Centre for Existential Practice

Creative Process in Group Supervision

 

 

Creative Process in Group Supervision:
benefits to the group and the individual

ONLINE: Over 3 mornings on Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 MAY 2025

 

Introduction

When executed well, group supervision generates a diverse range of perspectives on situations and themes that can be invaluable to group members. Challenges to the process can include personality differences, anxiety in particular supervisee(s) or feelings of pressure to conform to group norms. But whether a session is flowing or hampered in some way, creative approaches can help elevate it by facilitating non-linear ways of thinking and ensuring everyone has a voice. This can help deepen reflection, enhance insight and afford access to perspectives that may not emerge in standard conversations and commentary.

 

Workshop overview

In this workshop, we will be examining a variety of creative practices that can be used both online and in-person. We will look at both environments, discuss the differences and how to make the best use of each. The creative practices we’ll explore will address one or more of the principles and processes that emerge in group supervision, such as learning styles, parallel process and relational dynamics.

 

What we’ll cover:

    • Role playing or story telling
      To re-enact a situation or explore dynamics that occur in a case presentation
    • Sand Tray or Cards
      Using symbolic objects to help uncover relational or systemic issues
    • Guided visualisation
      To connect with deeper layers of emotion and intuition on a client situation
    • Reflective teamwork, including ‘playback theatre’
      To explore what has been heard by responding through allocated roles
    • Metaphors or Stories
      To identify significant factors through the use of metaphors and/or movie-style descriptions
    • Post-it Note Feedback
      To contain each group member’s questions and feedback about a case to the same smallish space

 

What you can expect to walk away with:

    • Creative processes that you will have personally experienced in a group setting to use with your supervision groups 
    • When and how to use them – online and in-person
    • A variety of ways to help you foster more imaginative and open understandings of colleagues, clients and cases among your group members

       

Who should attend

Practising supervisors in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, coaching, social work or similar disciplines who are seeking to expand their skills and competencies in group supervision

 

 

Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser & Dr Adam McLean

Alison Strasser

Alison Strasser DProf (Psychotherapy & Counselling), MA, BA Hons
Alison is a practising psychotherapist, coach and supervisor. She is also an educator with a passion for imparting how existential themes can be integrated into every therapeutic approach. She was instrumental in creating the existential curriculum for many counselling and psychotherapy trainings in Australia and her doctorate focused on the process of supervision, work that led to a framework for supervisor training, now a major component of CEP’s annual program.

Adam McLeanAdam McLean DProf (Psychotherapy & Counselling), M Counselling, Grad Dip Psych/Couns, BCHC, BN
Adam is a clinical psychotherapist, supervisor, educator and trainer with over 30 years experience and a continuing interest in the human capacity for opening up to the possibilities in life. He is recognised as a leading group therapist and supervisor and provides training in both areas. Adam’s doctorate focused on what it takes to elevate group leader technique to the art of group leader presence, work that now informs  CEP’s group leadership course as part of their suite of specialist offerings. 

 

 

 

NATIONAL ONLINE via ZOOM

Date: Thur 8, Fri 9 and Sat 10 MAY 2025 (3 mornings)
Cost: $420 (flat rate)
CPD Hours: 9
Time: 9.30am to 1.00 pm AEST each day
Location: online via zoom (registrants will receive an invitation to participate and all the details they require in advance of the date)

register

 

note to registrants: 
If you have registered for other CEP online workshops in 2025 the registration form will show checked boxes for those. That is your personal record, so please just check the box for this registration – you do not need to uncheck the others

Payment is due at least 21 days before start of the workshop or earlier. Please check our Terms and Conditions when you register.