Supervision through a Grief and Loss Lens:
an existential perspective
ONLINE via zoom across 2 half-days
Thur 28 & Fri 29 JULY 2022 – FULL wait list only
An existentially-informed workshop across 2 half-days delivered online via zoom
Loss is part of life for everyone and grief is experienced (in varying degrees) whenever change or endings occur. Yet supervision training rarely engages with this facet of life or fosters the application of a grief and loss lens when working with supervisees. There are a plethora of supervision models and equally as many grief, loss and bereavement theories; but there is a lack of literature – and therefore practice – that marries the two.
Workshop Overview
Offering supervision to therapists and counsellors requires the application of many lenses to help ensure that as many of the facets of therapeutic care as possible are explored and comprehended. In this workshop, Dr Greg Roberts and Dr Alison Strasser will invite you to actively apply a uniquely existential grief and loss lens to providing supervision. Over the 2 half-days, you will learn more about the ways in which contemporary grief and loss theories and perspectives can enrich and expand your supervisory frame of reference. These perspectives will then be utilised to generate grief-informed curiosity and the kind of questions that can support the supervisees’ professional companioning of clients towards a gentle and meaningful integration of change and loss into their lives.
Experiential practice sessions will be an integral part of this workshop, allowing time and space to engage with the concepts and learning that are offered.
Learning Edges you can expect to take away from the workshop:
- How to apply an existential grief and loss lens when providing supervision
- Ways of identifying when a grief and loss lens is useful in supervision
- Ability to recognise experiences of grief and loss in the supervisor/supervisee relationship
Who Should Attend
Any supervisor who would like to better understand how to integrate a grief and loss lens into their supervisory practice
Facilitators: Dr Greg Roberts & Dr Alison Strasser
Greg Roberts PhD, BSW (Hons), MAASW
Greg is a Doctor of Philosophy, an accredited Counsellor and Social Worker. Since 2001, Greg has focused almost exclusively on working with grief, bereavement and trauma and prior to that worked in acute and community health settings focusing on older adults, men’s health and people living with disabilities. Greg currently works as the Victorian Manager of Support After Suicide and has a small private practice, working as a counsellor, group facilitator, educator and clinical supervisor. Greg is a founding committee member of the Victorian Loss and Grief Practitioner’s Association and he is the Trainer for CEP’s Grief, Loss and Bereavement training, the only existentially-informed grief and loss training pathway in Australia.
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 founded Centre for Existential Practice in 2008. 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. Alison co-authored Time-Limited Existential Therapy with her father, Freddie Strasser and has just published a revised edition.
ONLINE via ZOOM
Date: Thur 28 & Fri 29 JULY 2022 – FULL wait list only
Time: Please join at 9.20 to sort out any technical issues Workshop: 9.30am to 12.45pm AEST each day (15 minutes of break time is accommodated)
Location: online via zoom (registrants will receive an invitation to participate and all the details they require in advance of the date)
Cost: $320 (EB flat rate)
CPD Hours: 6
note to registrants:
if you have registered for other CEP online workshops in 2022 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.