Supervision as Spiritual Practice
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : December 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 172
- Category :
Supervision - Catalogue No : 98363
- ISBN 13 : 9781915220547
- ISBN 10 : 1915220548
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For Robin Shohet and his co-contributors to this book, spiritual practice may be defined as the awareness there is something more to human existence than just us, as separate individuals. A spiritual perspective enables us to make deeper connections with ourselves, and accordingly with each other. We move from the finite game – that of measuring results and outcomes – to the infinite game, where creativity and new possibilities can emerge. In so doing, we transcend what Shohet argues is socially conditioned, fear-based separation from each other and everything around us. And this too is the role and purpose of supervision, as explored in this book. Shohet brings together essays by counsellors and coaches from a diploma course on supervision as spiritual practice. Contributors write with brave honesty and vulnerability about their journeys; how they came to embrace a state of not knowing, making space for greater depth and connection in the supervisory relationship which can translate into all relationships.
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This is a valuable book to read for all supervisors and supervisees, interested in the question, "How can my supervision be more spiritual?" Robin Shohet and his students open interesting and personal windows and reflections on many different ways of engaging with supervision, informed by a spiritual lens and by personal spiritual practices. As in his previous books, Robin brings a refreshing, different and challenging approach to the more mainstream supervision literature.
Professor Peter Hawkins, Chairman of Renewal Associates, global thought leader and author on supervision, psychotherapy, coaching, systemic team coaching, leadership, and organisational transformation
This book encourages readers to embark on the journey that has always been available – one we may have taken countless times before. We are invited to journey inward, pausing deliberately at the places where we have been deeply wounded – those places that vibrate and resonate with our clients, supervisees, and loved ones. And to keep travelling to encounter the divine, the love that resides within and around all of us. I have deeply enjoyed and appreciated my time with Robin and colleagues while reading this book. Journeying together, we share in the dilemmas, triumphs, and determination to stay deeply committed to being professionals, practitioners, and people who practice with love. This book will guide and transport you, ultimately bringing you to where we already are – spiritual beings in practice.
John Wilson, Director, Onlinevents
Robin Shohet and these graduate trainees from his and Joan Wilmot’s "Supervision as Spiritual Practice" course show immense generosity and courage in sharing here their refreshingly honest descriptions of their learning in process, drawing on their personal experience and client caseloads. Such unpolished, sometimes raw openness is a rare thing to find in a published book and offers inspiration to other supervisors wishing to explore spirituality in their work. Alongside, Robin has reworked the seven-eyed model of supervision to reflect a spiritual dimension, bringing greater depth to this classic approach. This book is an extraordinary example of transcendence of ego and a humbling reminder that we are all on a learning journey. I would highly recommend it to any supervisor (or supervisee) wanting to deepen their connection to self and others.
Sheila Campbell-Lloyd, EMCC master coach/supervisor
Reading this book has been a joy. Immersing myself into Robin and his contributor's words, I have emerged feeling refreshed with a renewed enthusiasm for the compassionate and spiritually aware approach to supervision that is put forward. The book encourages us all as supervisors to really "see" and "be with" our supervisees and to have compassion for them and ourselves. It moves beyond teaching about the traditional roles of supervision to the task of nurturing the soul of the supervisee. One supervisee feeds back, "my cup is full again". Surely this is what all of us need to enable us to continue to undertake the many and often difficult challenges of therapeutic work.
Dr Susan Dale, counsellor, supervisor, narrative practitioner and author of Trauma-Informed Practice: A Collaborative Narrative Approach
Table of Contents
Foreword
Professor Charlotte Sills
Introduction
Robin Shohet
1. Including the Ecological in the Supervision Process
Elaine Thelier
2. Otherness in Supervision
Carole J Miles
3. Super Vision: Revisiting the Seven Eyed Model Through the Lens of Love and Connection
Robin Shohet
4. Awakening to the Song of Silence: Balancing Duality and Unity in Supervision
Neela Masani
5. Supervision: Going Beyond Our Personal Narrative
Emily Henderson
6. Becoming a ‘Good Enough Supervisor
Maureen Othen
7. Pilgrimage to Metamorphosis
Sue White
8. The Heart of Kindness
Sue Haycroft
9. The Spiritual Act of Supporting Clients to See More Clearly
Kathryn Gordon
Conclusion: There Is Only the Journey
Robin Shohet
About the Editor(s)
Robin Shohet worked as a primary school teacher and then residential social worker in a therapeutic community for people coming out of psychiatric hospital. In 1979 he co-founded the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (www.cstdlondon.co.uk), specialising in supervision training. He is the author and editor of several books on supervision in counselling and other health and social care settings. In 1999 and 2013, he organised two international conferences on forgiveness, based on the spiritual self-study programme A Course in Miracles, and in recent years, as well as his supervision work, he has been delivering workshops on this topic.
He lives with his family at the Findhorn Foundation, a spiritual community in the North East of Scotland.
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