Embodied Approaches to Supervision: The Listening Body

Embodied Approaches to Supervision presents innovative approaches to working with the body in supervision.

The authors, who are all experts in their field, bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to each chapter, raising the reader’s awareness of the value of working with the body in the supervisory relationship. With the help of case vignettes, the book offers reflections on the intimate and dynamic interaction between mind and body and how to work with this in supervision. It presents diverse approaches to practice, where the body is at the centre of facilitating reflection and containment of supervisees, either in one-to-one or group contexts, in person and online. Readers gain insight about how embodiment is attended to within as well as outside of the session in the context of self-supervision.

This text will be of value to supervisors and supervisors-in-training, practitioners seeking supervision and anyone keen to learn more about embodied approaches in supervision.

Céline Butté, MA, is a UKCP and ADMP registered dance movement psychotherapist, a supervisor, and one of the core teachers on the Creative Supervision Diploma with the London Centre for Psychodrama. She co-edited Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities: Out of the Shadows, into the Light (2017) and has authored several other publications.

Tasha Colbert, PG(dip), is a UKCP and ADMP registered dance movement psychotherapist, supervisor and co-director of The Institute of Embodied Psychotherapy where she is a trainer on the Certificate in Integrative Embodied Psychotherapy. She has also co-edited the book Working across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations, Routledge (2017).