PRACTICE SUPERVISION
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For social innovators doing transform work
You're brilliant at what you do and you're committed. You navigate complex realities every day. And you’re tired.
You're not alone - 70% of practitioners in social change work are experiencing some form of burnout. For organisations, this shows up as turnover, reduced effectiveness, and talented people leaving the field.
What's missing isn't more training. What's missing is a structured reflective space with someone who understands that your struggles aren't signs of personal failure - they're diagnostic intelligence about how to navigate complexity with embodied confidence.
What you need is an experienced practice supervisor who can provide the strategic partnership that transforms daily struggle into strategic leverage.
YOUR PRACTICE SUPERVISOR
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I see you - I see how you show up every day for work that asks a lot of you.
You know how to facilitate and you understand systems thinking. You care deeply about collective action, centring community wisdom, distributing power and stewarding people and organisations through troubled times.
I bring a rare combination: therapeutic depth (6 years PACFA registered somatic psychotherapist) AND 20 years of lived social innovation experience. I've worked inside government, led state-level reform, and I’m currently practice lead for Victoria's Social Inclusion Action Groups.
Most importantly, I understand the friction points where genuine transformation is born, and I know what it takes to stay strategic and resourced within that.
As your practice supervisor, I offer strategic partnership that transforms your struggles into sustainable capacity for you and your organisation.
Kylie Long
Most support for change makers falls into familiar categories. Coaching focuses on your performance and goals. Peer networks are valuable but less likely to name your blind spots. Therapy addresses your psychological needs but not your practice.
The practice supervision I offer provides something different: strategic partnership that transforms struggle into leverage.
When we work together, I create space where you can slow down when everything feels urgent, recognise power dynamics at play, and explore your edges where practice feels uncertain. We'll critically examine your work to see systemic patterns, not just problems.
Your struggles aren't signs of failure - they contain strategic insight about patterns and opportunities. For example, we may explore how your nervous system responses or sense of overwhelm reflect dynamics that need navigating differently.
This is collaborative work between practitioners. Not expert advice, but dialogue that builds the capacity that becomes the change you're trying to create.
Wherever you are in your practice is exactly the right starting point. You don't need to have it figured out to benefit from supervision - in fact, the times when everything feels most chaotic are often the most generative times for this work.
MY APPROACH
WHO BENEFITS FROM PRACTICE SUPERVISION?
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You might be working in systems change and cross-sector collaboration, community-led innovation, place-based work, social labs, policy reform, institutional change, disaster planning and recovery, collaboration, wellbeing and social inclusion, public sector innovation or other.
The common thread: You're focused on transforming how our systems learn, decide, and act to solve complex, entrenched societal problems.
This is precisely the work that requires structured reflective space to transform struggle into strategic capacity and build sustainable practice.
Community wisdom in action: A practitioner’s guide to place-based decision making
FEEDBACK INVITED
As practice lead for Victoria's Social Inclusion Action Groups, I've been working with the Wellbeing Promotion Office and SIAG Coordinators to develop a comprehensive practice guide for place-based, community led decision-making.
This resource supports practitioners navigating the complex work of genuine community-led change, balancing organisational requirements with community rhythms, building trust across difference while managing deliverables, and centring community wisdom rather than imposing solutions.
Your feedback will help strengthen this resource for practitioners across the field. Please email your response to kyliejlong@gmail.com by 30 March 2026.
READY TO BEGIN?
Supervision sessions are 60 minutes via Zoom, offered as a professional development package and or as individual sessions.
Organisations are increasingly recognising that practice supervision isn't optional support.
Practitioners with structured reflective partnerships show stronger project outcomes, greater capacity for complexity, and more sustainable practice - directly impacting retention, effectiveness, and transformation initiative success.
Organisations can invest in six-session packages as professional development for staff doing social innovation work. Individual practitioners can book directly for ongoing professional development.
I recommend we start with a free 20 mins discovery call to understand your supervision goals, assess fit, and discuss next steps.
"Understanding your own psychology better will make you a more effective facilitator by helping you be sensitive to others, remain centered and not go into shock when you are attacked, and maintain equanimity and provide the group with a sense of safety when the group looks to you for protection in stormy times."
- Arnold Mindell, Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity
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