Professional (reflective) supervision provides a protected and confidential space to pause, think, and make sense of the complexity of your Principal role.
Professional supervision
Professional supervision sessions
Sessions offer time to explore your responsibilities, decision-making, interpersonal dynamics, and wellbeing as a school leader, and while it is 1:1, it does not encompass performance evaluation or appraisal, nor therapeutic/clinical support.
Sessions may include (but are not limited to) reflection on current workplace challenges, decisions, or complex scenarios, including consideration of relational, organisational, or ethical tensions; and exploration of how your work may impact your values, capacity, wellbeing, and sense of purpose.
A holistic approach to supervision
Conversations are holistic and integrated, recognising that leadership effectiveness and wellbeing are deeply interconnected. Our work together will draw on:
- Reflective practice and reflexivity, supporting you to examine experiences alongside beliefs, values, emotional responses, and assumptions
- Multi-level, considering impact and alignment at the level of self, leadership team, and whole-school context, including staff, students, and families
- Sense-making, particularly in periods of complexity, change, or uncertainty.
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Supervision that supports you to lead well
Professional supervision provides a confidential space to reflect, build self-awareness and explore the challenges that come with leading in a school environment.
Across sessions, supervision can be tailored to your role and needs, incorporating topics such as wellbeing, healthy ways of working, positive leadership, relationships, communication, and workplace culture.
We Support Your Wellbeing
Occupational wellbeing, including stress management and self-care
Work Well, Lead Well
Well ways of working and leading, informed by integrated workplace mental health models and current national and state WHS codes and regulations
Lead With Purpose
Positive leadership, including aspects of climate and culture, meaning and purpose, relationships, and communication alongside operational demands.
Our psychology services team
Melinda Phillips
Director and Principal PsychologistMelinda is an organisational psychologist, researcher and teacher with over twenty-five years’ experience supporting schools. She has established Compassionate Schools as a mental health workplace consultancy for schools across Australia. Compassionate Schools offers 1:1 support (clinical, supervision, coaching), school workshops for staff mental health, and psych health & safety partnerships.
Breanna Sada
Psychologist & Board Approved SupervisorBreanna is a registered psychologist and board approved supervisor, with over 15 years’ experience working across education, private practice, community mental health and organisational wellbeing. She is currently a mental health program facilitator for the Black Dog Institute, and her recent roles have included Clinical Consultant with headspace Schools and Communities, and Student Wellbeing Education Officer with Sydney Catholic Schools.