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Supervision as Spiritual Practice

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ISBN 9781915220547 - Publication: 12th Dec 2024
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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.

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

Robin Shohet

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, including, with Joan Shohet, In Love with Supervision (PCCS Books, 2020). 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.

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