Supervision Webinar Series Parts 1-4

The four-part webinar programme on Supervision, is designed to give family law practitioners a grounded understanding of the challenges affecting wellbeing in practice and the ways supervision can offer meaningful support. The webinars will be presented by Vanessa Gardiner, a family law supervisor providing reflective practice for family lawyers and legal professionals at Vanessa Gardiner Supervision.

This webinar series is for all professionals working in family law, at all levels and all points in their career, whether working in law firms, at the Bar or the Judiciary.   It will explain what the risks and concerns are for those working in modern family law, introduce supervision and reflective practice and how it can help you to understand and support your own wellbeing as practitioners, develop healthy working practices and relationships with clients, colleagues and others we work with and  to  consider other available resources, including use of experts and organisations which can compliment regular supervision.

Webinar 1

Focus on the risks to wellbeing within family law and introduce supervision

• Wellbeing concerns and challenges within the legal profession and family law.
• What is supervision and reflective practice?
• How can I receive it, who pays, and how does it work?
• The benefits of supervision/reflective practice for individuals, firms and chambers.

Webinar 2

Focus on Supervisees

• Talking about yourself in supervision and what you might be experiencing at work.
• What can I talk about including relationships (collegiate and management), workloads, boundaries, vulnerabilities, vicarious trauma
• Unexpected situations where supervision can support supervisees & personal circumstances
• How supervision can help you work through these challenges.

Webinar 3

Focus on Clients and Supervisee-Client relationships

• Addressing concerns over client relationship/dynamics
• Strategies for building/maintaining healthy communication
• Difficult client behaviour, including resistant behaviour, entrenchment, lack of safety
• How supervision can help you work through these challenges.

Webinar 4

How else can we support ourselves and clients to improve wellbeing and mental health within family law.

• Multi-disciplinary approach of utilising other experts including divorce coaches and how can they help legal professionals
• When is counselling and psychotherapy are appropriate and how is it different to supervision
• Leadership training
• Financial support for lawyers
• Other resources and organisations who can provide support