New Mythopoetic Mentoring Supervision Group

This supervision group is designed for practitioners and trainees who are interested in cultivating a symbolic/somatic approach which brings both our clinical as well as personal/professional insights and inquiries into a "dreaming together" container.

This is an invitation to participate in a mythopoetic group process in revisioning supervision as the laboratory for crafting an archetypal lens through which we can see beyond the literal and into the imaginal.

The group meets once a month for 2.5 hours.

Please contact Susanna at susanna.ruebsaat@outlook.com for inquiries. We look forward to hearing from you. Offers required supervision hours for registration for RCC and BCATR.

Fee: $80.00 per 2.5 hr. session.

“When the soul wants to experience something. She throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it” (Meister Eckhardt).

Together we are exploring how we practice Deep democracy (Arnold Mindell) and Archetypal activism as cornerstones in our journey of individuation. And how this translates into our practice with patients/clients.

Clinical Supervision

Clinical supervision is offered for counsellors and art therapist for required hours for registration with BC Clinical Counsellors’ Association, BC Art Therapy Association and the Canadian Art Therapy Association. Dr. Ruebsaat is an associate faculty member of the Masters in Counselling Program at City University and acts as a doctoral mentor for instructors.

Mythopoetic Mentoring in Supervision:

Stepping into the relationship of supervisor and practitioner is analogous to the therapist client relationship, seeing the symbolic and mythopoetic patterns resonating in the imaginal intersubjective field.

Working with the disturber in the transference/counter-transference phenomenon can take place in supervision or “mentoring” of practitioners to increase awareness of the deeply rooted issues arising from the archetypal dynamic of the “other” at the core of both the personal as well as the collective disturbances.

In the disquiet of the countertransference the disturber within is intimating an unconscious call for a change of attitude. Supervision includes this intimate inner figure personifying an archetypal phenomenon entering the imaginal field and—in an atmosphere of support and mirroring of the professional-self—one is invited to be guided by the contents of the counter transference itself. Symbolically, the disturber is transformational, particularly once its expression has begun impacting the intersubjective field.

The disturber has much to say. It often has many demands and criticisms practitioners hear as a subliminal narrative that can disrupt their confidence and competence as professionals. From the perspective of the proposed model of mythopoetic mentoring the practices of 1) deep democracy, 2) archetypal action and 3) seeing symbolically are introduced as tools for working directly with the disturber as it arises in response to the conscious and unconscious guests of the transference phenomenon.