TODD ROACHE
TRANSFORMATIONAL SESSIONS & RETREATS
WELCOME TO
THE SOULFUL SUPERVISION CIRCLE
A 6-month journey for heart & soul-led practitioners who want to support and deepen themselves, their magic, and their mission
MONTHLY GATHERING:
The dates for our 6-month journey have been sent to you via email. Please mark them in your calendar ahead of time.
ZOOM LINK:
For simplicities sake, we’re going to use the same Zoom link for every call, which will be:
https://mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/3948895860?pwd=Zi9FUjlTcUYxblVqbzRrbndyK0V0QT09
I will pop by several days before each session with a reminder and welcome to the upcoming session, and will include the Zoom link in that email also.
THE FIRST SESSION
For our first session we’ll be spending most of the time warming up and getting to know each other, rather than on a more traditional round of supervision (where everyone brings something to the space for the group to help with).
However, the way we’ll do this - with group reflections along the way as each person shares – creates a rich learning and growing opportunity. In that respect, Super-Vision will still be underway from the get-go as we start to see ourselves and our work in new ways through new eyes.
If there’s any time left we may do some group-supervision in a format some of you may be familiar with. You’ll be invited to bring a topic/challenge/question to the group that you’d appreciate help exploring - letting us know what form you’d like that help to take (incisive questions/ personal experience/ input and ideas/ intuitive sharings /just being witnessed…) and as a group we'll contribute and be in service of that exploration and its takeaways.
There'll be a break included along the way, and we’ll have some time to check out at the end of the session.
All of the above I will expand on and facilitate us through as we go. I just wanted to give you a sense of what’s coming so you can relax (as much as you feel able to) into the journey ahead : )
WHAT CAN I BRING TO SUPERVISION?
Ultimately this is a space to nourish and support you as a practitioner in the world, so anything related to your work and mission as a practitioner - whatever the manifestation of that - is welcome!
I've added a few words below to give you some ideas and examples of the kinds of things you might bring. (If needed we can briefly revisit these and make sure we're all clear.)
PRACTITIONER AS PERSON:
Process and release emotions built up through practice - express and decompress
Work through anything that’s blocking your practitioner flow
Nourish your sense of practitioner fulfillment and happiness. (E.g feeling on-mission, and loving & being fed-by your work).
PRACTITIONER AS PRACTITIONER:
Develop (and celebrate!) your unique practitioner style
Expand your toolkit and theoretical knowledge
Get support with challenging clients and find new ways forward
PRACTITIONER AS INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL:
Maintain professional standards
Tackle ethical 'dilemmas' and develop your ethical maturity
Develop your approach to contracting
PRACTITIONER AS BUSINESS OWNER:
Increasingly models of supervision are expanding to honour the fact that many practitioners are self-employed business owners. Whilst I'm not a business mentor, this can be a space to get feedback, inspiration, and ideas on things like:
Developing and pricing your offerings
Your big practitioner vision in the world
Next steps: Actions & accountability
PRACTITIONER AS MAGICAL BEING:
As advertised, this is a safe space to be 'woo as fuck!', and to relax and lean into the breadth and depth of your Witchy/Magician/Priestess/Goddess/Shamanic/Tantric awesomeness (or whatever is true for you). Whilst you don't have to bring anything of this nature, you're welcome to. Explorations could include:
Sharing and getting to know your magic
How you might develop and nourish it
How to integrate it into your practitioner style/offerings
HOW CAN I BRING IT?
In terms of how you bring whatever you bring to the supervision circle, I invite you to bring it in whatever way feels right to you.
When we bring something perhaps a little more intangible or under the surface, we might not always have the perfect crisp words to encapsulate or point to it. So I invite you to use words - if so you choose - but also there might be times when a picture, object, song, metaphor, or a vague description of a feeling is what is offered into the space for us to then begin to collectively explore.
That’s all welcome (and anything else I haven't thought of as a medium of communication/exploration).
CO-CREATED, COLLABORATIVE, ORGANIC ALCHEMY!
Whilst there may be some conventions of an online group-supervision format, my intention is to not box us into a static pre-determined process. As best I can, I will attune to the needs of your unique group and stay responsive to ways of being and working that best serve your growth, energy, and interests
In that regard, I will be checking in with you throughout our journey for input and feedback, and I invite and encourage you to input as you wish and to take responsibility for your own expression and experience.
Additionally - for diversity of experience and catalytic learning - I will (often spontaneously and intuitively) mix up the way we work every now and then to keep our energy alive and curious.
Ultimately, it's a co-created, collaborative, organic, and alchemical process of coming to life as a group - and going on our unique journey together.
INSPIRATION, REFLECTION & LEARNING
The great opportunity here is that even when you’re not in the hot seat as it were, you’re having the chance to live into being the practitioner you want to be as you contribute to the exploration at hand, AND you can also learn from the conversation.
To help that process, along the way I will give us some short reflective (journalling) breaks where you can consider what in the exploration just completed has inspired or impacted you. What are the learnings for you and your practice?
In that way, every moment in the space is a potential learning and growth moment, it's not about just waiting your turn till you get to bring your thing.
ALL KINDS & LEVELS OF 'WOO' ARE WELCOME...
The warm-hearted invitation from me is that in this space there is no 'right' kind or level of woo, other than the one that's right for you! (and your work/client).
You might have no idea what your magic/mojo is, just the sense that there might be something in there....
Or maybe you're starting to explore your intuition a little more, or some other sense in a gentle early-days way...
Or maybe you're seeing auras and talking to stars and unicorns...
This is a supportive judgment-free zone where all kinds and levels of woo are welcome! And where diversity in that (and all departments) is invited as something that enriches the group and potentially sparks inspiration for others. Hooray!
(Not forgetting this space isn't all about the woo, it just has the room for that if expression or exploration goes that way. At its heart it's a space to be all of you, woo to whatever degree is true for you, but also everything else that you are!).
THIS IS A SPACE FOR...
Love
Presence
Open-mindedness
Community
Spirit
Heart
Magic
Intuition
Discovery
Laughter
Growth
Vulnerability
Compassion
Shadow
Tears
Celebration
Learning
And more...
AN INVITATION FOR YOUR SOUL
Whatever words do or don’t get said, whatever conversations and learnings transpire for you as a person and practitioner, this is also a space for you as a spiritual being. As spirit itself.
It’s a place for your consciousness to expand.
For your presence to light up.
For the clouds to part and for your radiant eternal Self to shine a little brighter.
This is an energetic invitation that will be available to you in the space, for those who resonate with it, and choose to open into it.
Really looking forward to journeying with you : )
Anything else you need or want to express - feel free to email me!
I'm really looking forward to our time together.
Warmest wishes
Todd
