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July 14th 2012 – with Morit Heitzler
Embodied Countertransference in Supervision
Over the last decade, the field of psychotherapy has increasingly paid attention to the body and non-verbal as well as subliminal communication. Neuroscience’s contributions (mirror neurons, right-brain-to-right-brain attunement, etc) have emphasised the importance of the mind-body connection in the ‘talking therapies’. This has great implications for the practice both of therapy and of supervision.
Using your own embodied countertransference in relation to the supervisee, as well as helping the therapist become more aware of theirs in relation to the client, can deepen our appreciation of significant moments in therapy and strengthen our understanding of the working alliance, both in terms of ruptures as well as repairs.
This training day will be an opportunity to enhance your perceptiveness and your capacity to interpret and make use of somatic messages as part of the overall non-verbal communication between client and therapist, as well as between the therapist and yourself as the supervisor. By attending to the therapist’s body as well as your own and by monitoring the relationship between mind and body, the overall attunement of supervision to unconscious processes can be significantly enhanced.