Embodied Approaches to Supervision: The Listening Body

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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. Cover Half Title Endorsement Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Figures Contributors Foreword Introduction References Chapter 1 Perspective-Taking in Creative Supervision Prologue The Lens Example One: Role Reversal – Stepping Into the Shoes of the Other Commentary Example Two: Concretisation and Multiple Perspectives Example Three: At the Threshold of Lockdown – Facing Change Conclusion References Chapter 2 The Dialogical Dance: A Relational Embodied Approach to Supervision Introduction Supervising Trainees Group Supervision An Embodied Relational Approach Embodiment in Supervision The Dialogical Dance in Supervision Increasing Awareness Through Focus On Felt Sense Embodying Clients Movement Improvisation in Supervision Embodied Relational Supervision Online Concluding Thoughts Acknowledgement References Chapter 3 Multimodal and Liminal Perspectives (MLP): The Role of Liminality in the Dynamic of the Supervisory Relationship Introduction On the Ways of Being a Supervisor and Supervising Multimodality The Rites of Passage The MLP Method Follows a Six-Part Process Further Reflections On the Formulation: The Supervisory Question Concluding Thoughts References Chapter 4 Eco Supervision: Embodied, Embedded, Emergence in Supervision Introduction Eco Supervision – An Emerging Modality The Seven Eyed Model of Supervision Dialogics The Ecological Body Key Identifiers of Eco Supervision Embodied Embedded Emergence Eco Supervision in Practice Case Study Subsequent Reflection Conclusion Acknowledgements Note References Chapter 5 The ‘Four Chair Method’: An Integrative Approach to Creative Supervision Introduction Systemic Roots Aesthetic Distance and Use of Space Spontaneity – Thinking Fast and Slow Four Chairs Method Group Method Clinical Example: Group Supervision With Rachel Clinical Example: Using the Four Chair Method in Individual Supervision With Kevin Considerations Concluding Thoughts Note References Chapter 6 Mirroring Within Supervision Different Ways of Using Mirroring in Supervision Embodied Presence Reflecting During My Own Supervision Sessions Mirroring and Preparing for the Session Mirroring and the Environment Mirroring and Hospitality Mirroring When Supervising in Groups Mirroring and Insight Arrival of Insight Mirroring and Co-Creation Conclusion Appendix 1: An Exploration of An Embodied Sense of Mirroring References Chapter 7 Reflections On Thresholds and Containers in Supervision Introduction The Body as a Compass FERN (Framework for the Embodied Reflective Narrative): A Creative Embodied Supervision Tool How FERN Evolved How FERN Works Using FERN in an Ongoing Group Each Section in More Detail Ways in Which FERN May Be Used Emerging From FERN Using FERN Online Concluding Remarks On the Use of FERN as a Supervision Tool An Emerging Methodology A Note On Working With Improvised Movement Conclusion Notes References Chapter 8 Supervision Beyond Supervision: Widening and Nourishing Embodied Reflexivity as Part of Self-Supervision Embodied Reflexivity Debacle Recuperation in the Park Fiction as a Resource, as Research Ballet and Contemporary Dance: Enhancing Musicality and Core Rhythmicity The Holding Circle: Authentic Movement Notes References Chapter 9 Holding Sacred: The Woman’s Body in Supervision Introduction The Three Co-Authors Sue Annette Christina Holding Sacred the Woman’s Body: A Collective Body Mapping Ritual as Artistic Enquiry Three Acts and Articulations of a Woman’s Body Holding and Held Sacred in Supervision Embodied Modes of Holding Sacred in Supervision Concluding Thoughts Acknowledgements References Chapter 10 Supervision Or Co-Vision?: Co-Activating a Receptive and Responsive Container for Reflection and Restoration The Membrane Concept – the Safe Container for Embodied Supervision The Plasma Membrane – From Cell to Cellular Consciousness – The Body–Mind Continuum Some Features of the Membrane Concept – in Supervision The Three Membranes Vignette 1. The Three Membranes Vignette 2. The Motile Membrane Vignette 3. The Permeable Membrane in Co-Vision – An Embodied Transpersonal Space Vignette 4. The Mutable Membrane Notes References Index