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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. ■
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