ABSTRACT

In the field of health and social care education, it is notoriously difficult to track the effects of complex interventions, especially those that are aimed to bring about attitudinal changes. This chapter gives an account of how we teach the approach, mainly by helping practitioners to learn and apply it through supervising each other while being observed and coaching. It uses the real-life scenarios in the demonstration of supervision or in the small group work. As part of the direct teaching on the first morning of any course, the chapter gives a demonstration of supervision using "Conversations Inviting Change". Most of the time on any course is spent in practising "Conversations Inviting Change" in small supervision groups of four or five people. Each of the small supervision groups on a course is also assigned a member of the teaching team who acts as a coach. In addition to the small group work, the courses also include supervision in larger groups.