About the Course
This workshop has been co-designed with Aboriginal community-controlled organisations to strengthen culturally safe supervision practices across the community services sector. It recognises that effective supervision not only enhances professional growth and client outcomes, but also supports the wellbeing of workers who often carry both professional and cultural responsibilities within their roles.
Supervision is a vital space for reflection, support, and learning—particularly for those walking in two worlds or holding the cultural load in their workplaces. This training moves beyond “quick fix” approaches, offering a holistic framework for supervision that balances accountability, support, development, and mediation.
Participants will learn to:
Understand the four key functions of supervision—administration, support, development, and mediation—through a culturally responsive lens.
Build strong, respectful supervision relationships that honour both cultural and organisational expectations.
Facilitate reflective practice that supports growth, resilience, and cultural safety.
Adapt supervision to meet different learning styles and stages of professional development.
Use solution-focused and strengths-based approaches to guide feedback and problem-solving.
Develop supervision agreements, structures, and recording systems that support clarity and accountability.
Create safe spaces for discussing challenges, raising difficult issues, and nurturing collective wellbeing.
Who should attend:Managers, team leaders, coordinators, and experienced practitioners in community or health services—particularly those in or supporting roles within Aboriginal community-controlled organisations.
Your Instructor
Sandy Rawson
Sandy Rawson is a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, Director, and trainer who has spent more than 20 years working alongside children, young people, families, and communities across regional and remote NSW. Her training is shaped by deep clinical experience and a genuine commitment to building the confidence, insight, and practical skills of workers, caseworkers, practitioners, and professionals across the human services sector. Sandy brings extensive expertise in trauma, family violence, child safety, behaviour support, and healing through connection, and is known for delivering training that is engaging, reflective, evidence-based, and highly relevant to the realities of frontline work.
Bring this training to your workplace
Rawson Psychologists and Consultants will travel to deliver in house Core Training aimed at practitioners working with children in family violence including Psychology, Social Work, Case Work, Support Work, Education, Early Childhood, Health, Legal, Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Get in touch to discuss today.
