Build your leadership skills and contribute to the next generation of practitioners

When: Monday, 18 August 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Duration: 7 hours
Location: Online

The key to great practice is great supervision. Are you a practice or clinical supervisor in the alcohol and other drug sector or looking to become one? Level up your supervisory skills by learning about effective supervision frameworks, building key supervision skills, and gaining strategies to manage challenges with our Superskills for Supervisors workshop.

Gain a deep understanding of the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’ and ensure that you have the right theoretical and practical foundation skills to offer powerful practice supervision across different contexts and supervisees.

You will learn about developing and implementing supervision contracts and plans, assessing supervisee development needs, and navigating challenges and roadblocks.

On average, participants of Superskills for Supervisors report a 47% increase in knowledge, 49% increase in skills, and 52% increase in confidence. Satisfaction is rated at 8.7/10 on average and 88% of participants would recommend this workshop to others.

Learning outcomes

• Understand different approaches to supervision and determine which one is right for you and your supervisees
• Understand and apply structured practical supervisory processes to deepen core supervisory relationship skills, including listening, questioning, guiding, and giving and receiving feedback
• Increase skills in facilitating reflective practice in staff
• Understand and utilise a framework to support decision making with ethical dilemmas

Who should attend

This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for advanced practitioners who are current or future practice supervisors. This workshop is suitable for workers in low threshold and clinical settings.

Facilitator: Dr Richard Cash

“The best training I've been to for a very long time. It was well delivered and well paced with lots a great ideas.”

- Workshop participant, 2024