Faculty of Education
Professional Supervision Conference 2010
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| 2010 Supervision Conference Proceedings |
Conference "Professional Supervision: Common threads, different patterns" 2010
Kia ora and Greetings to all the participants, contributors and supporters of our conference.
The third "Professional Supervision Conference -Common Threads: Different Patterns "held 29th April to 1st May 2010 was a great success thanks to you all.
Approximately 300 delegates attended the pre-conference workshops and the conference in total (varying from 1 day to full 3 day attendance). There were more than 20 professions represented at the conference. Social work was best represented at 125 with psychology (35) nursing (34) Counselling (17) and Occupational Therapy (16) the next largest groups. People attended from the UK, Australia, USA and places in-between to make it a truly international event.
Participant feedback
“Excellent conference”, “an amazing conference”, “Kiwis are such warm hosts!” – These comments signalled the overall satisfaction participants recorded about this event.
The four keynote sessions were all rated highly by participants, with the papers and mini workshops also very well received and the wide range of topics appreciated.
There were lots of favourable comments about the venue, registration process, food, timing and management of people. The availability of books and information display stalls attracted favourable comment.
Many conference participants commented on insights they can take back, confirmation of practice, the networking opportunities in particular with professionals from other occupations and the active involvement of Tangata Whenua.
Thank you for the helpful suggestions for improvement to make the next conference even more user-friendly we will ensure they are passed on to the committee. Thank you also for the many ideas for future conference themes – these too will be given to the next hosts of the Supervision Conference 2012?
Conference presentations:
Some conference power-points and related materials will be put onto the conference website once the authors have sent us a copyright clearance form. You will be able to freely download these resources.
Conference papers:
A formal peer reviewed proceedings will be edited by Liz Beddoe and Allyson Davys and will be published by October. The proceedings will have a small print run, for libraries, but will be available free on a long term basis on the conference website.
