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Supervision and Ethics
2020: Volume 4: Isseu 2 ■ Sijtze de Roos Trust, it would appear, is no longer self-evident. In the past, so they say, people ‘knew their place’ and more or less blindly trusted and followed the leaders of their particular social group, class or political party. nowadays trust seems to have turned into work. Trustworthiness must be demonstrated by, for example, transparency, authenticity, openness and integrity, all of which need guidance by codes of conduct and action protocols, and documentary proof by audits and visitation reports. But how reliable are organisations if they conveniently park their responsibilities with a special Chief Integrity Officer? Would that not amount to sheer tokenism, as, for instance, the conduct of commercial banking often shows? And how trustworthy are social professionals if they have their moral dilemma’s formally solved for them by referring to the code of conduct of their professional organisation? Morality by ticking off items on a checklist? How about supervisors and coaches? Clearly, in the course of their dealings with supervisees they live their ethical standards, or at least should try their best to do so. Their ethics are not only vested in personal experience, they are also grounded in the profession they share with colleagues and which they together shape in their professional associations. Hence the importance of shared ethics. So it came to be that, in Berlin, on the 22nd of September 2012, the 14th ANSE General Assembly adopted the ANSE Code of Ethics. According to the preamble, it is meant to serve as a guideline against which national organisations could measure their own codes of conduct, ethical guidelines and general moral principles. Its main purpose is to challenge supervisors and their professional associations all over Europe to always act according to moral requirements arising from the nature of supervision. Supervision is a communicative trade. Supervisors will radiate trust in their supervisees, in his or her potential, uniqueness and humanity. As trust implies the recognition of shared humanity, supervisees need to feel accepted, to feel at home with themselves, with others and the world around them, and to be free to be (or become) what they want to be. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that we open the thematic part of this issue with a long read by our Croatian colleagues Maca Cicak and Kristina Urbanc, titled The role of ethics in creating supervision a safe space. Jean-Paul Munsch (Switzerland) goes on to show what is needed to achieve ethical competence by practicing theory. The path to mastery is a never ending learning process, in which theory and practice merge. In other words: ethical conduct presupposes ethical reasoning and ethical reasoning informs ethical practice, as Liisa Raudsepp and Helena Ehrenbusch from Estonia make very clear. They share their experience with the creation of a development process to enhance ethical reasoning among the members of the Estonian national organisation for supervisors (ESCA), on their way showing the importance of institutional guidance and support. What kind of moral challenges may supervisors run into? In our second long read, Dr. Hans Bennink (The Netherlands) analyses how all of us are regularly confronted with d ilemmas due to conflicting moral obligations. In order to help supervisees reflect on these, supervisors need to understand the complexity of loyalty issues and are challenged to find ways to discuss these in a learning manner. But what to do when supervisees themselves display an ethos that is totally contrary to the moral foundation of supervision? In his captivating article’, Dr. Daniel Trepsdorf (Germany) explores ways to confront ‘the language of hate’ by empowering, democratic and non-violent means. Christof Arn (Switzerland) moves on with an overview of thousands of years of ethical deliberation relevant to present day consultancy, and Attila Szarka (Hungary) presents us with a literary account of the moral effects of clothing. What should a supervisor wear? It is not as easy as it sounds. We complete this issue with The use of creative techniques in supervision by Ineke Riezebos (The Netherlands), which may serve as the starting point of a regular column on this topic. We are working on that. Ideas are very welcome. Finally, Ulrike Mathias Wiedemann (Germany) reviews the (very) critical study Supervision auf dem Prüfstand for us. She presents an overview of research outcomes which the community of supervisors is well advised to take proper notice of. Are we really as effective as we think? Reality testing is the groundwork of reflection. And last but not least (but at the same time first of all), Gerian Dijkhuizen (The Netherlands) tops all this off with her regular column - right after this page - and her interview with our Spanish colleague Ioseba Guillermo. This interview is one in a long string which Gerian published in both the Dutch LVSC Newsletter and partly in our journal. They are now collected in a magazine that LVSC will make available free of charge to the visitors of the ANSE Summer University, next year in Riga (Latvia), and those of the 40th Anniversary Conference of the LVSC of 6 April 2021 in the Netherlands. For particulars and registration, please check the ANSE website and/or the website of your national organisation. I hardly have to say that - due to corona (and some other worries) - we now live through barren times. That should, however, not deter us from enjoying our trade and the possibilities of professional exchange this journal offers. The topic of our next issue is ‘digitalisation and supervision’, which is, I think, a very timely theme. Please show us the (digital) loopholes you found to keep communicating, and let us have your visions and experiences. Let me finish wishing you this: however sober, do enjoy Christmas and have a happy new year. Let peace prevail.■
GratisReflection and reflective learning for editors
2020: Volume 4: Isseu 1 ■ Agnes Turner & Reijer Jan van ’t Hul We are really proud to present ANSE Journal Volume 4 – 2020 – Issue 1 with the title “Reflection and reflective learning”. As we all know, reflection is one of the core competences in supervision. Without reflection, there wouldn’t be a learning process. And so, it is in our editorial board. While we were finishing the latest issue of the journal last October, we discovered that editing and organizing a journal with quality and content is quite a heavy job. It is not only collecting and harvesting articles, but there is a lot more to do, like organizing the articles to a consistent and readable magazine. Many/Some of the national editors carry together with us this task. But we were also trying to find more editors, in which we didn’t succeed. So, we reflected, learnt and decided that we had to change something in the editorial board. We needed somebody with editorial experience, who knows the ANSE Community inside out. And although we didn’t know if we could ask him, we both had the same name in our minds: Sijtze de Roos. To us Sijtze would be the perfect Chief-editor to comment on articles, who is able to write in proper English and has a big network in and knowledge of the Supervision and Coaching community. We decided to take a chance and asked him. To our great honor, Sijtze responded positive and since January 2020 he is our Chief-editor for the next two years. And that was just the start of the development process. In the next months our aim is to build an editorial board with up to 6 or 7 editors, to reformulate our editorial guidelines and work out the themes for the next issues of the ANSE Journal. The current situation with the Corona-virus also made us reflect and forced us to be creative. The adaptation of new ways of online working opened new possibilities for videoconferencing and organizing editorial board-meetings. Six months ago, we would have been hesitant to organize this online, but after two months of lockdown, everybody is so used to online meetings, that it is not a threshold anymore. Although crisis and hurdles are not comfortable, they definitely provide a possibility for in-depth reflection and reflective learning. And there are more than one ways of reflection. This issue will teach us how multidimensional reflective processes and learning in Supervision and Coaching are. Particularly, the different theoretical and methodological as well as practical approaches of reflection and reflective learning strengthen the dialogue in our Supervision and Coaching community and therefore enriches our profession. Enjoy reading this ANSE Journal while having some nice reflective moments. ■
GratisBridging, connecting worlds through supervision and coaching
2019: Volume 3: Isseu 2 ■ Agnes Turner & Reijer Jan van ’t Hul …. was this year’s theme of ANSE Summer University in Bolzano Italy from 25th until 29th of August. It was a relevant and up to date theme, as we find ourselves more confronted with tension of separation and polarization in our society. Because we as supervisors are confronted in our work with clients, it is why it is important to discuss these topics here in the context of Supervision. – whether on a personal, ethical or political level in national organisations. ANSE builds bridges between the supervisors and coaches in Europe between the countries and national organisations, between different approaches of supervision, methods, tradition and wants to connect while always keeping the most possible diversity. It’s not about that we all do and think the same, it’s much more about the bridging between different landscapes and idea and again it’s is about the question – what happens on the bridge and where do we go. Supervision and coaching can be the vehicle for understanding, learning, development, change management and so on. It was a successful week with over 120 participants from 15 countries. During the week there were 7 keynotes, 17 workshops and 3 ANSE-platform presentations, study groups and social events. This ANSE Journal is dedicated to the Summer University and therefore it is titled “Bridging, connecting worlds through supervision and coaching”. We asked all keynote speakers and workshop leaders to share their presentation, outcome or summary of the workshops. We are very proud to present 15 articles of the Summer University 2019. This ANSE Journal represents the diversity in our community, it shows a range of theoretical and practical articles. We tried to use the possibilities of a digital Journal, by placing hyperlinks to YouTube movies, or slides of the PowerPoint presentations. The first four articles are written by the keynote speakers, Wolfgang Looss and Sara Niese, Marjaana Gunkel, Silvia Sacchetti and an interview with Brigitte Geissler-Piltz and Karin Herrmann. After these articles, the summaries of the workshop leaders are presented in random order. Of course, there is the column of Gerian Dijkhuizen and one of the interviews she did for the LVSC in this ANSE Journal. This time an interview with Ruslan Goshovskyi from Ukraine, the president of the Ukrainian Association, full ANSE member since last year. We are very happy with the beautiful pictures of Gabriel Scherer (Instagram @getaoutandcapture). Gabriel has a talent for capturing the atmosphere of the week. Every morning during Summer University he presented his pictures of the day before. A selection of 250 of his pictures can be found at the ANSE website. The cover of this Journal has been designed by Waldemar Kerschbaumer, www.adpassion.it/de/ He turned the logo of the Summer University into the ANSE colors. In that way we made the circle round for this ANSE Journal. Special thanks go to Gerian Dijkhuizen, because she started video-blogging for the LVSC during Summer University. Every day she interviewed participants and we posted them on our Facebook. This gave a very lively view on what was happening in Bolzano. For everyone who missed it, the interviews are still available. We hope you enjoy reading this ANSE Journal and get back into the good vibes of ANSE community during a Summer University. ■
GratisEducation of supervision and coaching, an interesting matter
2019: Volume 3: Isseu 1 ■ Agnes Turner & Reijer Jan van ’t Hul After the ANSE board was elected during the General Assembly in Budapest in October 2018, we had to divide tasks into our portfolio. We took a whole day in January to do this and Agnes put her name immediately at this task but Reijer Jan didn’t feel any challenge to write or to publish articles. Reijer Jan checked what tasks he really would like to do, but also posted his name to tasks with not so many names on it. And now one of his main tasks is the ANSE-journal. In this case it is the same as it is with education, you have to step out of your comfort zone, to learn something, and that is what Reijer Jan did and we decided to work for ANSE journal in a team and continue this successfully! In the first place we want to thank Barbara Baumann for all the efforts that she made, starting the ANSE-journal from scratch and now there is a group of national editors, a nice-looking Journal and the goal to publish ANSE-journal twice a year. Also, the topics for the next four editions are set, so it was not that hard to take over this task until now. Barbara, you put the standards high and we will do what we can do to keep this Journal alive, thank you very much. Within the last General Assembly of ANSE the topics quality and education were on the top of the list. Delegates and presidents for the member countries stated that these are all over Europe main issues within the national organization. The contains revising quality standards in educational programs for Supervision and Coaching but also learning about and implementing new and broader approaches of supervisory skills and competences in educational programs and lifelong learning settings such as intervision groups or conference. Talking about conference, in line with the topic education the first conference on Teaching Supervision and Coaching took place in Frankfurt in November 2018. In this edition of the ANSE-journal you can find an article about reflection on the first ANSE conference about Teaching Supervision and Coaching written by Ineke Riezebos. It was an inspiring conference and we set the goal to organize a conference again in spring 2022. The other articles are from Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and this provides a nice map of how supervision and coaching is taught in Europe. We get a great overview on the differences and the similarities in the programs throughout Europe and the diversity is also visible in the different points of view, from supervision, coaching, intervision and meta-supervision. Great thanks go again to Gerian Dijkhuizen for writing the ANSE column – this time about the practices of lifelong learning. Behalf of the ANSE board and all national editors we wish you a joyful and fruitful time reading the journal. ■
GratisPolitics and social responsibility: effect and influence in and through supervision / coaching
2018: Volume 2: Isseu 1 ■ Barbara Baumann This is the topic of the 2nd ANSE Journal. After the first topic “Quality”, to immediately draw attention to the political and social responsibility of supervision - too detached? We think and hope that the articles in this issue will stimulate reflection on one’s own attitude to the subject, collegial exchange and discussion in many places with different people. “Talking is working on the meaning of situations; understanding is grasping a situation in its meaning.” This aphorism by the philosopher Hermann Schmitz was certainly not coined with a view to supervision and coaching and yet he describes in a focused way what happens in the supervisory process. The issues, cases, questions and concerns that supervisors bring forward are given meaning through speach and the supervisory process is about understanding and grasping their significance. This significance does not only refer to the person of the supervisee, but also to the professional role, the organisation in which she or he works and not infrequently the social significance also becomes visible. And vice versa. Social and political developments influence organisations and the people who work there. To keep an eye on these interactions, to understand them in their dynamics and to develop constructive possibilities for action and behaviour is always the task and goal of supervisory processes. Therefore, supervisors are repeatedly called upon to deal with political and social changes. Economization, digitalization, globalization, migration - just four keywords that currently shape many socio-political discourses that have a massive influence on the world of labor and on people. These are also topics supervisors have to deal with reflexively, on which they have to develop an attitude. It is not coincidental that the first two articles in this issue are lectures. Jubilees, celebrations, conferences are always occasions to ascertain fundamental attitudes. Both Sijtze de Roos’ speech on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Croatian Supervision Association and Monique Castillo’s lecture, which was written on the occasion of an anniversary in Mexico but was also held once again this year at a conference of the French Supervision Association, address fundamental questions of orientation and attitude. The health sector today is certainly an area of many changes, which reflect social and socio-political change processes and in which political and social responsibility must be discussed and assumed. The article by Kristel Kotkas underlines the importance of supervision in this area, taking Estonia as an example. But how do individual supervisors position themselves on the topic of this issue? The interview conducted by Ineke Riezebos with Seyda Buurman Kutsal gives an example and the questions of the interview can be understood as a model to interview oneself and collegially discuss political and social responsibility and to enter into a collegial dialogue. The aim of the ANSE Journal is to make the diversity and significance of supervision in Europe visible. For this reason, we have added a new category to the journal. In each issue we now want to introduce a supervisor from somewhere in Europe. Gerian Dijkhuizen introduces a German colleague, Per Wolfrum from Berlin. Both worked together for a long time in an ANSE International Intervision Group. We hope that this second issue of the ANSE Journal will give readers a lot of pleasure, reading and discussing with colleagues, supervisors, clients and other in many different places. ■
GratisThe online ANSE Journal of Supervision and Coaching: Introduction to the pilot
2017: Volume 1: Isseu 1 One of the major objectives of ANSE is to promote and, wherever possible, facilitate cross border contacts. Actually, it is our core business, because, quite like in supervision or coaching, communication is the alpha and omega of the ANSE community. It is, so to speak, our natural habitat. ■ Sijtze de Roos Central to our mission is – to quote from our Policy Plan – ‘the cross border exchange of information on professional developments between our National Organisations, training institutes and sister organisations, as well as the cross border exchange of professional knowledge and experience between practitioners.’ Obviously, communication and exchange are prerequisite to freely share information on supervision, coaching and consultancy, and – not to forget – to the (further) development and implementation of (European) quality standards. There is so much to share! In all our countries, there is a wealth of experience and theoretical reflection. But most of it never crosses the borders of the country - or at best the language area - of its origin. For sure, live experience may be exchanged in ANSE International Intervision Groups, during conferences and at Summer Universities. True; ‘ANSE English’ in the meantime serves as our lingua franca during our live meetings. But theories, books, articles, master theses or scientific research findings are quite another matter. We still have to overcome a big language gap on paper or smart screen. Too much of this richness is inaccessible to too many of our colleagues. Latvian colleagues, for example, have no access to studies published in Hungary and the other way round, and German supervision scholars hardly ever see, let alone understand, Dutch publications and vice versa. This unfortunate state of reciprocal linguistic exclusion goes all the way from Romania to Finland. But it does not need to be like that. And that is exactly why we hereby launch the first issue of the ANSE Journal, which I am happy to present to you on behalf of the ANSE Board. This one is a pilot, but there surely will follow more. We are planning to publish two issues each year. I am very grateful for the work that board member Barbara Baumann over the last two years put into this, to Eric Vullers of Kloosterhof Publications who made it all possible, and of course to the authors and national editors. Let’s go on this way, and make our often hidden wealth accessible to all of us. ■
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