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Neuroscience Of Supervision And Learning: Feedback, Threat Responses, Shame, And Skill Acquisition
Short Description
An exploration of how neuroscience knowledge can be used to enhance supervision, focusing on how feedback can trigger threat and shame and how supervisors can structure learning for safety, growth, and accountability. Appropriate for field instructors, clinical supervisors, and leaders.
Learning Objectives
• Identify how threat responses and shame can interfere with learning and clinical risk-taking.
• Use feedback structures that increase psychological safety while reducing defensiveness.
• Design a simple skill-acquisition plan (modeling, practice, reflection, repetition) for a supervisee’s goal.
Each topic can be adapted to your audience, timeframe, and delivery format, with a minimum of 1 hour of instruction. The summary on this page is intentionally brief; detailed descriptions, learning objectives, and sample agendas are available upon request.