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Creative Supervision focuses on igniting the imagination and the creative process in supervision. Two experienced expressive arts therapy supervisors will demonstrate and discuss how to weave creative arts processes into the supervisory sessions.
Blending expressive arts processes with traditional models of supervision can deepen the supervisory process by:
- enlivening the basic nuts and bolts exchange of supervisory information,
- intensifying empathetic understanding
- clarifying diagnostic issues,
- uncovering co-transference intersubjective themes, and
- illuminating parallel process in the supervisory relationship
Particpants will learn the theoretical framework for this approach, witness a demonstration and experience this approach in role-play sessions. No arts expeeince is necessary for this workshop.
Course Description:
Creative Supervision is a unique integrated approach, blending traditional and Expressive arts models of supervision. It weaves in arts processes to ignite the creative process in supervision
This course will combine the styles of two experienced expressive arts supervisors i. Through experiential processes and lectures, they will address the issues of transference, .countertransference and the intersubjective experience of both supervisor and supervisee present practical ideas for mentoring the supervisee, dilemmas that are unique to the use of arts in therapy and assist participants in a deeper understanding of themselves as supervisors and as therapists. Each presenter will present key points gleaned from her experience as supervisor and her specific interests in the area of arts based supervision.
Discussions and questions will be welcomed. Participants are encouraged
to bring specific problems encountered in their practice as supervisors.
Bios:
Kate T. Donohue, Ph.D., REAT, licensed psychologist has been in private practice and supervised psychology, MFT and expressive arts therapists for twenty years. She coordinates the supervision of expressive arts therapy practicum trainees, as well as teaching as an associate professor in the expressive arts therapy Program at CIIS. Kate developed the registration requirements and the ethics standards for registered expressive arts therapists (REAT) for the International Expressive Art Therapy Association. She has published din the area of expressive arts and Jungian psychology and has made numerous presentations on expressive arts therapy and symbolic process.
Frances Smith Goldberg, MA, LMFT, MT-BC, FAMI, is a board-certified music therapist who has interwoven the arts in therapy and supervision for more than 30 years in hospitals and private practice with a transpersonal and psychodynamic orientation. She is a retired faculty member of CIIS’s Expressive Arts Therapy program and clinical faculty at the University of California at San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. Fran has been Director of the Therapeutic Arts Institute for the past 15 years, providing training in The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music both in California and internationally.
Purpose/Goals:
This course will introduce a unique multifaceted arts based approach to clinical supervision. This approach blends traditional and expressive arts models of supervision. Theory, research and methodology of this arts based supervisory approach will be presented for the purpose of deepening experienced therapists supervisory process. It builds on the participants’ experience and expertise in clinical supervision.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Understand the basic theories underlying creative supervision.
- Understand how to deepen the supervisory process through the arts.
- Identify expressive arts interventions for supervision.
- Understand the use of the arts in exploring transference, countertransference and Intersubjectivity.
- Understand the unique issues of creative supervision.
This course will focus on the application of expressive and creative arts therapy approaches to clinical supervision. Both psychological and arts based theories underlying the supervisory process will be presented. This supervision model will cover the different realms of human experience that expressive and creative arts approaches encompass: the literal, emotional and imaginal. Through experiential processes and discussion, this course will address issues of transference and countertransference in therapy and supervision, present practical ideas for mentoring the supervisee, dilemmas that are unique to the use of arts in therapy and assist participants in a deeper understanding of themselves as supervisors and as therapists.
This course will combine the styles of two experienced supervisors in the field of arts-based therapies. Each presenter will present key points gleaned from her experience as supervisor and her specific interests in the area of arts based supervision. Discussions and questions will be welcomed. Participants are encouraged to bring specific problems encountered in their practice as supervisors.
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