Choose one moment you want to understand better. Use fictional details or follow your organization’s approved de-identification and record-handling procedures. Keep this page free of identifying information.
How to use this page
Complete the three areas, then decide what can wait for routine supervision and what needs earlier consultation. You can bring uncertainty without having a complete explanation.
Describe the moment
State what you directly observed, including your own action where relevant. Avoid diagnostic or character labels as substitutes for description. If information is secondhand or incomplete, say so. Include what went reasonably well as well as what concerned you.
Notice your interpretation
Name what you thought the moment meant and how you felt. Consider another possible account. Ask how power, culture, disability, language, trauma, service demands, or your own expectations might shape the interaction. Do not force a cultural explanation that the person has not offered.
Ask for a concrete learning task
Choose whether you need observation, modeling, rehearsal, ethical clarification, or a source to review. Connect the request to client welfare and your competence. If there is an urgent concern, use the established escalation route rather than keeping it on a future agenda.
Reflection prompts
Use these questions in conversation, on paper, or in the downloaded PDF. You may adapt or skip a prompt.
- The observable moment and what remains unknown
- My interpretation, reaction, and another possibility to examine
- My focused supervision question and the kind of help I need