The title is taken from the book by James Carse called Finite and Infinite Games
The aim of a finite game is to achieve a goal, a resolution, a solution, an outcome. The infinite game is playing for the love of it.
If we see supervision as an infinite game, we move into a space of curiosity, where whatever is brought to supervision does not need to be fixed but can be lovingly held in the space between supervisor and supervisee.
Supervising in this way contradicts a fear driven zeitgeist where the demand for a solution inhibits a presence where something fresh can emerge. Both parties can see whatever is brought with fresh eyes. – super vision.
Course Content
Organisation
Independent Supervisors Network hosts International Supervision Week with Onlinevents
Presenter
Joan co-founded CSTD in 1979 and works as a trainer, supervisor, psychotherapist and mediator. Her particular interest is in working with systems and using organisational and family constellations work. She has been running supervision training and working with teams, in particular in the NHS and voluntary sector, for over 40 years. Her passion is in enabling people to find the work they love and love the work they do. She is an active member of Playback Theatre and co-author of “The Boxing Clever Cookbook” (2002).
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.
