Continuing Education
About The Live CE Event
Date and Time: Saturday, 7/11/26, 10am – 1pm EST
Learning Method: Synchronous distance (interactive). Attendees will also get access to a recorded video and the presented resources.
Amount of CE Credit Offered: 3 credits for both ASWB ACE and NBCC.
Fees: This live event is available to subscribers of our annual unlimited continuing education subscription, available for $99/year, which includes 12+ live events per year and 150+ CE courses!
Certificate of Completion: To receive a certificate of completion, you must attend the entire live event.
Course Description: Social work supervision is far more than oversight or accountability. It is a deeply relational, narrative space where supervisees bring not only their caseloads but also the childhood adaptations, survival strategies, and internal stories that shaped who they had to be long before entering the profession. These early roles—such as the fixer, the overachiever, the invisible one, or the protector—often reemerge in supervision as perfectionism, fear of feedback, over-functioning, or difficulty setting boundaries.
This workshop reframes supervision as a site of potential healing rather than reenactment. Participants will explore how trauma-informed supervision recognizes the narratives supervisees carry, attunes to the nervous system in the room, and balances accountability with compassion. Through reflection, case examples, and experiential application, attendees will learn how supervisors can interrupt harmful professional scripts, model authentic regulation and boundaries, and create supervision spaces that foster safety, belonging, honest reflection, and professional sustainability.
This workshop is designed for supervisors, field instructors, emerging leaders, and practitioners seeking to deepen their supervision practice through a trauma-informed, narrative lens.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and interpret: Identify common childhood trauma adaptations (e.g., fixer, overachiever, invisible one) and interpret how these patterns may reappear in the supervisory relationship through behaviors such as over-functioning, fear of feedback, performance anxiety, or conflict avoidance.
- Apply and facilitate: Apply trauma-informed supervisory postures—curiosity over judgment, attunement over assumption, boundaries with compassion, and narrative awareness—and facilitate reflective conversations that surface supervisees’ underlying narratives without shame or pathologizing.
- Model and implement: Model sustainable professional behavior by demonstrating regulated presence, healthy boundaries, and authentic self-awareness, and implement supervisory practices that help supervisees revise old narratives, build new patterns of professional identity, and cultivate long-term resilience and wellbeing.
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