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
This drop-in group is an opportunity for colleagues to come together into pop up peer groups and access support and supervision. We will begin this session with the large group; the intention being to move into peer groups, spending most of the workshop in peer group supervision. This is also an opportunity for peer groups that have already formed to meet at the same time as other groups and feel a wider community creating a container in wwhich multiple peer groups can be held.\ This session will be convened by Joan &… Read More
On July 3rd almost 200 of us met for an online ISN conference. It had been planned online from the beginning because it is a widely spread network, still emergent and small so this seemed the best way of going forward. As it happened it turned out to be the only way. We had some excellent speakers, Keemar Keemar who looked at how we relate to supervision through our autobiographies and Juliet Grayson and William Ayot presented on their work with perpetrators – Compassion for Perpetrators. William is also a poet and he… Read More
A Brief History Robin and I (CSTDLondon) started running the online group supervision in conjunction with Onlinevents on Thursday mornings from March 26th 2020. The idea for it emerged in a conversation with John Wilson and Fabienne Chazeaux of onlinevents. However it was conceived well before then through many years of us running supervision groups and trainings in supervision, the monthly Friday drop in supervision group and the supervisors network (ISN), from John Wilson’s side running onlinevents for the last eleven years and jointly our working together on and off for the last eight… Read More