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:12.159
We're not necessarily always striving for the next thing, but reflecting on what's already happened and having those big, deep, open conversations.
00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:16.720
So if any of that sounds appealing for you, or as I said at the start, I've probably missed something.
00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.279
So if you've got any questions, please reach out.
00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.559
I'd love to hear from you.
00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:34.159
In terms of how we go about scheduling or setting up an appointment, you can, if you're not sure if I'm the right fit for you or if our conversations are going to meet your need, we can definitely book in a free 15-minute meet and greet call to have a bit of a yarn about that.
00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:35.919
I guess no obligations.
00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.039
Try before you buy type setup.
00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.720
And also, if you're a student listening in and seeking some reflective supervision, please reach out.
00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:49.039
You will definitely have access to a sneaky little discount code as well.
00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:57.519
I, as a social worker, know the trickiness of student life, but also the trickiness of placement life as well.
00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:01.279
But hopefully those on placement have their supervision sorted anyway.
00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:06.559
So, anyway, I am rambling, so that's probably a good sign that we are done here.
00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:08.000
Thanks for listening in.
00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:14.720
As I said, if I've missed anything, you've got any questions, or you're interested in hearing more about reflective supervision, please reach out.
00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:24.480
Uh, you can either contact me via email, website, through our Finding Your Wild Potential website, or on the Finding Your Wild Potential socials as well.
00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:32.720
I will put all those details into our episode notes as I might not get them right if I say them out loud.
00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.759
Um, so I'll pop them all there as well.
00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.440
Thanks for listening in.
00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.679
We will chat to you next episode.
00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:40.320
Bye.
00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.279
Thank you for listening to today's episode.
00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:51.279
We hope that this episode has sparked something in you and encourages you to take that next step in continuing to live your own wild potential.
00:12:51.519 --> 00:13:03.279
If you feel so, please connect with us on social media at Finding Your Wild Potential and share some love by sharing this episode around to your loved ones and leaving us a review on your chosen podcast app.
00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:16.720
If this episode has brought anything up for you, please reach out for support through your regular GP, your local mental health service, or by calling Lifeline on 131114.