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This Self-Based Supervision (SBS) model developed out of experience, and operates from a framework of nature and systems theory where language is a process of coordination among humans as living systems. With this specific understanding of language, supervision as conversation is the mode for experimentation with change. The model is presented conceptually and then described with examples of supervisees at different stages of supervision. Rather than being prescriptive, the author offers the model primarily as a stimulus for the further development of systems thinking and supervision. The article concludes that the systemic changes that occur in this supervision can extend to affect larger social systems as supervisees operate on principle and function as leaders.
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Schur, T.J. Supervision as a Disciplined Focus on Self and Not the Other: A Different Systems Model. Contemporary Family Therapy 24, 399–422 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019874114316
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