So the 4x4x4 model has three sets of
four elements.
At the center you'll see that there's four stakeholders. And
these are people that need to be held in mind during
a supervision session. So they are
the citizens that we work with the adults and carers and the staff.
It's the supervisor and other colleagues the
organization itself and also partners of
the organization on whether those people are in the room
or not. We need to be conscious of them and particularly we
need to be thinking always about how we involve adults and
carers and hold them at the center of what we do.
Around those four stakeholders. We have the reflective cycle and that
puts critical reflection right at the heart
of our supervision. So whatever element or topic
or a gender item,
we might be discussing in supervision. We need to be trying to
be critically reflective about it
to think about what the experiences and what
the emotions are involved in that experience and
the impact of it and analyzing what that
might mean and then thinking about how we plan and act
And if we hold critical reflection at this that the center of
our supervision then are and decisions and
our outcomes will be much more deliberate and more likely to
be effective.
And then the third set of four elements is the
functions of supervision and they're around the outside of the
model and you'll see there's management learning or
development support and mediation.
And we need to attend all of those functions because that's what
supports good practice and good work. So the
management function attends to the
quality and quantity of work that people are doing the development
function is about how we can continually improve support
function is attending tea or well-being
so that we can practice well and the mediation function
is about the relationship that we have with the
organization and the context and how
that helps us to thrive in our work.