Counselling Sheffield

Development Activities

Supervision, Mentoring, Group Work and Courses
I have a background in education and management in the voluntary and state sector and this, alongside my qualifications in counselling/psychotherapy and supervision enables me to offer other opportunities for personal and professional development.

I offer supervision on a monthly or fortnightly basis. My approach is integrative with a transpersonal perspective. My rates are £45 per hour.

I also offer mentoring and coaching to other professionals working with people

I run small groups on a regular basis with a focus on life and work issues. Currently I am running a learning set of 4 sessions on Enabling effective performance through Essential Conversations for the Fair Training network. This is running Sept-Dec 08.

An outline of this is given below. If you are an individual who is interested in future events of a similar nature or if you think this approach might be of benefit in enabling your organisation learn and grow, then please contact me for an initial discussion. Tel: 0114 2554484 or 07990 572775 or email me using the link to the left. Mary Marken

Supervision, coaching and mentoring can be viewed as a series of essential conversations. When effective, they create a shift in perspective, understanding, attitude and action.

This experiential and participatory learning set is for independent consultants and service managers working within the voluntary, community and statutory sectors who have responsibility for ensuring and/or enabling the performance of others. – whether as management or professional supervisors, coaches or mentors.

Each set will combine teaching and opportunities to learn from each other through group exploration of individual dilemmas and case material. Overall the set will work from and build on the live questions and issues of participants and provide the opportunity to integrate and test theory and practice.

Within this it is expected that this set will:

Explore what constitutes an essential conversation

Develop skills of essential conversation across contexts and roles

Identify risks and pitfalls in 1-1 work and how to circumnavigate these

Clarify the differences in management and professional supervision, coaching and mentoring

Use participant’s dilemmas to highlight and elaborate key creative tensions in facilitating individual learning and change within an organisational context.

Additionally, through working in a group in this way, participants will be experiencing ways of working with groups as well as with individuals.