The Art of Self-Supervision Studying the link between self-reflection and self-care by Laurie Ponsford-Hill

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The Art of Self-Supervision

Studying the link between self-reflection and self-care

by Laurie Ponsford-Hill

 

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GENRE: Self-help, Non-fiction

 

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BLURB:

 

At last, the field of relational therapy has a technique for the art of self-supervision. Everyone agrees that supervision is essential, however the ultimate goal of supervision is to provide a tool beyond supervision for self-supervision. This book captures the primary ingredients of self-supervision and proves the link between self-reflection and self-care. No matter where you are on your journey as a professional, The Art of Self-Supervision: Studying the link between self-reflection and self-care will lead you to a process to tune into your own expert guidance and a greater capacity to help yourself.

 

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EXCERPTS:

 

My personal experiences, as a clinician and as an art therapist, affirm the importance for members of the helping professions to monitor and maintain their well-being. Catherine Hyland Moon (2002) reminded me that the art therapy profession has slowly evolved to its contemporary form with the acknowledgement that the therapist is a mental health professional. She underscored the usefulness of artistic expression as a therapeutic strategy enabling clients to access their deepest levels of self-awareness and self–actualization. The art therapist is aware that the creative process is both more profound and significant to the individual than what is actually created. Making the assumptions that a therapist’s professional responsibility incorporates ensuring his/her own mental wellness, and that art therapy seeks to heal, improve or restore personal well-being, I concluded it would be valuable to examine the effectiveness of weekly self-portraiture in promoting the self-awareness and professional effectiveness of art therapists. As a result, this study was designed to obtain insight from the experience of other art therapists regularly using a specific creative intervention as a means of self-reflection and self-supervision. By requiring study participants to reflect on the “self”, I believed it was possible to obtain information concerning whether this specific art intervention increased the individual therapist’s understanding of their self-concept.

 

Prior to proceeding, three particular personal experiences occurred which are relevant to this research. First during a trip to Toronto, I visited the Art Gallery of Ontario where Suzy Lake, my fine arts mentor at the University of Guelph, was holding retrospective show culminating years of photography. In her forward to Introducing Suzy Lake, Gevinson (2014) cites the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition, in 2013, of the selfie as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” (p. 13). I observed that Suzy Lake took selfies for more than forty years, creating many series of images exploring personal identity and performance. Gevinson quotes Lake as saying, “What is really important is that the awareness of all of this becomes a constructive thing so that we’re not victims by our own hands. It is empowering to understand and overcome these gestures. Self-awareness is self-empowering” (p. 13).

 

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Like many therapists, Laurie Ponsford-Hill began as a newly graduated therapist feeling like she could provide her services all day, every day. She realized at a certain point in her career that this was simply not true, and this fueled her determination to understand everything about the need to maintain balance in her life.

 

Laurie earned a Master of Divinity degree, and directed her work towards pastoral care, later earning a Master of Counselling Psychology degree and furthering her Registrations to that of Psychotherapist, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker, and Art Therapist. Her career led her to a greater understanding about herself and her relationships. Laurie continued to broaden her education and went on to complete a doctoral program in Human Relationships at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.

 

Laurie feels fortunate to have attained balance in her work and home life and empathizes with many others engaged in their own personal struggles to attain balance. She has dedicated her career towards helping others on that journey, designing the Self-Supervision program, which was meticulously tested in this clinical research study. The Art of Self-Supervision: Studying the link between self-supervision and self-care chronicles the remarkable findings of this study: that professionals can overcome burnout and improve their health and life balance by focusing on their self-portrait.

 

Laurie is currently the Clinical Director and Supervisor at The Counselling House, in both London and Woodstock, Ontario, an agency that focuses on the supervision of counselling interns and newly graduated therapists, and their development of self-supervision. Laurie maintains a private consulting practice specializing in the development of maintaining healthy relationships with self, work, home, others, God, and the world. 

 

Connect with Laurie Ponsford-Hill

 

WEBSITE http://www.thecounsellinghouse.ca/ 

 

GOODREADS https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18861141.Laurie_Ponsford_Hill 

 

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