Understanding Past and Current Supervisory and Mentored Relationships

MOVING FORWARD WITH PURPOSE REQUIRES REFLECTION

Building and Sustaining Meaningful and Effective Relationships as a Supervisor and Mentor chapter 3 part 1/3

“A great supervisor can serve as a model for future great supervisors and, unfortunately, an ineffective supervisor can serve as a model for future ineffective supervisors.”

Reflecting on past supervisory relationships allows you to:

1. Be an active participant in your own learning
2. Have increased gratitude for your “influencers”
3. Have an increased understanding of the models you’ve observed
4. Identify examples and non-examples
5. Identify your professional development needs and new areas of interest

Reflection allows us to purposefully cultivate helpful repertoires and prune unhelpful repertoires acquired from our supervisors.