Rachel Hawthorne
Professional Supervision
I provide external supervision to a range of professionals working in diverse and demanding contexts. My aim is to create a supportive relationship that assists you to navigate complexity, build capability, and create sustainability over time in your work, whatever your role.
I regularly meet with school principals, lawyers, SENCOs, senior leaders, managers, and social, community, & youth workers, and I absolutely love the privilege of working with all my clients, no matter their working context.
I am available to meet face-to-face locally in Christchurch or remotely via Zoom. Contact me via the link below to find out more, or to arrange a time for an exploratory conversation.
I regularly meet with school principals, lawyers, SENCOs, senior leaders, managers, and social, community, & youth workers, and I absolutely love the privilege of working with all my clients, no matter their working context.
I am available to meet face-to-face locally in Christchurch or remotely via Zoom. Contact me via the link below to find out more, or to arrange a time for an exploratory conversation.
SERVICES
Professional Supervision can assist you to navigate a range of workplace issues
- Workplace Wellbeing ConsultancyConversations with Rachel can assist you with well-being at work, including managing overwhelm; balancing priorities; and identifying the right supports.
- Workplace Relations SupportConversations with Rachel can support you with workplace relationship dynamics, including dealing with workplace conflict; responding assertively; identifying patterns in responding; and asking for what you need.
- Career Transition CoachingConversations with Rachel can help you with considering your career options, including evaluating organisational alignment; professional learning goals & opportunities; creating a pathway of next steps.
What are the benefits of professional supervision?
External Supervision provides an opportunity for you to unload, reflect, and problem-solve work-related situations in a non-judgemental and confidential environment. No-one else is privy to what is covered in supervision sessions. Any written notes are held securely, and yours to view at any time.
A key benefit of supervision is the ability it has to assist you to combat stress, manage overwhelm, and build resilience in terms of the personal impact of your work. It has both a responsive and preventative role to play in that it can help identify short-term solutions and provide long-term benefits. Through leaning into strengths, observing patterns, building strategies, and broadening perspective, supervision has a huge role to play in enhancing your well-being in relation to work.
It is inevitable that issues arise in our work. Supervision can assist you to identify aspects of organisational culture, relational dynamics, and client demands that are causing difficulties, and it is a safe environment to trouble-shoot, brainstorm, resource yourself with new strategies, and practice responses that will help to create a shift when a situation feels challenging.
Your professional identity is important. Supervision is a space that provides the opportunity for you to explore what work means to you, celebrate successes, identify where and how you want to develop, and evaluate how it meets your needs.
Sometimes the demands and complexities of our roles take a large toll and maintaining energy and optimism can feel out of reach. Supervision can assist you to observe the impact work has on your own sense of personal sustainability; build resilience to navigate intensity; and identify mindsets, strategies, and skills that can grow your capability to respond and perform positively in your role without it coming at a personal cost or risking burn-out.
ABOUT RACHEL
Experience- After 25 years working in a variety of teaching, leadership, and pastoral roles within the education sector, I now have my own business offering supervision services to a range of professionals (eg: lawyers; principals; SENCOs; senior leaders; managers; those in not-for-profit governance, and social, community, & youth workers...)
- I have been offering Professional Supervision Services since 2018
Philosophy- Using a strengths-based, reflective approach, and through developing a confidential, supportive, and collaborative relationship, I work alongside clients to help you prioritise well-being, navigate complexity, grow capacity, and increase effectiveness and sustainability in your role - no matter what your working context
Qualifications- Post-Grad Diploma in Teaching; Masters in Educational Leadership; Post-Grad Certificate in Professional Supervision
AffiliationsI am an approved mentor with the Teaching Council NZ
I am a member of ACSA (Australian Clinical Supervisors Association)
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Professional Supervision & Capability Building
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Phone: 021 216 0933
Email: rachel@transformingconversations.nz
Email: rachel@transformingconversations.nz
Rachel Hawthorne
