Main description:

Embodied Approaches to Supervision presents innovative approaches to working with the body in supervision.

The authors, who are all experts in their field, bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to each chapter, raising the reader's awareness of the value of working with the body in the supervisory relationship. With the help of case vignettes, the book offers reflections on the intimate and dynamic interaction between mind and body and how to work with this in supervision. It presents diverse approaches to practice, where the body is at the centre of facilitating reflection and containment of supervisees, either in one-to-one or group contexts, in person and online. Readers gain insight about how embodiment is attended to within as well as outside of the session in the context of self-supervision.

This text will be of value to supervisors and supervisors-in-training, practitioners seeking supervision and anyone keen to learn more about embodied approaches in supervision.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION, Celine Butte & Tasha Colbert; 1. Perspective-Taking in Creative Supervision, ANNA CHESNER; 2. The Dialogical Dance: A relational embodied approach to supervision, YEVA FELDMAN; 3. Multimodal and Liminal Perspectives (MLP): The role of liminality in the dynamic of the supervisory relationship, BRYN JONES; 4. Eco Supervision: Embodied, Embedded, Emergence in Supervision, THERESE O'DRISCOLL; 5. The 'Four Chair Method': An integrative approach to creative supervision, HANNAH SHERBERSKY & MARTIN GILL; 6. Mirroring Within Supervision, JULIE JOSEPH; 7. Reflections on Thresholds and Containers in Supervision, CELINE BUTTE; 8. Supervision Beyond Supervision: widening and nourishing embodied reflexivity as part of self-supervision, ROZ CARROLL; 9. Holding Sacred: The Woman's Body in Supervision, ANNETTE SCHWALBE, SUE CURTIS & CHRISTINA GREENLAND; 10. Supervision or Co-vision? Co-activating a receptive and responsive container for reflection and restoration, KATY DYMOKE