Supervision Programme

Welcome to our Coram Deo practitioner-supervision programme. The hard copy prospectus is included on this page or it can be scanned via the QR code and then downloaded.

Exit monotony

Rekindle your passion

Embrace the journey

Join our prospective learner group

Prospective students are either enroled for the next intake or are still considering to get involved. The learning website makes it easy to get answers directly within the prospective learner community. It gives participants a head start to how the learning website works that supports live meeting processes.

Learn more here.

Information documents

Open and, or, download the following document.

Next intake

First class: To commence during February

For Counsellors, Coaches, Leaders, Managers, Teachers, Pastors, Psychologists, Professional facilitators and all helping-type roles.

Schedules

• Wednesday 10:00-12:00 (Centurion, Pretoria or online)
• Wednesday 18:00-20:00 (online)
• Tuesday evening 18:00 (Constantia Kruin, Roodepoort)

Please note that Constantia Kruin campus is a self-directed campus. While learning outcomes remain the same, they have the right to adapt certain aspects. Students who are local to the West Rand and wish to join the Constantia Kruin campus must contact them directly by emailing Helene de Villiers coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za).

Fees are paid directly to them. In this case do not use the banking details from this page. There is an additional cost that covers additional contact sessions.

Registration forms

Registration for the combined practitioner programme here.
Send proof of registration to registrations-cot@coramdeo.co.za

Registration for supervision only here.
Send proof of registration to registrations-sup@coramdeo.co.za

Registration for CPD only here.
Send proof of registration to registrations-cpd@coramdeo.co.za

Proceed as follows: Decide on whether to do the combined programme, or only one or the other between supervision and CPD. This is important since each has their own registration fee, deposit and reference to use with payment.

Or, pay the general registration fee and decide later. The specific fees and references to use can be found below.

The initiation / registration fee is payable with registration. It is part of a larger non-refundable deposit payable by the end of January.

The remaining tuition fee is divided into the remaining months. An alternative arrangement can be made.

Since the deposit is non-refundable, should the prospective student not continue, the deposit is then regarded as a donation. The person may then request an Article 18A tax deduction certificate from the office.

Donations help us address matters of abuse, relationships, addiction, trauma, and pursuing better outcomes for children/teens in our communities.

The registration fee is part of the full deposit (column 1 and 2). The third column assumes the full deposit is paid (end of January) and then divides the cost of tuition over a 22 month period. The program can be completed in one year but this has no bearing on the registration process and initial amounts.

The last column is our gift to you and only available after successful completion of the program you completed. It means you can stay in the community on a membership basis, and get this. You then have access to all current and new material, all current and future classes, all past recorded videos of multiple years. That is why the combined option is such a ‘big deal’ because it also includes all the CPD events of the last few years, current classes, and future classes.

We highly advise that prospective students attend the first month and then only see if they want to commit to following a one-year track. The monthly fee includes the second-year registration fee. But from year three onwards an annual registration fee is required.

Do the combined programme once. Based on the value it unlocks, it is guaranteed you will not regret it. If you completed our Pastoral Narrative Therapy foundational programme (before the supervision), for a small additional membership fee, it includes those recordings, classes, material revisions of the past almost a decade, attending present and future classes. This literally includes 2000+ hours of material.

Combined programme (Supervision & CPD)

When paying any fees towards this selection use reference COP+Surname+Initials and send to registrations-cot@coramdeo.co.za

Use the following debit order authorisation that will allow us to setup the tuition fee portion. The student specifies the start and end date. The type of debit order we use can be cancelled by either party. Click here. Start date preferably 5 February running for 22 months.

About

Supervision is a process of development for either new practitioners or among professional peers who have been practicing for some time already. Many professional bodies nowadays require ongoing supervision.

The two compulsory aspects of the supervision programme involve a set amount of individual supervision conversations and a certain amount of hours spent with people in your chosen modality (counselling, coaching, leadership other).

Terms

Apart from counsellors and particularly pastoral narrative practitioners, our programme is open to various helping-roles (teachers, managers, leaders, even just being parent but note the following.

The primary reason for why we are able to offer non-discipline specific supervision is that we adopt a social-scientific epistemological framework that makes it possible, i.e., narrative practice. While its roots can be found in narrative therapy as we’ve been training on it for two decades, its application goes far beyond counselling.

The recommended requirement is that the prospective students should have undergone a sufficient amount of prior learning in narrative practice (such as the Coram Deo advanced certificate or recognised other provider). If not then the programme is still open to helping practitioners but with certain terms: As long as they realise that the framework within which our supervisors work is predominantly narrative. Thus we will still be working with stories (your story [professional and otherwise], that of our cultures, or society) but the outcome is not to train you in how to work with stories. Also if you have adopted a strong theoretical inclination (such as we have for narrative) we will not be focusing on other approaches. That being said, together we can invite other supervisors (outside of a narrative approach) for a certain number of your sessions. Speak to us about the possibilities.

You can come from any helping modality but the same applies as above: Though you can come from any helping modality (coaching, counselling, mentoring, psychology) you have to know that the way it will be facilitated will mostly be dealt with from a narrative approach.

Description and value

A practitioner development programme incorporating multiple aspects of our lives (both personal and professional) into a transformative one-year journey. (May be extended in some cases)

• 10 one on one supervision meetings
• 45 hours role required conversations
• Part of a learning community that meet 20-33 times per year
• Recognition by the University of Pretoria
• Facilitated from a narrative perspective
• Allowing for faith based conversations
• A community that speaks to the inherent loneliness of leaders and other professional roles
• Becoming more mindful about what makes you a better and balanced practitioner
• Offers a reflective learning space for challenges practitioners might experience
• Access to the supervision community after the formal programme at a reduced fee in order fulfill requirements that your profession might set for ongoing supervision (or simply aimed at continued practitioner growth).

Fee

See embedded document.

Where

Online and select geographic regions with most students convening in Pretoria.

Who

Practitioners from various disciplines, particularly pastoral and narrative practitioners but also ministers, counsellors, coaches and other helping-practitioners.

CPD

To an extent you can focus your supervision journey on specific themes as complemented by modules from the specific year’s Continued Learning programme.

A related concept in different helping industries is CPD. If supervision is taken together with the Continued Learning programme (that is CPD) we refer to it as the Third Year of studies at Coram Deo.