Spirituality & Alchemy in Counselling Supervision

Caring for the Soul in Supervision Space

This experiential 2-day workshop (now expanded from the 1 day version) is designed for counselling supervisors, trainee supervisors and counselling practitioners with at least 3 years post-qualifying experience who wish to explore and integrate spirituality into their current and future supervision practice. The course will explore the mystical aspects of supervision, allowing participants to tap into their innate spirituality and create a more holistic and transformative supervision space. You do not have to have a faith or adhere to any religious philosophy in order to benefit from this course.

Working with the soul/alchemical/mystical experiences in Supervision can be a provocative and vulnerable topic. We will hold a respectful safe space for whatever you wish to bring to the day with us, respecting your beliefs and any spiritual path you might be following.

This course is not interested in showing you WHAT you integrate but pointing you that who you essentially ARE , IS the Integration you SEEK

Aims of the Course

1. Explore the role of spirituality/soul/alchemy in counselling supervision, and share how this is expressed through your work.

2. Uncover ways that you already connect to your spirituality and explore new ways of integrating this.

3. Foster a deeper connection with supervisees/supervisors through spiritual insights and practices.

4. Recognise the importance and personal responsibility of working with your shadow.

5. Understand how to ignite, develop and express you inner wisdom and intuitive capacities.

6. Experience a new lens in supervision through the alchemical framework the Ancient Mother Spiral , that Maria is developing as a lens that can point us to our inherent wholeness

   
   

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Practicalities

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF BOOKING

1. By booking you are confirming that you are either a qualified/trainee clinical supervisor or a counsellor/psychotherapist/ psychologist with at least 3 years of clinical experience.

2. Your place is not confirmed until the deposit is paid.

2. The balance of £185 (or early bird balance £160) is payable at least 1 month before the workshop, i.e. by 21st February 2026, via bank transfer. 

3. The deposit is not refundable but in case of cancellations before 21st of February may be partially transferable to a future event (minus £25  admin fee) - after that date there will be no refunds for any reason.

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Teachers

Maria Kefalogianni is an experienced presence-centered psychotherapist@, counselling supervisor, sound healing practitioner with the voice, and non-dual guide and mystic poet. She has been in practice for 16 years and training psychotherapists and supervisors for 13 years, including lecturing at Salford University. As a creative co-weaver with Spirit and lover of the liminal space, Maria is braided in an ever unfolding process of surrender and power. She writes on the studies of consciousness and has contributed a chapter titled 'Delving into Deeper Consciousness in Person-Centered Practice and Research: The value of Non-Dual Self-Inquiry' to the Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality & Contemplative Studies(September 2024) and is a self published poet "Honey & Ash: Mothers's Alchemy of Burn and Bloom" found on Amazon . She is here to point you to your innate light with pristine clarity and tender heart.  Maria's website is https://www.presencecenteredpsychotherapy.com 

Masha Bennett is a creative trauma psychotherapist and supervisor, integrative sandplay teacher, gong practitioner and Pesso Boyden therapist. She has been training health professionals for 19 years. Having been brought up as an atheist, Masha is on an ongoing journey to re-connect to her innate spirituality which she explores and develops through creativity - sandplay, painting, poetry and song. She published her first collection of healing poetry, The Appearing Act, in 2023. Masha runs an online community for those interested in creative approaches for personal and spiritual development, and helps others to find what makes their heart sing and to nourish their own creativity and playfulness. Masha’s website is https://sandsoundcentre.co.uk

Presence Centered ,holistic, Supervision

A transformational journey for therapists, healers, and coaches who recognize their practice as inseparable from their own conscious evolution

Beyond Traditional Supervision: The spirallic Path of Professional Growth

This is not supervision as problem-solving or compliance checking. This is a container for navigating your professional journey ( we integrate principles from the Ancient Mother Spiral- and the belief that every client challenge becomes a gateway to deeper embodiment, wisdom, and presence. We work from the basis that YOU and your clients are NOT separate individuals and we working backwards to untangle the knots that keep you stuck in loops.

Rooted in the rigorous foundation of Hawkins & Shohet's integrative model and informed by non-dual principles, this approach recognizes that your challenges with clients are not obstacles—they are sacred invitations into your own spiral of conscious evolution.

Holding the Map While You Walk the Terrain

As your supervisor, I serve as a "keeper of the spiral", holding the transformational map while you walk your unique professional terrain. My role is to invite forward the highest knowing that is already alive within you, waiting to be seen and trusted.

The Foundation:

• Clinical Rigor: Grounded in Hawkins & Shohet integrative supervision model and 13 years supervising psychotherapists

• Supervisor Training: Extensive background training other supervisors and therapists for over 13 years

• Non-Dual Wisdom: I hold an embodied Recognition that separation between personal and professional growth is an illusion, our clients are fractal mirrors to our life.

• Spiral Navigation: Using the Ancient Mother Spiral as a framework for professional development- this isn't necessary unless you wish so. You can read more on my developing work on this in my tab "the Ancient Mother Spiral"

The Heart: Presence : the still, knowing center of the spiral that shapes every encounter.

Creative & Embodied Methods: When Words Alone Are Not Enough

Traditional "talking about clients" supervision often misses the subtle, somatic intelligence that lives in your body. We integrate creative and embodied approaches to illuminate your path through the professional spiral:

🌿 Embodied Tracking & Somatic Intelligence

• Becoming aware of how client material moves through your nervous system

• Identifying where you are in your own process through bodily wisdom. We SLOW DOWN so we can HEAR

• Learning to trust the intelligence that lives below conscious thought

• Recognizing countertransference as sacred information, not interference

• Informed by my own entrainement into you and your process, i offer my insights and support you integrate your innate wisdom into conscious tangible ways of working

🎨 Archetypal Reflection & Creative Mapping

• Using imagery and symbols to recognize universal roles you inhabit in your work

• Creative tools for bringing clarity to complex systemic dynamics

• Exploring the wounded healer archetype and your unique medicine

• Art, sandtray, and symbolic representation when words fall short

🌳 Nature-Based & Walk-and-Talk Sessions

• Physically walking in green spaces,

• Letting the earth co-supervise and provide organic wisdom

• Outdoor sessions that honor our embodied, natural way of being. The spiral works wonders here.

• Integration of seasonal cycles and natural rhythms into professional growth

🔥 Liminal Work & Unconscious Process

• I am rooted in the liminal aspects of life.

• Identifying unconscious patterns in the spaces between sessions

• Working in the liminal—what emerges in dreams, synchronicities, somatic responses

• Recognizing how your own spiral stage influences your client work

• Mining the gold in confusion, resistance, and professional "stuckness"

The Alchemical Heart: Transformation Through Presence

At the center of our work and life there is a profound stillness and presence. Our supervision sessions are spacious, kind, honest, and alive, designed to help you access this this centre within yourself, which will open you deeper with your clients AND your personal life.

What We Uncover Together:

• The unconscious stories that shape your therapeutic presence

• How your own unhealed places show up in client work (as medicine, not pathology)

• The relationship between your personal spiral and professional calling

• How to hold complexity without losing your center

The Self-Energy Connection: Drawing from Internal Family Systems, we reconnect you to that universal heart—what IFS calls Self-energy and what I recognize as the unwavering presence at the spiral's core.

This isn't supervision that just supports your work—it transforms how you are at work AND Life.

The Ripple Effect: Healing Beyond the Therapy Room

When a practitioner consciously walks their own inner journey and spiral, the healing ripples far beyond the professional sphere:

• Client Transformation: As you root more deeply into presence, your clients naturally shift with you

• Personal Integration: Often catalyzes profound healing in your personal life

• Ancestral Healing: Disrupts intergenerational patterns through your deepened capacity

• Collective Impact: Your presence becomes medicine for the larger community you serve

As one supervisee expressed: "I came seeking help with a difficult client, but discovered that the presence we practiced together has healed something ancient in my own lineage."

This is not conventional supervision and i see it as one of my unique gifts , to become this bridge maker between contemplative traditions and traditional psychotherapy. To bridge and weave science and spirit. We are both human and beyond human , a divine being here to embody our fullness and highest potential, in service for the ALL. That's where my heart lies.

I offer both face to face and online supervision. My second venue is going to be in the Sand and Sound Centre for which im excited about.

Get in touch for booking your first FREE getting to know each other meeting

Are you standing at a threshold in your life?

You may feel the fermenting of the old- a life, an identity, a way of being- as it begins to fall away, without a clear vision of what is emerging to take its place.

This is the liminal space: the sacred, often disorienting, realm in between. It can often go unchecked without conscious awareness weaved in it.

It is a place of immense potential, for it is here that we can consciously dialogue with the soul and discover our true direction.

I am deeply passionate about this offering.

It is my soul's most potent contribution to life. This offer is for the seers, the visionaries, the creative disruptors, the sensitive changemakers and pavemakers and the spiritual seekers on the edge of deep inner /outer shifts.

This deep mentorship is not about finding quick fixes or powering through with force. It is about truly slowing down and listening to the whispers of the wind, the secrets of the Earth and living life rooted in the liminal ( in-between places). It is a call to be and live with through Presence. It is a guided descent into the rich darkness to discover your inner fire - your Shakti consciousness - as the proper fuel for bringing meaningful change to yourself and the world. It is the path of embodied surrender.

This Journey is for You If:

• You feel a deep soul-stirring for a purpose that is uniquely yours (your dharma), but feel lost on how to find or embody it.

• You are in the midst of a significant life transition, an "ego death," or a crisis of meaning and are seeking a map to navigate the unknown.

• You have had an awakening and need further support in integrating your new insight into your body and soul.

• You are drawn to the mystical and the archetypal—to dreams, symbols, and the wisdom of the body—as valid paths to truth.

• You wish to honour your pain, deeply, and the pain of the world, transforming it into a source of compassionate action.

• You are ready to move beyond the confines of the limiting thinking mind and engage in a direct, heart-based, and poetic inquiry to unlock profound shifts in consciousness.

You can find more here and email me with your FREE initial consultation

This is a group i have created post my awakening experience, and the shift in consciousness to break the sense of isolation i felt. It is a group aimed at psychotherapists coaches and non dual guides, who wish to integrate deeper dimensions of consciousness in their work. we meet monthly for FREE.