Online MEMBER Only Connection & Content

Technology in Supervision and Mentoring

Connection and Content is for CA Members only (Recognised Supervisors, Mentors and Supervision Interns) and there is no cost.

Digital technology is fast transforming the way we work and relate to others.  This is particularly apparent in professional relationships like mentoring and supervision.  Things are possible now which we scarcely imagined even a few short years ago.  Many of us value and appreciate what is now possible, especially with AI, but we also sit a little uncomfortably with some of the changes both around organising sessions and what happens within sessions.  To what degree does technology enhance our mentoring or supervision and how is it starting to subtly transform our ways of relating in sub-human ways?

In our Connection and Content session on the 12th, we will explore together the place of technology in supervision and mentoring.  Have a think about your own experiences of the good and not-so-good when it comes to technology and join us for this discussion. 

11am-12:30pm or 7pm-8:30pm, 12 February, 2026

To register email kim.robertson@chaplaincyaustralia.com.

To join CA as a member click here: https://www.chaplaincyaustralia.com/supervision-mentoring-application/.

Presented by Tim Dyer

Tim Dyer is a trainer of pastors, church consultants, mentors and Christian leaders.  He works across many mainline denominations and focuses on the care, development and support of clergy and the health of congregations.

Tim is a regular speaker at Pastors’ and Clergy Conferences in areas of leadership, church systems, professional ethics, self care, mentoring, conflict management, staff and team dynamics and the impact of clergy sexual abuse. He contributes to in-service training programs for clergy and leaders across many denominations and states.

Besides mentoring pastors and leaders himself, Tim trains Christian leaders in the skills required to equip others to become leaders through intentional one to one mentoring.  Tim has redeveloped the Mentor Equipping 3 year training course.  He works with other trainers in Australia to provide this course to leaders seeking to be equipped as mentors.   It is now offered as a graduate program through the Australian College of Theology.

Tim has an interest in healthy congregational and parish life and consults with churches and denominations on processes which create and support parish health.  He trains and supervises denominational church consultancy teams which work with program evaluation, church governance, vision and direction, pastoral transitions, staff team reviews and in times of conflict.  Tim has both church health and church conflict consultancy teams operational within a variety of denominations in Australia. 

Tim trains consultants nationally to work with congregations in crisis as a result of conflict or sexual misconduct in leadership. He has a particular interest in developing healthy recovery processes for whole congregational systems.

Tim also equips facilitators for Pastors Renewal Retreats, a clergy support and development program founded by Les Scarborough in the 1990s and now run independently in many denominations around Australia.

Tim trained in psychology at Melbourne and Monash Universities before researching and publishing on Youth Homelessness as a staff worker with Scripture Union Victoria.  He teaches at a graduate level for several theological colleges in Leadership, Team Relationships, Conflict Management, Resilience and Self Care, Trauma and Recovery and the Personal Life of the Minister. 

Tim is married to Merran, a GP with interests in nutritional medicine and women’s health. They have 2 adult sons and two adult daughters. 

Tim is supported in ministry by his home congregation in Sheffield, Tasmania where he serves primarily as a Bible teacher, celebrant and leader.

For relaxation, Tim enjoys bushwalking in the Tasmanian highlands, camping, computers, gardening, reading and music.

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