Beyond Empathy: Wisdom & Compassion in Clinical Supervision
Hours: 1.5
Course Access: 1 year
This session explores wisdom and compassion as essential skills in clinical practice.
Dr. Estera Boldut guides us through:
- Reflective practice and self-awareness are important for therapists.
- Wisdom involves cognitive, emotional, and perspective-taking skills.
- Compassion and wisdom together can strengthen therapeutic relationships and outcomes.
Recorded live, this session offers practical insights for more thoughtful and effective clinical work.
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$90.00
Course Content
About the Session
Using interactive dialogue, case-based reflection, and experiential exercises, attendees will learn practical strategies for developing these capacities in themselves and their supervisees. Topics will include the role of intellectual humility, emotional regulation, perspective-taking, and ethical decision-making in fostering wise and compassionate practice. Participants will leave with concrete tools to embed wisdom and compassion cultivation in their professional practice, supervision, and personal growth.Â
Learning Objectives:Â
- The participants will learn the components of clinical wisdom and their relevance to therapeutic practice. Â
- Identify the limitations of empathy in clinical practice and learn strategies for cultivating compassion without over-identification or burnout.Â
- Apply reflective and experiential techniques to foster wisdom and compassion in clinical supervision and therapy.Â
Target Audience:
 Mental health professionals, clinical supervisors, educators, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and students seeking to deepen their reflective practice and enhance therapeutic effectiveness through wisdom and compassion development.Â
Presentation Format:
- Practical takeaway tools for supervision and therapy
- 90-minute interactive workshop
- including: Didactic presentation with theoretical grounding
- Case-based discussion and audience reflection
- Experiential exercisesÂ
Live Event Recording:
Filmed live at an in-person event, this workshop also includes an engaging Q&A session with participants and presenters.
About Dr. Estera Boldut
Estera is the Program Director of the Master of Christian Studies in Marriage and Family Therapy. She joined the Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy Program as the Clinical Coordinator in 2015 and is also a registered social worker. Before she joined Trinity Western University, she worked with adoptions in orphanages in Romania.
As a Registered Clinical Counselor and a Marriage and Family Therapist, Estera specialized in working with couples and families (adoption, disability, chronic illness). She is doing consulting work with different agencies, training staff and managers.
She holds a small private practice seeing clients, offering supervision to individuals and groups. She co-teaches a Fundamentals in Clinical Supervision course, training the new generation of clinical supervisors.