Creative Action Techniques in Supervision

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a description of an integrative model of systemic and psychodramatic supervision practice; conceptualizing and illustrating the clinical use of time, space, and action within supervision. By introducing specific supervisory skills and key principles, the authors propose that in addition to language, action within supervision can support clinicians to become creative and responsive whilst remaining clear and rigorous in their practice. Rather than seeing the integration of disciplines as novel, the authors remind us that the schools of psychodrama and systemic therapy have shared roots and through the use of a supervisory exercise, demonstrate that these ideas have the potential to further cross-fertilize and enhance techniques for supervision and therapy practice.

KEYWORDS:

• Systemic
• psychodrama
• supervision
• esthetic distance
• spontaneity