PCP Supervision Groups 2025
There are three potential PCP supervision groups detailed below. All three groups have some shared terms and conditions:
Scope: Participants must have existing arrangements for regular supervision of their work, because it will not cover all cases
Group Membership: Participants must have completed a Foundation Course in PCP, or have an equivalent working knowledge of PCP through other means. In order for everyone
to be able to speak openly, on an equal basis, and to maintain confidentiality, people from the same team, friendship group or workplace will not be in the same group.
Time: The groups will meet for 2 hour slots online using Zoom. The link will be sent to participants who are asked to log on 10 minutes in advance in case of updates, in order to
start the session promptly.
Confidentiality: It will be important to protect the confidential information of the groups. Therefore, you will need a private space from which to join the group session and no
recording is permitted.
Notes: Each participant will take the notes they need for their own practice so they have it in the format that makes best sense to them.
Fee: Payments are made directly from supervisee to supervisor (not via another organisation) and must be made in advance to confirm a place, following the receipt of an
invoice. In the past, arrangements with some organisations have been complex and sometimes very slow and difficult to complete, so this is not an option. N.b. some support
with the costs of PCP education maybe available from the Personal Construct Education Trust.
Refunds: The dates and times will be fixed and no refunds are available for missed sessions. In the unusual event that the supervisor has to miss a session, an alternative
date will be arranged with participants.
Potential PCP Supervision Groups
Richard Casebow, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and Supervisor
I am a qualified UKCP registered PCP psychotherapist and supervisor, who has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 30 years and gave the F.M. Alexander
Lecture in 2022. In my professional work I bring the two together to work with making the pre-verbal co-ordination of a person’s core role into awareness to allow
for embodied transitions that allow a person to be more fully in relation with themselves and others.
Supervision Group
A supervision group for people interested in exploring their work in terms of movement and role play. Key constructs used for exploration will be self-other
constancy in role relationships and the spread of dependencies in being and action. The framework for for exploring movement will focus on the importance of how
constriction and dilation are embodied within a person’s core role, as well as the construing of threat, fear, anxiety, guilt and aggressiveness within their movement.
This framework will draw on the work of F.M. Alexander with regard to how habitual movements impact on a person’s vital functioning through their impact on how they
breathe. It will invite participants to look at their own practice and client’s construing through what allows for the free flowing movement characteristic of optimal
functioning.
Individual Supervision
Individual supervision is also available and can be arranged by contacting me directly.
Contact: richard@counsellingconversations.com
Websites
Psychotherapy: www.counsellingconversations.com
Alexander Technique: www.edinburghalexandercentre.com/
Additional Terms and Conditions for Group Supervision with Richard Casebow
Schedule: The group will meet four times a year, either on a Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, and outside the main school holidays.The group will have a fixed
membership of 4 participants to allow all participants to engage fully.
Fee: Payment of £200 per participant per year, payable in advance and in GBP.
Frequency: The group will meet 4 times and then further meetings or groups may be available.
Expectation for preparation: In order for the group to work well, participants must be willing to bring material for the sessions. So I can have an idea of how we might structure the session and allocate time, participants will need to let me know 24 hours beforehand if there is something would like to discuss. This only needs to be a sentence and does not need any more detail.
Heather Moran, Chartered Clinical and Educational Psychologist
PCP supervision offer
I am able to offer supervision to support professionals using PCP in their work with children and young people, and the adults around them. This could suit psychologists, counsellors, social workers and youth workers, or another professional working directly with young people.
The aim of my supervision sessions is to apply a PCP lens to the issues arising from the supervisee’s case work. This could include thinking about how to explore construing further, how a case could be formulated within PCP theory, or a PCP ‘take’ on the impact of an aspect of work on the supervisee. It could also include honing skills with particular techniques, such as laddering, in preparation for a session with a client, or as a review after a session which was tricky.
This can be on a 1-1, or in a group if there is a place available.
Supervision would not be suitable for those who are only seeking teaching but 1-1 or small group teaching can be arranged on a one-off basis. Email me if this is what you are looking for: heatherjmoran@icloud.com.
Individual supervision
1-1 supervision will be offered in 1 hour sessions, booked a session at a time without a fixed frequency. Get in touch: heatherjmoran@icloud.com.
Group supervision
The group will meet four times across one financial year, with sessions spread across the months, avoiding the main school holidays.
The group will have a fixed membership of 4 participants to allow all participants to engage fully.
Terms and conditions for group supervision
Fee: Payment of £200 per participant per year, payable in advance and in GBP.
Frequency: The group will meet 4 times and then further meetings or groups may
be available.
Expectation for preparation: In order for the group to work well, participants must be willing to bring material for the sessions. So I can have an idea of how we might
structure the session and allocate time, participants will need to let me know 24 hours beforehand if there is something would like to discuss. This only needs to be
a sentence and does not need any more detail.
Useful resources: For using PCP techniques, the PCP Pocketbook will be handy to have (available on Amazon here https://amzn.eu/d/gLlHUXB). For application of
the theory, a summary of the main PCP concepts, with illustrations, PCP in Pictures might be useful (available as a free download here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/
qspq4a3i67 or for a low price on Amazon – print or Kindle here: https://amzn.eu/d/imxpSEV
Group supervision
The group will meet four times across one financial year, with sessions spread across the months, avoiding the main school holidays.
The group will have a fixed membership of 4 participants to allow all participants to engage fully.
Terms and conditions for group supervision
Fee: Payment of £200 per participant per year, payable in advance and in GBP.
Frequency: The group will meet 4 times and then further meetings or groups may be available.
Expectation for preparation: In order for the group to work well, participants must be willing to bring material for the sessions. So I can have an idea of how we might
structure the session and allocate time, participants will need to let me know 24 hours beforehand if there is something would like to discuss. This only needs to be
a sentence and does not need any more detail.
Useful resources: For using PCP techniques, the PCP Pocketbook will be handy to have (available on Amazon here https://amzn.eu/d/gLlHUXB). For application of
the theory, a summary of the main PCP concepts, with illustrations, PCP in Pictures might be useful (available as a free download here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/
qspq4a3i67 or for a low price on Amazon – print or Kindle here: https://amzn.eu/d/imxpSEV
Sally Robbins, Clinical Psychologist
I am a Clinical Psychologist, registered with the BPS and HCPC. I have been involved in PCP since the 1980’s and completed my training in PCP Counselling and Psychotherapy around twenty years ago. I worked in the English NHS for 37 years, and since leaving have had a small private practice and am involved in voluntary work. My experience is largely with Adults and Older People.
Proposed PCP Supervision Group
I am interested to join with you to explore how PCP can help in our everyday lives. When people finish a PCP Foundation Course, they generally have just that; some foundations. These get added to all the other ideas, theories, techniques, and habits we have acquired in our working, and personal, lives. Hopefully they prove useful, but making them into some kind of integrated, coherent whole takes time
and practice.
Kelly described this position as ‘Accumulative Fragmentalism’, (truth is collected piece by piece, like a jigsaw) and yes, I do know that yet another new label will put some of you off! What he was talking about was something like what I have heard called ‘eclecticism’; meaning that you take bits from all over, and are open to new ideas. That is fine in its way, as a contrast to having a closed mind, perhaps.
However, it can leave us in a permanent muddle, using new ideas and techniques in isolation and not knowing how to connect them with what we already ‘know’ and do. Kelly contrasted Accumulative Fragmentalism with Constructive Alternativism, – “however the quest for truth will turn out in the end, the events we face today are subject to as great a variety of constructions as our wits will enable us to contrive”.
I think the point about PCP being such an overarching theory is that it helps me to navigate around what I have accumulated in this necessarily fragmented fashion over the years. I don’t have to reject new approaches and ideas, if they promise to add to my repertoire, but I have a way of integrating them into the rest of my understandings of the world. Of course, PCP also stretches down to the everyday nitty gritty, through derived techniques, which is a definite bonus!
There are all sorts of areas of PCP which we cannot shoehorn into the short Foundation Course, which we are also likely to begin to explore during the group
sessions. Talking it all through with others definitely helps with this process, so, if you fancy exploring this with me, get in touch: sally.covpcp@gmail.com
Having thought about the practicalities of this, I propose:
- A group of 5 people, myself included, hopefully with some diversity of
background and interest. - A willingness to each contribute issues and topics for discussion, and to engage
in respectful and curious exploration together. I would ask for items for each
session a few days before, in order to help manage the time. - A programme of 5 two hour sessions spread over a year, to which we would all
commit. These would probably be held on Monday or Tuesday afternoons, or on
Tuesday evenings. - A fee of £250 for the year, payable in advance.
- That during our meetings we all have to hand both the 2022 version of the
Foundation Guide, and the Pocketbook of PCP techniques, so that if (probably
when) we are discussing something covered in these two books we can literally
be ‘on the same page’.