The Scribble Story Technique: An Arts-Based Supervision Process

ABSTRACT

Graduate counseling programs are currently utilizing both individual and group supervision formats so that supervisees (i.e., counselors-in-training) and supervisors (i.e., counselor educators) have the chance to process the clinical work from various practicum and internship sites. The use of creativity and arts-based processes in supervision provide an opportunity to move beyond words and explore the symbolic and unconscious experiences that emerge in the clinical encounter. This article reimagines the Florence Cane's Scribble Technique as the Story Scribble Technique (SST), which applies elements of storytelling, metaphor, and symbolism to the original process to create a unique technique for clinical exploration in supervision.

KEYWORDS:

• Arts-based supervision
• counselor education and supervision
• creativity in counseling
• scribble story technique
• projective techniques

Acknowledgments

We want to extend our sincerest gratitude to Cohort 2 in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) program at Molloy College for allowing us to utilize their scribbles and their insights on how these scribbles shaped their practicum experiences, and toward the CMHC department for providing us the time and the space to write this piece. We would also like to give a special thanks to Jason Frydman, Tami Herzog, Maria Hodermarska, Robert Landy, and Tyce Nadrich for their thoughtful feedback throughout the editing process.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.