CTC Diploma in Creative Supervision 2018-2019
Creative Supervision includes the use of action methods and creative approaches in the supervision of therapists and other professionals involved in direct work with clients of all ages, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks, and in a variety of circumstances. These strategies also prove useful in the mentoring and consultative roles that are part and parcel of many professional lives. This course focuses on utilizing new and innovative approaches utilizing the creative arts, lateral thinking, and playful activities in the supervision process. An aim is to facilitate supervisors to connect more fully with supervisees and facilitate them in fully exploring and finding solutions to dilemmas in client work and in the management of clinical teams. There is a focus on learning to match supervision style and process to supervisee needs, ensuring that the continuum of needs of those with varying degrees of experience is responded to in an integrated manner. Central to this is the use of informed intuition to hypothesize, blended with advanced skills in understanding intrapersonal and interpersonal processes and knowing when and how to apply diverse approaches.
This course is suitable for therapists adopting a variety of approaches in their work, regardless of the specific core training that they have undertaken. It is an experiential training with a substantial theoretical component and equips trainees to undertake the multiple roles of the supervisor. The core framework utilized in the course is humanistic and integrative. Our emphasis on creative approaches makes it suitable for those supervising practitioners who work in a wide variety of settings, with a broad spectrum of clients. Our main model for supervision is that developed by Hawkins and Shohet; the Seven-Eyed Supervision Model described in their ground-breaking book ‘Supervision in the Helping Professions’. “The one really powerful book in this area, a book that fundamentally changed the way in which people think about supervision and training.” According to Professor John McLeod. There are also opportunities to review other relevant theoretical approaches.
Practice with supervisees is required during the course. Some of this work will be supervised within the course structure to maximize learning. In addition, participants are required to engage in external supervision on supervision and submit a supervisors’ report.
Yet again, we are delighted to be able to deliver this training with input from international experts in the field: Dr. Professor Mooli Lahad, Dr. Sue Jennings, and Joan Wilmot all teach modules. There is also a one day conference covering ‘Legal Issues’ included in the course. This Intensive training day is specifically designed to cover what you need to know about the legal system and the delicate legal issues involved in therapeutic work with clients of all ages and is delivered by Seamus Clarke BL, a barrister with particular expertise in the field. Majella Ryan is the course leader and is available throughout the course – both in teaching and supervision roles. Majella is centrally involved in providing supervision on supervision within the course.
Joan Wilmot delivers the October 18 (3-day) module, built around the 7 modes of supervision described in Supervision in the Helping Professions (Hawkins and Shohet OUPress 3rd edition 2006), and participants will get more out of the course if they read the relevant chapter in advance. Joan leads the group through each mode and provides opportunities to practice in triads – supervisor, supervisee, and observer. She also includes exercises designed to integrate the modes for back home situations. Joan has been teaching this model, with Robin Shohet, for over 35 years at the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (CSTD). Students will receive certification from CSTD for this module.
Dr. Sue Jennings will deliver two modules (September 18 and January 19) and will cover the use of the expressive arts in supervision, structuring, roles, core skills development, live supervision practice, the mandala method, and a host of creative approaches to enrich the practice of the supervisor.
Dr. Prof. Mooli Lahad is the world-renowned author of Creative Supervision: The use of Expressive Arts methods in Supervision and Self-Supervision (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) which combined humanistic, creative and practical approaches in a way that provided inspiration to supervisors across a range of disciplines. Dr. Lahad demonstrates how the most effective methods of supervision use both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, the intuitive and the logical. Mooli teaches the March 2019 module.
Suitable Applicants
This course is designed as an advanced experiential and skills-based training for:
- Psychotherapists, play therapists, creative arts therapists, and psychologists with considerable experience (usually with at least 5 years post-qualifying experience) and who are ready to or have started to, provide supervision.
- Health care and helping professionals holding supervisory responsibilities
- Teachers, carers, community workers who wish to develop their supervision skills
- Others with a supervisory role.
Suitable psychotherapist candidates will usually have a busy practice, generally working with 8 or more clients each week. These clients may be adults or children or a combination of both.
Course Duration: To facilitate trainees maintaining their work, we run the course over a number of one – three day modules throughout the year rather than having weekly or monthly sessions. The 2018 course dates are 7th – 9th September, 12th – 14th October, 12th – 14th January, 9th – 10th March, 13th April, and 11th – 12th May. The course runs for the full day (9.30 – 5.30pm) on all scheduled dates and 100 tutor-student contact hours are involved. The last date of the course is 12th May – this is the date for final submissions of logs and reports.
Assignments & Assessment: Assessment includes both written and practical components with self, peer and trainer input. The focus is on ensuring that graduates will have a toolkit of skills, a solid theoretical framework, and will be adept at responding to the needs of individual, or groups of, supervisees with a range of levels of expertise, utilizing a variety of therapeutic approaches across the spectrum of client groups.
Each participant will work with supervisees during the course and will write a 2000 word supervision case review about the experience of supervising one of these supervisees, including details of what made it ‘creative’ supervision. Another written assignment is in relation to managing an ethical or clinical decision-making dilemma. The external supervisor will be required to submit a report.
Venue: The course is run between the CTC training centre in Ballymore, Co. Westmeath, and the CARI Foundation in Limerick. The course is not residential; however, we can provide details of local reasonably priced B&B’s and self-catering accommodation. The Legal day (13th April) will be held in Leixlip, the September and January modules are held in Ballymore, and October, March and May modules will be in Limerick.
Fees: The course fee is €2,700. A non-refundable deposit of €300 is payable on acceptance of a place. The remainder becomes due before the first module. However, individual payment plan options are available. The fee includes the course attendance, all handouts, internal supervision on supervision group sessions, assessment, and the Legal Conference. Costs for external supervision on supervision are negotiated directly with the supervisor involved.
Course Trainers
Joan Wilmot was a co-founder of the Centre for Supervision and Team Development with Robin Shohet in 1979 and works as a trainer, supervisor, psychotherapist, and mediator. Her particular interest is in working with systems and using organizational and family constellations work. She has been running supervision training and working with teams, in particular in the NHS and voluntary sector, for over 40 years. Her passion is in enabling people to find the work they love and love the work they do. She is an active member of Playback Theatre and co-founder of Northern Lights Learning Conference.
Mooli Lahad Ph.D. is a senior medical and educational psychologist, founder of the Community Stress Prevention Center in Israel. Professor of psychology and drama-therapy at Tel Hai College in the Upper Galilee in Israel and at Surrey University Roehampton in England. He is the president of the Community Stress Prevention Center, an organization which he established in 1979 together with the Israeli Ministry of Education. Professor Lahad is the author and co-author of 29 books and guidelines and many articles on the topics of Communities under Stress, Creative Supervision and Coping with Life-Threatening Situations and treating Psychotrauma. He is the recipient of three professional Prizes: The Israeli Psychology Association – Bonner Prize for outstanding contributions to Stress Prevention and the Education system in Israel, The Adler Institute for the welfare of the child Prize Tel Aviv University, and the Israeli Lottery Prize for Innovations in medicine for developing a telepsychology service. Consultant to national and international ministries, to UNICEF and member of the Prime minister committee on public resiliency.
Sue Jennings Ph.D. is a Play Therapist, Dramatherapist, Supervisor, and Author. She is Professor of Play in Romania for the Association of Play Therapy and Dramatherapy. Until 2015 she was Visiting Professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education, at HELP University, Kuala Lumpur and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Play Work, Leeds Beckett University. She has taught Supervision, Play Therapy and Creative Methods at the Children’s Therapy Centre for over 10 years. Sue has pioneered Neuro-Dramatic-Play and Embodiment-Projection-Role in many countries including Malaysia, Romania, Singapore, Greece and Czech Republic. She has published over 35 books.
Majella Ryan M.I.A.C.P is a very experienced child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist and utilizes play therapy in her work with children. She has a strong interest in supporting healthy attachments. She specializes in working creatively with traumatized children and adolescents and their families. She has worked in a variety of settings including private practice, a family therapy service and in CARI for 20 years. Majella is a supervisor for play therapists, creative arts therapists, and child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapists.
Seamus Clarke, B.L. has a Bachelor Degree of Civil Law (International) from University College Dublin and De Paul University, Chicago. He has a Masters in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford and holds a Barrister-at-Law Degree from the Honourable Society of Kings Inns Dublin. He has a general practice at the bar specializing in the areas of Commercial Law, Employment Law, and Criminal Law. He lectures in a number of Institutions in EU Law, IT law and Criminal Law and is an Adjunct Professor in International Intellectual Property Law for the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Seamus has given courses to a variety of groups including many Counsellors & Medico-Legal Professionals.
Contact: Eileen Prendiville, Phone: 0876488149 E-mail: childrenstherapycentre@gmail.com Website: www.childrenstherapycentre.ie Children’s Therapy Centre, Tír Na nÓg, Slievenagorta, Ballymore, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
Diploma in Creative Supervision 2018-2019 – Course Information & Application Form