In this dialogue, hosted by John Wilson founder of onlinevents, Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet will be looking at how their different spiritual perspectives inform and influence their work as supervisors.
They will explore:
- How we work spiritually as a supervisor with supervisees and clients coming from many different beliefs and religious and non-religious backgrounds?
- How can we discover a new spiritual language out of the relational and systemic context of the work, rather than our personal beliefs?
- How can eco-systemic awareness, expand and ground our spirituality and make it more practical?
- What might be the spirituality needed for human consciousness to evolve to meet the challenges of our time?
- In what ways could supervision be seen as a spiritual practice? And for whom – the supervisor? The supervisee? The profession?
- Whether a spiritual perspective is an eighth eye to add to the seven-eyed model, or pervades all of the seven eyes?
- Spirituality has been described as the great undoing. What part can supervision play in this?
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Presenter
Professor Peter Hawkins is chairman of Renewal Associates, and Director of Centre for Supervision Training and Development and founder of the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling. He is a leading author, writer and researcher in leadership and leadership development, and a thought leader in executive coaching, team coaching and coaching supervision. Over the last 45 years he has worked with leading companies in many parts of the world, co-designing and facilitating major change and organisational transformation projects, as well as coaching boards and leadership teams in commercial and finance companies, the public sector, higher education and third sector organisations. He also teaches coaching supervision and systemic team coaching in over 100 countries. He has authored or co-authored 20 books, the latest being “Beauty in Leadership and Coaching: and its role in transforming human consciousness.” published by Routledge.
Robin Shohet has been supervising for nearly fifty years beginning when he met Peter in 1976 and they staffed a therapeutic community for people coming out of psychiatric hospital. They combined to write Supervision in the Helping Professionsin 1989 which is now in its fifth edition. He co-wrote In Love with Supervision with Joan Shohet and his next book, Supervision as Spiritual Practice, an edited one, is due out in December 2024. He has organised two international conferences on forgiveness and is aiming to do another for 2026. He is a long time student of A Course in Miracles.
