Professional Supervision Training: A Somatic Approach
This professional supervision training is offered in collaboration with the Minded Institute because it reflects a shared commitment to depth, integrity and embodied practice. Over many years of teaching, supervising and training practitioners, I have seen how the work becomes most effective when it moves beyond technique alone and learns to listen to the intelligence of the body, the relational field and the wider context in which the work is held. This partnership allows that approach to be taught clearly, responsibly and within an established training environment that I trust.
The course supports supervisors working across yoga therapy, psychotherapy and integrative therapeutic fields, and responds to a growing need for supervision that can hold complexity with presence. It also allows me to train and mentor those working within Integration Psychotherapy Services (IPS), ensuring that supervision across my wider ecosystem is coherent, ethical and embodied. In this way, the course serves both the evolution of supervision as a discipline and the practical realities of supporting therapists in training and practice.
Course Overview
What is Supervision: Context and History
This day begins by reviewing the rationale for supervision’s emergence within psychological models over the last 120 years. In discussing this history, we explore an array of models that have informed supervision through time and how this specifically supports the unique ideological framework of The Minded model.
The day also begins hands-on practice, providing insight into foundational logistics, how to support new supervisees, and the pivotal role the body plays in supervision.
The Supervisor as a Vehicle of Therapeutic Transformation
As with most psychological therapies, the therapeutic dynamic provides the foreground for new perspectives and insight; supervision is no different. On this second day, we explore the supervisor’s intentional use of self to support the supervisee and cultivate a meaningful, supportive relationship.
Within this framework we investigate power dynamics, self-awareness, and essential considerations in mentoring supervisees as they move toward competence in their field.
Transference and Diversity
Client transference is a core aspect of any type of therapeutic work. This day focuses on supporting supervisors to recognise and work with transference as a mode of transformation for their clients.
We look at common behavioural patterns, the influence of cultural dynamics and family on presentation, and how transference perceptions manifest in therapeutic professionals. We also examine diversity – how individuals and groups contextualise the self in different ways, how this shapes relationships, and how transcultural and transgenerational trauma can be acknowledged and worked with.
Common Themes and Barriers in Therapeutic Work
The history of psychological therapies and supervision highlights recurring developmental patterns in human growth. This day examines how these patterns reveal growth, avoidance, and stagnation – and how awareness of these themes can support supervisees in adjusting their approach with clients.
Using Intuition and Seeing Beneath the Surface
Skills and techniques within psychological processes are vital, as is the ability to sense into intuition. This day cultivates intuitive and somatic awareness to help supervisees look beyond what is spoken and feel into what might lie beneath a client’s words, behaviours, and body posture.
To hone this skill, we explore the role of imagination and creative enquiry. Small supervision groups will also practice live supervision together.
Dream-Body and Liminal Spaces
Drawing on the work of Arnold Mindell, we explore how dreams and liminal spaces promote insight and intuition between supervisor and supervisee, and between therapeutic professionals and their clients. This day includes a deeper exploration of how to adapt and refine the supervision approach to best serve the supervisee’s evolving needs.
Additional Tools and Resources for Supervisors
Sometimes analytical thinking alone can limit intuitive insight. As a training rooted in yoga, this final day explores other forms of wisdom development – including prayer, philosophy, poetry, and other spiritual or expressive mediums – to help supervisees perceive differently and cultivate wisdom.
We also widen our lens to observe large constellations, such as organisational and collective dynamics, and review the additional requirements for accreditation.
Course Structure & Dates
The entire course is live online via Zoom and delivered through a combination of theory and practicum that follows the developmental pathway expressed through the chakra model. Students participate in lectures, dyads, triads, group discussions, processes, and live supervision.
This methodology teaches through embodiment, cultivating the skills required to work with new and experienced supervisors across traditions.
100% attendance is required to graduate.
The course is accredited by the NCIP (National Council for Integrative Psychotherapists) and awards 50 CPD hours.
Please note that attendance does not guarantee certification, which is at the discretion of the Course Director and requires demonstration of the competencies outlined in our learning objectives.
Dates
Part 1: 29th – 31st May 2026
Part 2: 1st – 4th July 2026
All sessions will run from 10am to 6pm [GMT/BST] on each scheduled training day.
Accreditation
The course is accredited by the NCIP (National Council for Integrative Psychotherapists) and provides transferable skills and certification in supervision.
In addition to live teaching, all attendees must meet the following requirements to apply for certification:
Step One:
• Complete a self-assessment and arrange one of two tutorials with Shaura Hall (£70 per 60-minute session) to reflect on personal process.
Step Two:
• Deliver and record 50 hours of supervision within their professional field.
• Undertake 10 hours of supervision to reflect on those sessions (5:1 ratio).
Step Three:
• Complete two enquiry forms – one with a client and the other with your supervisor – to reflect on the supervisory relationship. These forms are reviewed during supervision once all required hours are complete.
Participants have one year from the final training day to complete the requirements.
Investment
For applicants outside of the Minded faculty, the course fee is £1200.
A £400 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your space.
Participants must also pay for 10 sessions of their own supervision as supervisors after the training contact hours are complete.
You can review the Terms and Conditions for courses with the Minded Institute here.
Eligibility
This course is also open to candidates from various healing fields including other areas of yoga therapy, coaches, mentors, ministers, and other individuals established within the helping profession that manage teams or groups and have achieved a recognised qualification in their field equivalent to a higher education (England and Wales) level 4 course. All attendees from outside the Minded Institute faculty must be able to evidence at least 2 years of experience within their profession.
The number of places is limited to 20.
Apply
Eligible candidates can apply to this course through the Minded Institute using the online registration form. If you fulfil the criteria outlined on the form, you will be a sent a payment link following the submission of your form which you can use to pay the course fees in full, or opt for a payment plan.
If you feel that this training is right for you, but you do not meet the eligibility criteria, once you fill out the form you will be given an option to arrange an eligibility consultation to discuss your candidacy.
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You can review the Terms and Conditions for courses with the Minded Institute here.
