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CD/TAPE ONE
Practising
- Super-vision
- Extra-vision
- Extending-vision

A 2004 Presentation for the Supervision Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

The Supervision/Consultation Relationship
This presentation will focus on four areas:

• The use of the contributor position in super-vision/consultation relationships. The contributor position is enacted differently to either the objective observer position or the subjective position.
• The creation of dogmatic positions through an emphasis on textual knowledges. This occurs when supervisors/consultants and teachers privilege text over the activity or the doing of therapeutic conversations.
• The negotiation of the power relation within the super-vision/consultation relationship.
• The use of prismatic dialogue in super-vision/consultation. I believe the use of prismatic dialogue orientates us towards a discovery process. This is in contrast to approaches which act to replicate known professional knowledges through the supervision/consultation process.

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CD/TAPE TWO
RE-VISIONING THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP: WORKING IN THE PRESENT MOMENT

When we consider the question, ‘What contributes to successful therapy?’ there has been considerable evidence that the relationship between people (therapist and client) makes a significant difference. I believe the therapeutic relationship provides us with a significant experiential resource. Through a relational discovery process I believe we can discover
and create difference and thus change in the present moment. This difference can be realised more fully through using relational language-making strategies to collaboratively explore this experiential resource available in the therapeutic relationship.

Central to this exploration is the construction of a therapeutic relationship understanding boundary that surrounds us rather than sits between us. Within these bounds I can identify and re-search the experiences we (therapist/client) have in order to generate a living practice of collaboration, respect and discovery.

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CD/TAPE THREE
WORKING WITH RELATIONSHIP INJURIES
Do you find yourself avoiding couple work? Have you ever thrown your hands in the air after a couple session while asking yourself, ‘What else could I have done?’ This presentation will engage you in an exploration of a relational way of talking with couples which allows the often difficult couple concerns to be investigated more fully and productively.

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CD/TAPE FOUR
NEGOTIATING THE GENDER EDGE: WOMEN WORKING WITH MEN
Throughout my years of teaching and supervision I have noticed that many women counsellors are mystified at the different responses they have while counselling men -responses, such as, ‘placating, disguised lecturing, scrutinising for fairness’. This workshop will examine how these and other responses get in the way of fully understanding men’s experiences and the ways in which gender is shaping their lives and the lives of partners and family.

Whether you work directly with men or are working indirectly with men as the partners, fathers, sons of women clients, this one day workshop offers alternative responses and specific counselling skills to facilitate openness and curiosity on the gender edge.

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CD/TAPE FIVE
MOVING INTO MANAGEMENT: WOMEN WORKING WITH POWER

If you are a new team leader or a more experienced head of department who is interested in learning new ways of navigating the practicalities of ethically leading others, this workshop will assist you to identify current management styles and hidden agendas (you and the teams!) and emphasise the steps that move the theoretical ideas of collaboration into a living management practice.

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CD/TAPE 6
CONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE
IN SUPER-VISION
This presentation focused on —

• • Using prismatic dialogue in super-vision.
• • Re-searching direct experience by taking up the inside/outside position.
• • Emphasising relational accountability rather than one-way accountability.
  • Exposing the operation of power within super-vision and therapeutic relationships.
  • Using the imagination as a resource.

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CD/TAPE 7
Imaginatively Entering Children’s Worlds:
Essential narrative tools for working with children,
young people and families

In this new double CD series you will be introduced to the skills that will enable you to develop a narratively influenced interview style. Johnella uses two 'externalising' exercises to demonstrate how she discovers change-making possibilities with children, young people and family members.

In the first exercise she demonstrates how to talk with a child who is 'worried about school' while in the second exercise she demonstrates how to work with a teenager who is 'in trouble' at school.

In this new double CD Series Johnella also reminds us of the imaginative abilities we can use to bring alive characters like George. George is a rather worn hippopotamus, who whispers 'this is the stopping thumb-sucking secret' to a 3 year old?

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For customers purchasing three or more of the CDs, there is a 15% discount

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For all CDs, both individual and bundle orders, please add NZ$10.00 postage/shipping charge for all orders outside of New Zealand.

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