ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how to apply a narrative-based approach to supervising other professionals, whether they are peers or learners. Narrative-based supervision has a ready-made methodology, since the ideas of curiosity, complexity and so forth, and techniques such as hypothesising and questioning, can be applied in supervising other professionals just as they can in conversations with clients. Within health and social care, opportunities for supervision vary greatly according to the particular traditions and requirements of each discipline. In some professions, such as counselling, it occurs as part of routine professional work. The boundaries between supervision and other activities such as coaching and mentoring are sometimes unclear, but definitions are probably less important than understanding the context and purpose of any encounter. The chapter discusses key principles useful in teaching and applying narrative-based supervision. It illustrates examples that are taken from practitioners who have applied a narrative-based approach when supervising others.
