My morning meditation sitting on the deck overlooking the jungled ravine, the aroma of sweet wafting incense and rotting vegetation, the waters gushing down the sides of lichen-covered walls and alongside crooked and broken pathways. Numerous exotic insects screech at each other across the ravine in competition with the distant hum of scooters and cars.…
What an extraordinary year one ‘post pandemic’ it was for my independent social work practice. It was a year of growth for sure being given the opportunity to connect with and work alongside an increasing number of individual practitioners and organisations. It was a year of providing scaffolds and holding safe spaces for people who…
https://anchor.fm/socialworkspotlight In this podcast conversation with Yasmine McKee-Wright, I share my hard-earned wisdom from working in the inter-personal violence response fields of social work, some ideas about policy reform in child protection, ways of doing social justice and why high quality supervision is so important for longevity in this profession.
Today one of my supervisees, herself with 10 years frontline experience, asked me a very interesting question ‘What is the secret of your longevity in the social work profession?’ I think this question is particularly worthy of consideration given current narratives about ‘burn out’ and the requirements of ‘self-care’ being so influential in human service…
https://socialworkstories.com/episodes/ep-56-centering-social-justice-in-social-work-supervision I am honoured to have been interviewed by UOW academic Mim Fox about the social justice framework I hold in my supervision practice that centres ethics and promotes solidarity and community building.
In Episode 27, Social Worker and Podcaster Vittorio Cintio touches on Deanne’s social work career and her preferred approaches to supervision.