Australia Based Training
Diploma in Professional Supervision
The course is open to experienced practitioners who wish to better support the wellbeing of others and offers frameworks and practical ways of working across the professions.
Previous participants have included those from education and training sectors, counselling and psychological therapies; healthcare; pastoral and spiritual care; the not-for-profit sector; ministry; chaplaincy; government and youth work.
What is Professional Supervision?
Professional Supervision fosters an intentional dialogue between:
Soul – a person’s inner motivation
Role – the demands of a person’s field of work
& Context – the nitty gritty realities which enable or inhibit a person to find harmony between soul and role.
The course takes a soulful and inclusive approach to life and work and invites participants to engage with their own wisdom practices and traditions.
Creativity features strongly in the course and colour, sound, image, poetry and embodiment are all employed in supervisory teaching and practice.
Phase One – Experience as a Supervisee
Evidence confirms that the best way to learn to supervise is to have had prior experience of being well supervised. For this reason, prospective applicants are required to have been in supervision with a suitably qualified professional supervisor for a minimum of six sessions before commencing the course.
Training Programme
Phase Two – Diploma Level Course
Two, three-day Intensive in person Workshops
Ten Online Practitioner Workshops
Individual mentoring supervision (one hour per month over 12 months)
25 hours of supervisory practice over the duration of the course
Peer learning partnerships meeting virtually outside of the course days
Successful progression on the course and full completion of course requirements lead to the award of a
Diploma in Professional Supervision
Practical Information
2027/2028 DATES
In person workshops -2 × 3 day intensive workshops: 12-14 May and 5–7 October 2027
Online workshops on the following Tuesdays @ 17.00-20.00 (Melbourne time): 8 June; 6 July; 10 August; 7 September; 9 November; 7 December 2027; 18 January; 15 February; 14 March; and 4 April 2028
Please note that all dates are subject to cohort viability upon recruitment.
Eligibility: This course is open to reflective practitioners with a minimum of three years professional experience in their chosen discipline, and who have accrued a minimum of six sessions as a supervisee before the course commences.
Offering Supervision: Participants will build up a practice log of 25 hours of individual supervision over the course duration to gain the Diploma.
Being Supervised: Participants are required to receive monthly mentoring supervision on the supervision they offer from a qualified professional supervisor for the duration of the course to help them embed their learning and practice. This is a private arrangement made between the participant and the supervisor, and associated costs are not included in course fee. For best support, a register of supervisors recognised by the Institute as being familiar with the course material is available.
Assignments: Continuous assessment through a series of short Reflexive Learning Notes and an Independent Learning Project in Module 3.
Accreditation: The course meets the training requirements for membership with the Australasian Association of Supervision (AAOS). It may also contribute to the accreditation requirements of other professional bodies.
Application Process: Application Form; Referee Form; interview; offer of place.
Trainers
Dr Michael Paterson, Founding Director and Em Seinemeier, Regional Director (AU / NZ)
Input may also be provided by IPSRP Associates.
To express your interest in this course, please download and complete the Application Form and forward the Referee Form to the person supplying your reference.
Completed forms should be sent to emseinemeier.ipsrp@gmail.com