Ara Taiohi

I believe my strengths are as a supervisor • Enhancing individual's mana • Support a supervisee to reflect on their practice • Improve practice • Collaborative relationship based on trust, openness and confidentiality • Explore and reflect on work issues and the impact these have on them both professionally and personally • Support a supervisee to explore their thoughts, feelings, and actions • Exploring models of practice, they apply and why • Challenging their thought processes • Homework tasks • Problem-solving • Understanding the supervisee’s worldview and how it has shaped them • Listening • Empathy As a social worker providing supervision, applying workplace values and following the best practices of the code of ethics entails operating with honesty, safety, competence, and expertise. Applying theories and models of practice to inform my work.