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The intent for this phase is to clear, free up and/or make way or dislodge the space from what people are bringing with them that may inhibit moving to clarity in this supervision session.
Clearing the space for the session
The whakatau phase of karakia/whakatauākī/whakataukī has opened that door and now the whakawātea process is about 'letting go' to enable both participants to move from their previous space into the supervision space. Incantation, mindfulness, karakia and whakataukī are used to clear, to free up and/or to make way or dislodge. Having karakia before proceeding with the other phases of supervision is significant because it helps to break away from the worldly daily grind and marks the passage into the sharing of personal matters and exploring better ways to navigate in the workspace as indigenous and bicultural practitioners.
This whakawātea practice prioritises space and time to ground oneself in the session freed from anything preoccupying. It would allow the kaitiaki to share their current state with the kaiārahi (a feeling, issue, attitude, event, success or other) that is distracting their ability to fully engage in the session or in practice in general (sometimes it is offloading). Opening space for current states to be released opens a healing pathway to begin to address and restore tapu and mana. Consider how whakawātea is kept alive through ongoing support and revisiting when needed.
Prompts: skills, knowledge and behaviours
My behaviours, attitudes and skills are aligned to my connection with significant sites of engagement in Te Taiao and values and beliefs.
I engage in active sharing about my life: work life, whānau, hapū, and iwiwhakapapa, and historical whānau pūkorero.
I share successful or difficult moments that surround my experiences of 'supervision', and what I want to bring forward into this supervisory relationship.
I can share what oranga looks like for me, and how supervision can best be used to promote whānau ora, kaimahi ora and mahi ora.
Supervision prompts
Based on ko wai au, what are my preferences for entering into the engagement – that is, karakia, whakataukī or other way?
How do I promote a sharing within the whakawātea process?
How do I connect whakawātea to the kaupapa – that is, a chosen whakataukī or karakia having particular meaning to the following kaupapa discussed?
How do I work with the energy that sits in this space that needs to be settled? How do I take my own breath? How do we take the breath together?
Do I like to vent first before moving into the supervision space? Have I communicated this to the kaiārahi?
How do I make a personal connection with my kaiārahi that continues to build over time?
My behaviours, attitudes and skills are aligned to my connection with significant sites of engagement in Te Taiao and values and beliefs.
I engage in active sharing about their/my life: work life, whānau, hapū, and iwiwhakapapa, and historical whānau pūkorero.
I share my successful or difficult moments that surround my experiences of 'supervision' and what I want to bring forward into this supervisory relationship.
I can facilitate the kaitiaki in expression of their ko wai au, what oranga looks like for them, and how supervision can best be used to promote whānau ora, kaimahi ora and mahi ora.
Supervision prompts
How do I promote a sharing within the whakawātea process?
How do I connect whakawātea to the kaupapa – that is, a chosen whakataukī or karakia having particular meaning to the following kaupapa discussed?
How do I work with the energy that sits in this space that needs to be settled? How do I take my own breath? How do I support us to take the breath together?
Does the kaitiaki like to vent first before moving into the supervision space? What does venting look, feel and sound like for this kaitiaki?
How do I make a personal connection with the kaitiaki that continues to build over time?
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