Trainers: Alyssa Cedillo LPC-S, RPT-S ™ & Associates
6 CE Training
Please note that this training will be held virtually. A link to join will be emailed to you ahead of the event.
As supervisors we are not only responsible for meeting board requirements but are often tasked with helping associates to identify who they are as healers and who they want to be. What we as supervisors choose to attune to, how we foster growth, who we include in conversation, and the means in which we engage with healers in training is directly interconnected with the type of healing our community has access to.
When "Western" psychology’s dominating definition of health is forced onto people of diverse cultures, it can cause further stigmatization, shame, and division among families and communities. We must ask ourselves; how does this same system cause chronic disconnection when working with the next generation of healers?
To interrupt the cycle of pain we see in our communities we will explore how to shift supervision from top-down to bottom-up process and guide our supervises as they engage in ethical healing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom.
To do this in a decolonial way we will be inviting fully licensed, provisionally licensed and supervisor level clinicians to attend alongside each other as we work collaboratively to shift from power-hoarding to power sharing. This requires providers to be willing to unlearn and heal to collaborate in anti-oppressive, non-exploitive ways with each other.
We will explore a shift from strictly valuing evidence-based practice to ancestral wisdom of incorporating practice-based evidence in our supervision process. Participants will actively work through the session to Decolonize power, knowledge, and relationships. A process that we must commit to as ethical mental health professionals who are guiding our future healers.
Attendees will walk away with practical tools and techniques that they can immediately apply in supervision practice, all while contributing to a more equitable and responsive supervisory framework!
1. Attendees will identify at least three systemic barriers in the supervision process that limit a supervisor’s ability to guide future clinicians.
2. Attendees will be able to describe three features of a bottom-up process to help clinicians-in-training build insight into their own pain brought on by institutionalized oppression and how that affects treatment in the community
3. Attendees will identify and explore at least three different anti-oppressive power sharing approaches in supervision.
4. Attendees with can grow in supervisory alliance and ask questions to current supervisory level students in order to access their wisdom to improve supervisory skills and critically reflective skills.
