Exploring cross-cultural approaches to reflective practice and professional growth

🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
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Course outline:

This webinar offers a rich exploration of peer supervision through the lens of Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural practice, where Western supervision models meet Māori cultural values and narrative approaches to reflection.

Participants will gain practical insights into how cultural context and collective reflection can strengthen wellbeing, ethics, and accountability across professional settings.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key principles of peer supervision and how it differs from traditional hierarchical supervision
• Apply Proctor’s Three-Function Model (normative, formative, restorative) in a peer-based setting
• Recognise how Māori cultural values enhance supervision through relationship, reflection, and care
• Explore how narrative techniques (externalising and re-authoring) can deepen reflective conversations
• Reflect on how these cross-cultural frameworks can inform and enrich supervision practice in the UK.

Why Attend

As safeguarding, social care, and education systems become increasingly global and diverse, professionals benefit from learning how other countries integrate culture, story, and relationship into professional development.

By attending this webinar, UK practitioners as well as other international professionals will:

• Gain fresh, culturally informed perspectives from New Zealand’s innovative supervision practices
• Enhance cultural understanding and reflective capacity when supporting diverse teams and communities
• Take away new tools and approaches to apply immediately within their own organisational or peer supervision settings
• Join a global dialogue about how supervision can promote wellbeing, ethics, and cultural humility in practice.

Who Should Attend

Ideal for professionals in:

• Safeguarding, child protection, and education
• Health and social care
• Counselling, psychology, and wellbeing services
• Leadership and management roles where reflective supervision supports team practice

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Speakers:

Dr Mariya Ali, Director, SACPA

Mariya Ali is Director of SACPA and an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert. With over two decades’ multidisciplinary experience in legal, academic, advisory, and leadership roles, she is strongly committed to advancing child rights and welfare. Formerly Deputy Minister in the Maldives, she led national reforms in child protection policy and legislation. Internationally, she has worked with UNICEF, Save the Children, and Lumos Foundation on child sexual abuse, exploitation, and systems reform across South Asia and beyond. An academic and practitioner, Mariya has published widely and specialises in trauma-informed, survivor-centred, and systems-based safeguarding approaches.

Michael O’Dempsey