Music Therapy Supervision

Catherine Warner was programme leader of the MA Music Therapy at the University of the West of England and established the first music therapy supervision training course in the UK. Her clinical practice spans a range of client experiences.Ann Sloboda is Head of Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She is a qualified psychoanalyst and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is registered with the BCP and the HCPC.

Impactful supervision narratives, including improvisation-based facilitation, access supported through online offerings, peer groups shifting power dynamics, affinity spaces of color enhancing holistic growth, and sustained experiences reflecting years of supervision relationship. The meaningfulness of the book is further bolstered by robust co-creation and dialogical exchange between supervisor and supervisees.

• IntroductionCathy Warner and Ann SlobodaPart 1: Training Supervision1 The First Cut is the Deepest: A Conversation between a Music Therapist and their First Training Supervisor, Fifteen Years On.Luke Annesley and Andy Lale2 Spiegel im Spiegel: The Experience of a First-time Placement SupervisorAnna Macken and trainees3 In Correspondence: Co-creating Reflexive Spaces through Improvisation in Music Therapy Supervision SeminarsNicky Haire and traineesPart 2: Diverse Cultural Practices in Supervision4 We Need to Talk about Race: Supervision Through a Racial LensMichaela de Cruz and Davina Vencatasamy5 The Nordoff Robbins Tradition of Supervision: Cultivating Awareness and Courage to Follow where Music and People LeadOksana Zharinova and Simon Procter6 In Search of the Little Blue Girl: A Creative Exploration into the Supervisory Relationship between a Music Therapist Supervisee and a Dramatherapist SupervisorSophie Riga de Spinoza and Mandy Carr7 Group Supervision with the Ahonen Method: Origins and ApplicationsCathy Warner, Adam Kishtainy and Abigail WilliamsPart 3: Supervision during the Pandemic8 Approaching a New Threshold: Integrating Learning from Supervision Pre and Post PandemicMaria Radoje and Sally Pestell 9 Music Therapy Group Supervision in a Brazilian Clinic: Difficulties, Challenges and Learning ExperiencesGustavo Schulz Gattino, Joyce Ribeiro, Jemima Rodrigues, Gabriela Silva, Sarah Caroline Jeronimo da Silva, Tatiana Harumi Komi and Julio Cesar Ramon Oliveira 10 Large Group Peer Supervision: Working Online with the Unthought KnownJoy Rickwood, Hilary Storer and Cathy WarnerPart 4: Reflections on Sustained Experiences of Supervision11 Now and Then: Reflections on Supervisee and Supervisor Perspectives in Early CareerAnn Sloboda and Hilary Moss12 Working with Unconscious Processes as Part of the Music Therapy Supervisor's Task Robin Wiltshire13 Something Different: Exploring the Perspectives and Experience of a Palliative Care Doctor receiving Supervision from a Music TherapistJane Lings14 At the Still PointJulie SuttonList of contributorsSubject indexName index