Supervision Studio
$150 – 2.5 hours ONLINE
Supervision Studio Sundays 10.00am – 12.30pm
Art based and experiential methods for reflective practice
Small groups in an online studio environment
This is the supervision you have been dreaming of
– attend from ANYWHERE!
Supervision Studio is a unique, art based form of supervision developed and facilitated by Dr Carla van Laar.
We use art based and experiential methods including visual arts, story and drama using improvisation and our our imaginations. You bring the content – the most current issues from your practice!
This facilitated group is a safe, supportive, confidential and CREATIVE space for embodied reflective practice.
Supervision Studio welcomes Art Therapists, Holistic Counsellors and Practitioners working in the helping professions. No prior artistic training is necessary, simply a willingness to engage in creative methods, trust in the process and a love of experiential ways of knowing.
From June – December 2021 I am running two sessions a month to increase accessibility, however I suggest that you have a look, choose some dates and book in quickly. I won’t invoice you until closer to each date, but I will reserve your place
Dr Carla van Laar
Artist | Art Therapist
Master of Creative Arts Therapy
Doctor of Therapeutic Arts Practice
Registered Supervisor and Professional Member ANZACATA
Carla van Laar is a painter and therapeutic arts practitioner from Australia. Born in Brisbane, Carla is first generation Australian on her Dutch grandparents side, and 7th generation through her maternal bloodline who were mostly English and came to Australia in the early colonisation of the 1800s. Her mother grew up in remote North Queensland and most of her extended family live up North. Carla currently lives and works in Victoria, residing between Wurrundjeri country in Melbourne, and Boon Wurrung country in Inverloch, paying deep respects to the First Peoples of the Kulin Nations whose land was never ceded and will always be Aboriginal land. Identifying as a cisgender woman, Carla is passionately disinterested in socially constructed identities that disempower anyone. Carla has over 25 years’ experience working with people and the arts for health and well-being in community organisations, justice, health and education contexts.
Carla’s first book “Bereaved Mother’s Heart” was published in 2007 and broke social taboos about maternal grief. From 2008-18 she established and ran an independent art therapy studio and gallery in Melbourne. Her Doctoral research has been published in her new book, “Seeing Her Stories” and continues the mission to make subjugated stories visible, through art.
Carla has lectured and supervised Art Therapy students at RMIT, MIECAT and currently the IKON Institute. She is a practicing artist and in 2018 received an Artist Fellowship at RMIT’s creative research lab, “Creative Agency”. She insists on being part of a creative revolution in which art re-embodies lived experience, brings us to our senses, makes us aware of the interconnectedness of all life and is an agent of social change.
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