Pre-supervision briefs
Walk into supervision with the right page already open.
A one-page brief drawn from the living formulation and recent sessions: case snapshot, trajectory, current focus, and the questions you want to raise, in the order you would say them in the room.
A snapshot of where the work is, rather than a recap of what is already in the diary.
Supervision time is finite and expensive. The brief pulls out what is worth raising, so the first ten minutes of the hour are not spent recounting what happened in the room. Reflective log entries you have marked for supervision are woven in as your own reflections to bring. Pre-supervision briefs are part of the Professional plan.
- 01
Case snapshot
Pseudonymous identifier, approach, session count, and current phase of work, written as the orientation a supervisor needs in three lines.
- 02
Recent trajectory
What has shifted in the last three or four sessions, drawn from the living formulation, including where gains are holding, where they are not, and what you have been working with.
- 03
Current focus
The intervention plan as it stands, including anything live that is either working well enough to consolidate or stalled enough to be worth revisiting in supervision.
- 04
Questions you want to raise
The questions you would ask in any case, written by you rather than generated by Cogent, with the brief carrying them in alongside the snapshot so they do not get lost on the way to supervision.
Briefs use placeholders, so they can be shared with a supervisor without doing the de-identification again yourself.
The brief is built from the placeholder version of the formulation, so your supervisor sees [PERSON_1] rather than a name. Hand it to a peer group or paste it into a written supervision request without de-identifying anything yourself; if real names are ever needed, that disclosure stays your decision, in the conversation.
And a two-minute read before the client arrives.
The same click makes a session prep brief: half the length, drawn from the folder, written to be read five minutes before the session so you walk in oriented rather than leafing through the file. It is a note to yourself, not part of the client's record, and it is on every plan.
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