{"id":1518,"date":"2024-01-25T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/manicpagandreamgrrl\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:18:11","slug":"the-importance-of-spiritual-supervision-and-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/manicpagandreamgrrl\/2024\/01\/the-importance-of-spiritual-supervision-and-mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of spiritual supervision and mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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When you join a spiritual path as part of a group, you join a network of people who support each other. You\u2019re learning together, asking questions together. You\u2019re part of a community.<\/p>\n

When that path involves magic and spellcraft, much of that magic may be completed as part of the group. Where it is separate, a member may choose to discuss with the group before they proceed.<\/p>\n

But what happens when you learnt your spirituality as a solo practitioner?<\/strong><\/h4>\n Or even from books and online resources?<\/p>\n Whilst I see enormous value in face to face learning, particularly when it comes to energy and invocation, the reality is this just isn\u2019t available to everyone for lots of reasons.<\/p>\n When your spiritual practise is just you, this isn\u2019t an issue, but what happens when you want to do magic for others, or when you turn your divination or healing skills into a business?<\/p>\n And even when you do start out in a group setting, do things change when you make your spiritual work your profession?<\/strong><\/h4>\n This was a question I had to ask myself when Kay Gillard<\/a>, a healer with decades of professional experience asked, \u201cbut who supports us?\u201d<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t have an answer.<\/p>\n As a hypnotherapist, I have a supervisor and a peer support group. Whilst a trainee counsellor, supervision is compulsory.<\/p>\n As a witch, and teacher of witches, there\u2019s no formal supervision process. My work is just as confidential, it\u2019s just as emotionally challenging at times, and my skills can still become outdated and rusty if I don\u2019t keep learning and training.<\/p>\n I\u2019m used to mentoring people who are new to their paths<\/strong><\/h4>\n****** ** Or even taking on a new stage, like just beginning to run a group.<\/p>\n ** But experienced practitioners need help and support too. There will never be a point where I think I know so much no one else can help me or offer advice.<\/p>\n ** When you work with individuals in a spiritual way, shouldn\u2019t the same confidentiality expectations be in place as when you work with clients in any other way?<\/p>\n ** So who do we go to, as spiritual practitioners?<\/p>\n ** As teachers and workshop facilitators?<\/p>\n ** As healers?<\/p>\n ** Or Tarot readers?<\/p>\n ** Who can we talk to in a confidential way about our work?<\/strong><\/h4>\n ** For me, Kay\u2019s question turned into a wonderful opportunity to be part of a supervision group for spiritual practitioners.<\/p>\n ** It\u2019s run in a really similar way to my hypnotherapy peer support group and has been invaluable to me within the part of my work which before then didn\u2019t have a support system attached to it.<\/p>\n ** It\u2019s a place where we can consider ethical dilemmas, where we can understand the limits of our own skills and have access to those who compliment us in those areas.<\/p>\n ** My confidence in asking for feedback on my work has improved knowing I have a group of people who can support me to understand that feedback and process any emotions that come up from it. (And as someone who can find both good and bad feedback difficult to deal with that\u2019s a huge benefit for me and means I\u2019ve grown my testimonials page!)<\/p>\n ** Before I started working in the psychology professions I would never have considered the need for supervision within my spiritual work<\/strong><\/h4>\n ** But it\u2019s not just for beginners or those starting a new path. Support from peers as a solo spiritual business owner or practitioner can be so beneficial.<\/p>\n ** Having a group I can turn to has made my work more efficient.<\/p>\n ** If you work in a spiritual capacity, have you ever thought about where you go for support? And where those you turn to for spiritual guidance go to for their support?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ** ******When you join a spiritual path as part of a group, you join a network of people who support each other. You\u2019re learning together, asking questions together. 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