Creative Supervision Across Modalities

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This much-needed cross-disciplinary book adds to the current literature on supervision. It will be indispensable to practitioners and students from a range of modalities. Each chapter thoughtfully illustrates a suggested model, resulting in a tightly structured volume. Creative practice fits into a common theory whilst inviting key topics in supervision to be considered. -- Professor Helen Payne, University of Hertfordshire, UK Good to see another helpful addition to the books on supervision, especially one which illustrates how "supervision should be a sand-pit in which we play, more than a law-court in which we judge". The authors draw on their experience as psychodramatists and creative therapists to show how supervision can be a rich place of creativity, experimentation and learning through play in its deepest sense. The book includes many useful approaches for using art, enactment and embodied approaches in a variety of supervision settings. It will be particularly useful for those supervising the creative therapies. -- Professor Peter Hawkins, co-founder and Director of the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (www.cstdbath.co.uk) The authors have done an excellent job in blending theory and creative methods in a very readable and accessible form, demonstrating their core belief that intentional focus on creativity enhances supervisor practice. They have included contributions from very different fields and combined them in a skilful way that gives the book a coherence within the diversity, and leaves the reader with the desire to experiment more within their own supervisory practice. -- Robin Shohet, editor of Passionate Supervision and Supervision as Transformation This book imaginatively combines theory and creative approaches to supervision, and is a must-read for both supervisor and supervisee. It is written in a manner that is both informative and practical, yet it also challenges the supervisor to move beyond the cultural conserve of supervision. It has a strong theoretical grounding that acknowledges the work and creativity of others and introduces innovative ideas from dramatherapy, psychodrama and playback theatre to enrich the supervisory experience. -- Jinnie Jefferies, Founder and Co-director, London Centre for Psychodrama