Supervision as a space for learning personal freedom, the ability to choose and responsibility

Abstract

This paper presents a supervisory approach based on choice theory. The latter understands human behaviour as the functioning of a closed-loop system according to the principle of intentional, circular causality. It defines a human being as an intrinsically motivated, free and responsible being who always behaves purposefully to meet their needs based on the images they create and collect in their experiential world throughout their life. The purpose of their behaviour is to follow the images they have developed through experiences perceived as good for them. These concrete images are called specific instructions, whose purpose is to establish and maintain internal balance and balance with the environment. In the supervisory process, the supervisor facilitates the conditions for learning and the benefits of understanding human functioning as a closed system. The supervision in itself allows the supervisee to have a first-person experience of understanding the free choice of one's own behaviour and taking responsibility for it.