Open Ended Conversations: the nature of ISN
Open Ended Conversations: the nature of ISN by Monica Suswin originally posted June 11, 2021 Supervision is a very particular type of conversation In Love with Supervision: Creating Transformative Conversations (Robin & Joan Shohet, 2020. p.4) The Nature of Conversation An open approach to conversation means we may express our ideas free of perceived constraints of correct ways of thinking. We aim to listen with care to others and voice our responses and challenges too. Within the remit of supervision, the scope of conversation offers the opportunity for an open and welcoming… Read More
International Supervision Week 2022
7th International Supervision Week Online Tuesday 28th June – Saturday 2nd July 2022 Hosted by ISN, Online Events and CSTD London The primary purpose of International Supervision Week is to spread the idea that supervision could be beneficial in many different ways to a wide range of people. As such, the aim is to go to places where supervision might not usually be happening, and to create forums for innovative, exciting and connecting conversations about work and life. Click on link below which shows a complete list of workshops. There are one or… Read More
A ‘tick box?’ Placing EDI at the Heart of Supervision Workshop with Dr. Mish Seabrook and Luan Baines-Ball
Sat, 7 May 2022 10:00 – 12:30 BST Supervisors, to what depth do you address EDI in the supervision you offer? Is it a ”tick box’? As supervisors, there may be issues that you feel less comfortable addressing, or feel less confident about. In collaboration with the Interdependent Supervisors Network, Dr. Mish Seabrook & Luan Baines-Ball invite you to join them in this reflective workshop, lasting 2.5 hours. The aim is to encourage a critical reflection of how Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) is addressed in the supervision you offer. As supervisors,… Read More
International Supervision Week
Tues 28 June – Sat 2 July 2022 Call for Presenters The primary purpose of International Supervision Week is to spread the idea that supervision could be beneficial in many different ways to a wide range of people. As such the aim is to go to places where supervision might not usually be happening and to create forums for innovative, exciting, and connecting conversations about work and life. Over these five days, there will the option of taking 1 or 2 hour slots. They are throughout the day between 9am and 9pm UK time, so that… Read More
Report on ISN Autumn Gathering 19.11.21
9 of us met hosted by Jim Holloway and Robin Shohet. We met on Zoom for three hours with two short breaks. We shared why we had come and appreciated the emergent nature of the network and at the same time how do you belong to something emergent? The creative tension of needing/wanting to belong and needing/wanting to be independent; it is a ‘creative tension’ that Sue Goss explores in her book The Open Tribe. Robin gave some of the history, purpose and structure which on returning to look at the website this… Read More
Joining Link to Autumn Gathering Online
20 November 2021. 10am – 1pm You are welcome to join us online via Zoom on the above day. The gathering will be an opportunity to meet fellow supervisors/supervisees – both new and experienced – for a morning of lively and reflective interactions. SEE BELOW FOR JOINING DETAILS ON ZOOM Jim Holloway is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: ISN Autumn GatheringTime: Nov 20, 2021 10:00 AM London Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86010716362 Meeting ID: 860 1071 6362
Autumn Gathering Online
20 November 2021. 10am – 1pm You are welcome to join us online via Zoom on the above day. The gathering will be an opportunity to meet fellow supervisors/supervisees – both new and experienced – for a morning of lively and reflective interactions. Jim Holloway will be holding the space and the Zoom invite will be posted on the ISN website a week before 20 November 2021. To be sent the link directly, please contact jimholloway@protonmail.com
Summer Gathering of Interdependent Supervisors Network
2nd July 2021 10 – 4 pm BST Cost: a self-selected fee booked through Eventbrite There are now 7 peer supervision groups and seven supervision pairs or dyads who have joined the network. People are also emailing either to be put in touch with a peer supervision group, or how to start a peer supervision group. The tribe is growing! The idea of a community network has been around sometime, not just in supervision, but in day to day life. Sue Goss, author of Open Tribe http://iwbooks.co.uk/person/sue-goss and Hilary Cottam, author of Radical Help https://www.hilarycottam.com both write eloquently and practically about the need… Read More
Centre for Peaceful Solutions Webinar
“Empathy in Action – Exercising the Heart” Join us for a FREE 120-minute webinar on 4th November 2020 at 18:00 (UK time) where Maria Arpa, MBE, Founder of the Centre for Peaceful Solutions will walk through a live demonstration in dealing with our inner and outer landscape when it comes to conflicts in our life. VIDEO [2:47]: Watch Maria Arpa, Founder of the Center for Peaceful Solutions, introducing the Dialogue Road Map. This will be an interactive session with a live audience member so we will shout out for a volunteer! The 120-minute webinar will include: · A welcome from Maria Arpa,… Read More
Two Poems by William Ayot
Here are two poems which William Ayot wrote for his and Juliet Grayson’s presentation on Compassion for the Perpetrator on July 3rd. We thought we would share them here: Pandemic You can catch it in a lift — on a crowded bus, on your way to work or noticing a stranger in the street who, catching your eye, looks down and away. Sometimes it’s something someone says, in a meeting, over dinner, even on a date. Like a half-suppressed but barked-out sneeze that sprays its lethal shower of droplets, a single word… Read More