Supervision with Attachment Theory as Our Guide

with Anne Power

Course information

Attachment theory can be a useful tool in supervision. This workshop will provide theoretical input as well as space for supervisors to explore their own practice.

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The day could also be relevant to those considering supervision training and to supervisees who would like to understand their own process more deeply and to reflect on how they use supervision.

Some of the dilemmas we will consider:

• When supervision feels flat and we long to enliven it
• When we are not confident of a supervisee’s competency
• When diversity in a supervision group gets in the way of reverie or play
• When transference in the supervision room damages the supervisory alliance
• When we doubt we are getting the whole picture

How can Attachment Theory help us reflect on what is going on and supply some ideas for working with these challenges?

How do we establish a secure base in supervision to enable exploration and learning?

How may the attachment stories of the therapist and supervisor be impacting with that of the client?

Speaker

Anne Power has a particular interest in attachment theory and she works with individuals and couples in private practice in Pimlico. Her earlier work was in the NHS and at the Terence Higgins Trust. Anne’s primary training was at the Bowlby Centre and subsequent trainings were with Relate and at WPF where she did an MA in supervision.

Believing that teaching itself is a skilled task, Anne gained a qualification in teaching adults and since then has contributed to trainings and workshops in many settings.

She is a Visiting Lecturer at Regents University London and has published papers on supervision as well as therapy-relevant topics. She has written a book on what happens when the therapist imposes an ending on the client: Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement, to be published by Routledge in 2015. Anne is registered with both UKCP and BACP.

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Course programme

Saturday, 14 November 2020

Course venue

Boardroom, Dominion Theatre, central London

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