We created The Centre for Supervision and Team Development (CSTD) in 1979 in response to being asked to deliver supervision training and continued to do that over the next 10 years until we were asked by the students for a certificate. We created the certificate programme, and this year we have been asked again by students, this time for a diploma. In this event, we wanted to reflect on where this impulse for training and accreditation came from and what its intention was.
Being a training body, we have tried to balance the profession’s need for accountability and responsibility with the wish to give as much student autonomy as possible. This has led us to introduce self and peer assessment, and a form of accreditation through robust conversation and as part of a bigger picture, to ask what it means to encourage self-direction in this work
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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.
