Collective wisdom for reflexive practice
Reading what you're bringing…
Selecting your perspectives…
Reading what you're bringing…
Selecting your perspectives…
Pause for a moment. What are you feeling in your body in relation to this situation?
What is the question you have been hoping not to be asked about this?
A live group supervision session in five phases, totalling thirty minutes. The app does not use AI in this mode. It supports the human conversation by holding the structure, the timing, and the lenses.
Supervisee — the coach bringing a case.
Supervisor and Timekeeper — facilitates and holds time.
Observers — each holds one animal lens and listens through it.
1. Set-up and contracting · 3 min
2. Live supervision conversation · 10 min
3. Animal perspectives · 10 min
4. Supervisee reflection · 5 min
5. Closing reflection · 2 min
Each person picks their own role on their own device. Nothing is shared between devices.
While the supervisor sets the contract, take a moment to write down your supervision issue clearly and concisely. This is for your own reference — no one else will see it.
Present your case to the supervisor. The observers will listen silently through their assigned lenses.
(Nothing written yet — return to Phase 1 if you wish to capture it.)
Each observer will offer their lens questions. Listen, and respond as you wish. Capture anything that lands.
Reflect aloud on what has emerged. The supervisor may offer prompts.
Prompts you may hear: What perspective landed most for you? · What has shifted in how you see this? · What is becoming clearer about what you want to do next?
Offer a brief closing reflection. Name one thing you are taking away.
The supervisee presents their case. Observers listen in silence and notice what arises through their assigned lens. Hold the space.
Each observer offers their lens questions. Pace the contributions, hold space for the supervisee to respond, and notice what is emerging across the perspectives.
The supervisee reflects aloud. Observers and you listen without interjecting.
Invite each member to offer a brief closing reflection. Invite the supervisee to name one thing they are taking away.
The supervisor may allocate a lens to you, or invite you to choose one. Pick the lens you will hold for this session.
Listen silently. Use your lens to notice what arises. Capture the questions you want to ask in Phase 3.
(Nothing captured yet — return to Phase 2 if you wish to add questions.)
When invited by the supervisor, offer your questions to the supervisee. Listen to their response. Add any further questions that emerge.
Listen without interjecting. Notice what has shifted, what the supervisee is seeing now, and what your lens caught that others did not.
Offer a brief closing reflection. One thing you noticed, or one thing you take from this session.
Each animal is a lens — a distinct way of attending to the work. Together they hold the four supervisory domains: formative, normative, restorative, and generative. They are used in all three modes.
These perspectives were originally inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, reimagined for coaching supervision practice.
The Supervision Council uses twelve animal perspectives, each representing a distinct supervisory lens, to help coaches think more broadly about their cases and practice. It has three functional modes: Supervision Prep (preparing for a human supervision session), Self-Supervision (structured reflective practice between sessions), and Group Supervision (supporting a live group supervision session). In the two AI-powered modes, the app reads what you have written and selects the most relevant lenses, generating coaching questions tailored to your specific situation.
A structured reflective space between supervision sessions. Multiple perspectives on a single situation. Coaching questions that may surface what has not yet been examined. A preparation tool that helps you arrive at human supervision more focused and articulate.
The app is not supervision. It cannot replicate the relational, parallel process, or accountability dimensions of human supervision.
It has no memory between sessions and cannot track themes or development over time.
It cannot replace the professional judgment of a qualified supervisor.
It should not be used as a substitute for human supervision, particularly where ethical concerns, safeguarding issues, or significant professional risk are present.
The twelve animal perspectives were originally inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, reimagined for coaching supervision practice.
Content submitted to the app is processed by an external AI language model. Please do not include identifying information about your clients. Sessions are not stored — the app holds nothing between visits.
If your situation involves a safeguarding concern, risk of serious harm, suicidal ideation, or a significant ethical dilemma, please seek human supervision or appropriate professional support directly. The app will flag language of this kind, but the responsibility to act sits with you.