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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.
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
Next Steps in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice: A student’s companion
By Nicola Blunden, Pete Sanders and Paul Wilkins
3rd edition
Publication date - 24th April 2025
ISBN 9781915220370
This is the third edition of the very popular Next Steps in Counselling Practice, revised, updated and expanded to accompany today’s counselling students on their journey towards qualification.
Next Steps in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice is aimed at the more advanced trainee and continues from where the PCCS Books classic First Steps in Counselling leaves off.
Like First Steps in Counselling, it is intended as a companion guide, addressed directly to the student counsellor. It is not a theory textbook – there are plenty of those already on the market. Rather, it seeks to answer the many questions that may come up for the individual student counsellor while in training, drawing on the authors’ accumulated experience as trainers and practitioners, and as one-time trainees themselves.
This book is designed to be of use to and facilitate the learning of all counselling and psychotherapy students, irrespective of the theories that underpin their training programmes and their own approaches to practice. It is not about one model of therapy but about what informs best practice across all therapies.
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This book will enable the student counsellor to learn about themself as well as discover new ideas and understand more deeply the skills required to be an effective practitioner.
Nicola Blunden is a person-centred and pluralistic therapist, with special practice interests in creative methods, plural identity, childhood trauma, and co-creation of therapy. She was previously Director of Studies of the person-centred pluralistic training at Metanoia Institute, and now leads the counselling and psychotherapy Masters' programme at UWE Bristol. She is an advocate for therapy that embraces diversity and co-creation.
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