Supervision and Research

Ken Evans, Eurocps Co-Director  has been supervising counsellors and psychotherapists for over 20 years and together with Maria Gilbert is co-author of the book Psychotherapy Supervision; An Integrative Relational Approach published by Open university Press in 2000, which has been published in five languages.

Eurocps provides a training programme in supervision run by Ken Evans and Joanna Hewitt Evans in 2 x five day intensive workshops and with  supporting  teaching supervision spread over twelve months. The programme is  also  taught in collaboration with, and partly or wholly located, in other European training centres. Three such programmes have been successfully completed in Malta, Greece and Serbia.

N.B. The 2011 course will be held in France

The course is regularly reviewed in both content and structure to provide training at the leading edge of developments in Europe.  The course draws upon the experience of several Eurocps Associates and builds on preceding courses that have run successfully  each year for  20 years.

Diploma in Supervision  2011 - residential training in supervision over 2 x five days workshops.

Curriculum content:

Workshop 1.  (duration 5 days)

An overview of the field.  

June 29  to July 3  2011,  cost 875 euro.

•  Functions, definitions, models and  contracts.
•  Relational – developmental approach to supervision: the past in the  present influencing the future.
•  transference, counter transference and parallel process in supervision. 

Workshop 2.  (duration 5 days) also at La Volée in France

Creating and maintaining an effective learning environment.

September 14 to 18,  2011, cost 875 euro

•  Learning and shame;
•  The wider field – culture, ecology and the transpersonal dimensions of supervision.
•  Ethical dilemmas and the role of the supervisor.

Each participant will make a presentation to the whole group on an aspect of their work as a supervisor, drawing on their experience and course curriculum.

Participants who wish to achieve the Diploma in Supervision will need to produce a paper  (theme negotiated with Course Leaders) and submit a tape transcript from a supervision session with a supervisee. Supervision  hours and supervision of  supervision hours are required over a period of not less than 12 months and are  negotiated between course participants and  Course Leaders. 

Total fee payable is 1,750 euro paid in two separate installments of 850 euro at the commencement each of the two workshops.

Recommended texts:

Gilbert M and Evans, K (2000) Psychotherapy Supervision: An Integrative-Relational Approach, OUP

Hawkins, P & Shohet, R (2000) Supervision in the Helping Professions, 2nd edition, OUP

Application Forms

There are two ways to fill out the course application form, either:

Complete our online form here, OR

Download and print out a .PDF form, complete it by hand and return it by post:

Download PDF Application Form

Reference Forms

You will also need Reference Forms. One is to be completed by each of your two referees. You can download and print this form here: PDF Reference Form

Notes

To view the PDF forms you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, it can be downloaded if necessary for free here.

Please return postal forms to:

Ken Evans

44 Rue De L'Europe

Ger, Normandy

50850  France

Research Education

In the 1990’s Ken Evans created three Masters programmes in psychotherapy that included a significant research component and a research dissertation. He has also devised and led a Doctoral programme in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy to encourage clinicians in the field to engage in research related to their clinical practice. Ken has  taught qualitative research to psychotherapists outside the United Kingdom in the Czech Republic, Norway, and Italy. Recently he became an Academic Consultant and Academic Advisor to the Metanoia/Middlesex university  doctorate programme. In 2009 Ken co-authored a  research book with Dr. Linda Finlay:

Finlay, L and Evans, K (2009) Relational Centred Research for Psychotherapists: exploring meanings and purpose. Wiley Blackwell

Dr Paul Barber is a leading exponent of qualitative research within a holistic frame, and has published extensively and is currently member of staff of the Metanoia  doctoral programme based in London, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Middlesex.

Joanna Hewitt Evans has recently published two research articles and  until November 2009  ran the Gestalt training programme at the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute, UK, where research methods are a key component of the training programme.

Together with Ken Evans and Paul Barber, Joanna runs a research training workshop for trainers/tutors/supervisors who wish to extend their knowledge and teaching skills in this important area. This course can be run as a one off workshop over three days or combined with a follow up 2 or 3 day workshop, if required. This workshop has been successfully delivered at training centres  in the UK, Czech Republic, Norway and Italy.