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April 26, 2007

Supervision agreement

When someone contacts me about meeting for supervision of their spiritual-direction practice, I like to have a conversation about what I offer as a supervisor, what the person is expecting and hoping for from supervision, and how the logistics of a supervision relationship would work for us. It’s a chance for both of us to get a sense of each other and whether we are a good match. After this, we both take time to think and pray about whether we’d like to start meeting regularly. People sometimes interview multiple supervisors before they decide, which is great.

If the person and I both feel that we’d like to move forward, I ask them to read and sign a boilerplate agreement that covers some general ground: what services I can and can’t provide, our agreed-to rate for payment, my commitment to confidentiality, and the limits that I must put on confidentiality in exceptional cases.

I use a similar process in my work as a spiritual director.

Here are the PDF versions of the agreement forms that I use in my supervision and spiritual direction relationships: