Creative resources in the training and supervision of education professionals: The experience of the BES team (Barcelona Supervision Space)

Abstract

Education professionals carry out their task with a profound commitment providing both satisfaction and discomfort that need to be addressed. We have training and professional supervision contexts in which reflection and self-awareness, the team and shared learning are promoted. These are spaces that help us to review how we develop at the personal and professional levels in order to make ourselves available to, and to accompany in an honest and healthy way, the training of the people with whom we work. The creative resources deployed in professional training and supervision become devices that favour this objective and that mediate, through symbolic and metaphorical elements, between the trainer/supervisor and the person who is training or participating in the supervision, and, also between the person who learns and the object of learning. They are resources that situate us and that allow professionals and their teams to develop their ability to generate something new.

Keywords: Education professionals, permanent training, professional supervision, creative resources, reflection, self-knowledge.