Training at The Minster Centre

Supervision

The Minster Centre is particularly strong on supervision. Unlike many trainings, where supervision may be a requirement, but one which the student must arrange and pay for separately, a supervision group is built into all the major diploma courses. You, as a student, will be in a Supervision Group from the first year of the diploma course before you have your first training client.


Three Great Things Happen at the Minster Centre
  • One is the actual theory and skills training: it has high standards and a good reputation; it will give you an all-round education, and could lead to an MA.
     
  • The second is your own self-development, taking place through your personal therapy and the experiential training group which is part of the training: this develops not only your own self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-understanding, but also your ability to relate to other people, both on and off the course.
     
  • The third is your own client practice and the experience of supervision which backs this up.
     

Supervision Group Work

Supervision groups begin by working as skills intensives, enabling you to develop and practice skills, give and receive feedback and support. You will then move into smaller groups where you will have the opportunity to listen to the work of other students who may be more advanced than yourself. You can learn a great deal from this, as well as from work with your own training clients.

The supervisor will be interested in your client, but will be more interested in you. He or she will be working to support your learning. You will learn the difference between personal development (with the help of your therapist) and professional development (with the help of your supervisor).

Just as in your own therapy, you can throw away these opportunities through being too defensive, too guarded, too reluctant to take risks. Just as in your own therapy, openness is all: first of all openness to your own experience and your own awareness, and then, when you are ready for that, openness to your supervisor and what he or she has to offer.




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