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CPD Credits
1.25
Event Type
Recorded Event
Location
Your TR Together account
Standard
£40.00
Trainee/NHS
£32.00
November's Live Supervision at Lunchtime
With Phil Mollon
Supervision is an essential aspect of the therapeutic process, providing therapists with valuable guidance, development of clinical skills and a reflective space to think about the complexities of their work with an experienced colleague. Live supervision offers a unique opportunity for psychotherapists to go ‘behind the scenes’ and witness the many different styles and approaches to supervision, offering insight and opportunity to learn from each other.
Each guest supervisor presents on their distinct theoretical orientations and personal style. Supervisors offer techniques, interventions and theoretical perspectives that they have developed through their own clinical practice, experience of being supervised and offering supervision. With extensive experience in the field speakers bring together theory and lived experience ensuring that participants leave these sessions with new learnings, applications and adaptability to different and perhaps challenging case material.
In this session our guest supervisor, Phil Mollon, works live with a volunteer, preselected by our team, who will act as a supervisee. This supervisee will offer a composite case or a case where permission has been granted to share. The session will begin with a brief outline of the case which will then be followed by an unrehearsed live supervision. There are opportunities for questions and discussion with supervisee and supervisor after the live supervision.
Beyond the theoretical paradigms, we hope to demonstrate the art of supervision itself – the delicate balance of support and challenge, the cultivation of self-awareness in the practitioner, and a safe and nurturing space for professional growth. These sessions will showcase how supervisors tailor their method to the unique needs and strengths of each therapist, honoring diversity and individuality in the process.
We look forward to welcoming you in, behind the scenes, for these fascinating and rewarding sessions.
Programme
Inspirations for supervision at the interface of psychoanalysis and energy psychotherapy
Three key questions are often very helpful in revealing how personality has been shaped and are therefore useful in orienting a supervisory exploration.
What did your mother want of you – and how did you respond to this?
What did your father want of you – and how did you respond to this?
What role were you assigned in relation to siblings (if any) – and how did you respond to this?
Phil Mollon will explore these questions with our supervisee in the context of psychoanalytic energy psychotherapy. Energy psychotherapy can embrace all that is understood within psychoanalysis, but also teaches us to be precise in identifying and exploring the events and dynamics that have shaped the client’s development and, crucially, the factors that hold the problems in place. Thus, we can enquire about specific events and traumas, and the beliefs and protective strategies that have arisen from these. We can consider the unconscious motives for maintaining the presenting difficulties – often to do with feeling it is not safe to resolve the problem or that the person does not deserve to overcome it, or that there is hidden pleasure in the suffering.
Phil Mollon and Supervisee
Live Supervision
In this session our guest supervisor, Phil Mollon, will work live with a volunteer, preselected by our team, who will act as a supervisee. This supervisee will offer a composite case or a case where permission has been granted to share. The session will begin with a brief outline of the case which will then be followed by an unrehearsed live supervision. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion with supervisee and supervisor after the live supervision.
Questions from participants
Phil Mollon
Phil Mollon is a psychoanalyst, energy psychotherapist, and clinical psychologist. He worked full time in NHS mental health services for 37 years, until retiring to private practice in 2014. He is the author of 13 books on psychotherapy, including The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance (1993); Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut (2002); and Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (2008). For the last 25 years, he has been immersed in developing the field of energy psychotherapy, exploring the higher dimensional physics at the interface of the mind, body, and subtle energy system. He is a past president of the international Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP).
- Psychotherapists
- Couple and Family Psychotherapists
- Psychoanalysts
- Psychologists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Counsellors
- Social workers
- Teachers/Educators
Enhance Supervisory Skills: Gain insights into the multifaceted role of supervision.
Explore Diverse Supervision Approaches: Engage in live supervision to witness various supervision styles and techniques.
Supervisor Pastoral Role: Develop a nuanced grasp of the supervisors role – balancing support and challenge, fostering self-awareness, and providing a safe space for growth.
Key Questions for Supervision: Understand the three main questions Phil Mollon believes to be essential for supervision
Supervision in the context of psychoanalytic energy psychotherapy
Standard Price: £40.00
Trainee and NHS staff: £32.00
Group Rates (for 4 or more): Contact events@trtogether.com for customised pricing.
Trainee discount: To qualify for this offer you need to be taking a course which provides core practitioner training in counselling or psychotherapy that is at least 1 year full time or two years part time and recognised by the BACP or UKCP. TR Together reserve the right to ask to see evidence of training being undertaken.
Alumni: If you are a TR Alumni (TRAPC member) please email anitabruz@tavistockrelationships.org for a discount code to add at checkout
Your CPD certificate will be available to download from your TR Together account within 48 hours of purchase.