Music Therapy Supervision

Catherine Warner is programme leader of the MA Music Therapy at the University of the West of England. She runs a training course in music therapy supervision; the only training in the UK dedicated to these practices. 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.

Introduction
Cathy Warner and Ann Sloboda

Part 1: Training Supervision

1 The First Cut is the Deepest: A Conversation between a Music Therapist and their First Training Supervisor, Fifteen Years On.
Luke Annesley and Andy Lale

2 Spiegel im Spiegel: The Experience of a First-time Placement Supervisor
Anna Macken and trainees

3 In Correspondence: Co-creating Reflexive Spaces through Improvisation in Music Therapy Supervision Seminars
Nicky Haire and trainees

Part 2: Diverse Cultural Practices in Supervision

4 We Need to Talk about Race: Supervision Through a Racial Lens
Michaela de Cruz and Davina Vencatasamy

5 The Nordoff Robbins Tradition of Supervision: Cultivating Awareness and Courage to Follow where Music and People Lead
Oksana Zharinova and Simon Procter

6 In Search of the Little Blue Girl: A Creative Exploration into the Supervisory Relationship between a Music Therapist Supervisee and a Dramatherapist Supervisor
Sophie Riga de Spinoza and Mandy Carr

7 Group Supervision with the Ahonen Method: Origins and Applications
Cathy Warner, Adam Kishtainy and Abigail Williams

Part 3: Supervision during the Pandemic

8 Approaching a New Threshold: Integrating Learning from Supervision Pre and Post Pandemic
Maria Radoje and Sally Pestell

9 Music Therapy Group Supervision in a Brazilian Clinic: Difficulties, Challenges and
Learning Experiences
Gustavo 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 Known
Joy Rickwood, Hilary Storer and Cathy Warner

Part 4: Reflections on Sustained Experiences of Supervision
11 Now and Then: Reflections on Supervisee and Supervisor Perspectives in Early Career
Ann Sloboda and Hilary Moss

12 Working with Unconscious Processes as Part of the Music Therapy Supervisor's Task
Robin Wiltshire

13 Something Different: Exploring the Perspectives and Experience of a Palliative Care Doctor receiving Supervision from a Music Therapist
Jane Lings

14 At the Still Point
Julie Sutton

List of contributors
Subject index
Name index