Training

Supervision training for Art Therapists (NEW)

14 Feb

Topics covered include:

  • Clarifying and negotiating the contract and working agreement
  • Challenging in an authoritative (not authoritarian) way
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Acknowledging experiences and feelings
  • Preparing for supervision
  • Setting and monitoring learning aims
  • being able to discriminate what is useful
  • Working with images
  • What to do when things go wrong

Information will be delivered through whole group presentations, small group discussions and experiential activities.

About Trainer:

Michèle Wood is a London-based Art Psychotherapist, who has supervised art therapy services in mental health units, oncology and palliative care settings, and worked directly with adults, families, and staff teams since 1989. Michèle also has 30+ years’ experience as an educator. She was a staff member on UK art therapy trainings at University of Hertfordshire, Roehampton University, and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is currently external examiner for Leeds Beckett University. Michèle is an international authority on art therapy in palliative care and has lectured at and chaired multi-professional conferences in UK, USA, Spain, and Canada and represented art therapists working in palliative care to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing in England.

In 2015 Michèle became a Churchill Fellow investigating the use of digital technology in palliative care. She initiated the 24-hour 2D/3D live streamed global event: Digital International Creative Arts Therapies Symposium connecting Singapore, Russia, London, Philadelphia, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. Her current doctoral research is into how organisations are using videoconferencing to deliver psychosocial care (including art therapy) to those living with terminal illness.

She is a reviewer for peer reviewed journals, an Advisor for the International Journal of Art Therapy and has published extensively. Michèle is currently a director of the British Association of Art Therapists. She continues to work part-time in Marie Curie Hospice London Place as an art therapist, resilience-based supervisor, and a trained Schwartz Round Facilitator.

Recent publications include

  • Srolovitz, M., et al., (2022) Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Music Therapy and Art Therapy. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 25:1, pp 135-144
  • Wood, M.J.M, Jacobson, B. & Cridford, H (2019) The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care. Routledge USA
  • Wood, M.J.M. (2015) 4.11 The Contribution of Art Therapy to Palliative Medicine. In: Cherny, N., Fallon, M., Kaasa, S., Portenoy, R.K. & Currow, D.C. (eds.) Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (Fifth Edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp.210.

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