A Torch, A Container, A Mirror, A Journey, A Sculpture - Supervision Looks Different For Everyone.

A torch, a container, a mirror, a play area, a journey, a sculpture are some images and metaphors from supervisees trying to describe what supervision meant and looked like for them. 🙃 🙂

A torch, illuminating your work;

A container, a safe place, a place to feel held and heard;

A mirror, where I see myself and my work;

A play area, a place to explore options, try new things, play with new ideas, hunches, theories, intuitions;

A journey, walking the path of your work life, where to go, what to take, what to leave;

A sculpture, being fashioned into something yet to be.

Supervision means different things to different people. What does it look like for you? What could it look like for you? What are the metaphors or images you would use? Do they change for you?

Law can be a challenging and rewarding career. However, no area of law is immune from heightened emotions, stress, and responsibility. From the graphic nature of criminal law, highly emotionally charged family law or migration law, deadlines & money of commercial and conveyancing, the grief or fear of death/ sickness in Wills and Estates; the lawyer shares proximity to people and clients undergoing stressful experiences.

Often these traumas take on a successive, cumulative nature and are not one-off events. All practice areas of law take their toll and are manifested to some degree, at some point, by the lawyer. 🤯

✅ Want to know more? DM or email deirdre.eaglesupervision@gmail.com ✅

There are many stressors in law: heavy workloads, administrative and financial pressures, public accountability, client accountability (including direct customer/ client, employer, or the wider landscape of the law), limited resources, billable hours, the risk of complaint and reporting. The adrenaline hit can be exciting and fulfilling but the juggling act can be exhausting, confusing, fraught with danger and can lead to a lawyer feeling alone and anxious at the very least. It is well documented that lawyers suffer from higher levels of distress, depression, and anxiety than the general population.🤯

Deirdre May, originally from Scotland, is an admitted and practising solicitor in rural NSW, Australia of nearly 20 years She is also a trained professional supervisor for lawyers of all ages, stages, and practice areas.

Your ability to participate in supervision is not confined by geography with the options of online or telephone supervision as well as face to face supervision. - Take the first step ✅ DM or email deirdre.eaglesupervision@gmail.com ✅

source - 'On Being A Supervisee, Creating Learning Partnerships, M Carroll & M Gilbert, Psycoz publications