Art is a Way of Knowing
There is a difference between making art to “express something”, and making art as a form of inquiry, using creative process as a means of knowledge production – employing art as a way of knowing.
The thing that makes Supervision Studio truly different to other “creative supervision” offerings, is the absolute centering of arts-based practice from beginning to end of our time together.
As a facilitator, I am deeply grounded in the philosophy and values that underpin arts-based practice, and these inform every aspect of the Supervision Studio process.
These philosophy and values have taken shape over decades of practice and my Doctoral research into sharing women’s stories through art. At their core, and in my heart, is an absolute commitment to practice-led inquiry, a reverence for the interconnection of all life, and a belief in the capacity of organic structure to provide a container that is alive with energy and growth.
Supervision Studio has an organic structure. We come together with a shared intention, and the time is organised into opportunities to engage in a number of creative and collaborative, connecting processes.
The content reveals itself as the session progresses.
Each experience that we share share together informs what will happen next, the threads that connect our experiences together, the meanings that will emerge, the shapes our art making will take and the knowledge that will be born.
WATCH MY 2 MINUTE INTRO TO SUPER VISION STUDIO
SUPERVISION STUDIO
with Dr Carla van Laar is an online, small group supervision session where we focus on using creative and collaborative processes as ways to connect, explore, problem solve and gain insight into our work.
SUPERVISION STUDIO
is registered with PACFA as a low-cost supervision option, providing 2.5 hours for $150, equivalent to $60 per hour. Groups are capped at 6 in keeping with PACFA guidelines.
SUPERVISION STUDIO
is suitable for therapists and counsellors of diverse disciplines.
Including arts based activities in online supervision can open up new possibilities that enhance experiences for supervisors and supervisees, including:
*strengthened connectedness and relationships between participants
*integrating experiential and embodied ways of knowing
*making the invisible visible
*creative approaches to problem solving and ethical dilemmas.
SUPERVISION STUDIO
runs on the:
first Sunday of the month from 10am – 12.30pm
AND
second Tuesday of the month 2 – 4.30pm
REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE
YOUR FACILITATOR:
Dr Carla van Laar
Master Creative Arts Therapy
Doctor Therapeutic Arts Practice
PACFA Clinical Registrant 27769
PACFA Accredited Supervisor
Carla (she/her) is an Australian-born woman with European ancestry, a mother, artist and creative arts therapist, living and working in Boon Wurrung country, South-Eastern Victoria. She brings decades of experience working with people and the arts for well-being in community, justice, health, education and independent practice contexts. She has supervised volunteers, students and multi-disciplinary practitioners for over 20 years, and she now works outside of, and on the edge of, institutions.
Carla developed the “Supervision Studio” small group supervision process. This process centralises expanded ways of knowing that include embodied attunement, art-based responding and enactment, underpinned by creative arts, trauma informed, strengths-based and narrative therapeutic approaches. She loves to share creative practices as ways of knowing and being.
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