Reflection is not always a positive and desirable process and both supervisees and supervisors need to be ready to move into reflective practice.[1] This is because exploring the more challenging and difficult aspects of practice requires motivation, energy and openness and we can become self-protective. Supervisors need an empathic, non-judgemental approach and to gauge the supervisee’s willingness to explore deep reflection.
Sometimes, there are tensions. Organisations must balance wanting a healthy learning culture that embraces reflective practice and feedback/feedforward, with practitioner reflection readiness.
‘It can be difficult to embed reflective practice at first because it involves time and conscious effort but with persistence it becomes natural and habitual.’
— Hewson and Carroll, 2016[2]
References
[1] Hewson and Carroll, Reflective Practice in Supervision.
[2] Hewson and Carroll, Reflective practice in supervision.
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