The ABCs of Art Therapy Supervision

Sharlene Friedman (RP, RCAT)
Toronto, ON

During a supervision training, as an experiential, we were invited to explore supervision in 100 words. Here was my exploration 100 words and more…

Accountability, acceptance, awareness, attitude, assumptions, awake, animals, argument, action, authenticity, attunement.

Being, being present, body, building, bridging, borrowing, breathing, bias, brave, blocks, boundary.

Curiosity, compassion, creating, co-creating, co-operating, collaborating, commonality, confronting , culture, comfort. Competencies.

Decisions, duty, doubt, daring, depleted, deepening, daunting, dive.

Efficiency, effective, effortless, energy, examples, exercises, expression, enquiry, emptiness, experience.

Fun, failure, fear, fair, focus.

Gratitude, generosity, Giraffe listening, guide, gardening, group, gatekeeper.

Heart math, heart listening, helping, hands, humour, honour, humility, holding.

Interest, intensity, insight, integrity imagination.

Jackal listening, justice, juicy bits, junctures.

Kindness, knowledge, key.

Listening, length, learning, leeway, limits, laughter.

Metaphor, mind, maps, meaningful, mirroring.

Nothing, nutty.

Openness, over extended.

Pulse, passion, practice, playful, power, procedural, poetry, protect.

Queries, questioning, quarantine.

Rest, relaxation, reflection, respect, reflexivity, responsibility, resilience, rank, role model.

Space, swamp, self-care, safety, support, spirit.

Trying, tenderness, traveling, treasuring.

Understanding, unknown, unfolding.

Values, vast, validating.

Whining, winning, work, write.

Xenial, xenagogue, xenas.

Yearning, yourself, yield, young, yammer.

Zaniness, zing.