PGCE In Integrative/Transpersonal Supervision:My Philosophy Of Supervision

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PGCE In Integrative/Transpersonal Supervision: Philosophy Of Supervision

Following seven years of client work as a therapist, five spent working full-time within organisations, I have a felt sense that discovering and developing the clinical supervisor configuration within my self structure seems a natural evolutionary stage for me on my journey. A recent collision of personal catastrophe and great professional responsibility within a compromised system has brought me, not unsurprisingly to the transpersonal oasis which forms a weighty part of this course and a new dimension of possibilities for supervisory practice. And I believe I know now to be mindful of a containing frame or structure in which to offer supervision/therapy - Shohet and Hawkins seven eyed model is referenced throughout - for the sake and safety of all systems and individuals involved. While my model as a therapist to date has seen an intricate weaving together of existential/relational/person-centred strands into a humanistic tapestry that has oft been touched by spirit, I only now feel transpersonally limber enough to really let it in. I am no longer, as it were, so blind in my eighth eye. The main body of this work will seek to illustrate how I believe my