Supervision Training Program Symposium 2025

When Conversations Become Difficult:
Enactments, Parallel Process and Cultural Considerations in Supervision

Saturday, January 25, 2025
9:00 am to 4:30 pm PST

Through a combination of lecture, film, and discussion this symposium will explore how supervisors meet the difficult moments that sometimes arise in supervisory relationships. In the morning we will explore the evolution of the concept of parallel process and its relationship to enactment, and how these concepts can sometimes clarify stressful events in the supervisory relationship. In the afternoon we will consider additional contemporary clinical concepts that help supervisors remain open in the face of relational tensions, including those created by difference. By grounding ourselves in the presenter’s filmed supervision session and the examples of our panel, we hope to bring abstract concepts to life so that participants may connect the material to their own experience.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to compare a relational model of supervision to a more classical model of supervision.

• Participants will be able to describe the relationship between parallel process and enactment in supervision.

• Participants will be able to explain how supervisors’ openness to their unconscious participation in the supervisory relationship contributes to effective supervision.

• Participants will be able to list two reasons why it is valuable to talk about race in supervision.

• Participants will be able to elaborate on how a relational model of supervision supports engagement in difficult conversations as well as fosters dialogue around differing experiences and identities.

Presenters

Primary presenter Joan Sarnat, PhD, psychoanalyst and pioneer in the field of supervision will be joined by a panel of senior supervisors: Toby Eastman, LCSW; Sara Grunstein, LCSW; and Tala Ghantous, LCSW.

Joan E. Sarnat, PhD, ABPP is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and member of the Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and a supervisor at The Psychotherapy Institute. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Sarnat has been publishing and teaching about supervision since 1992. She co-authored her first book, The Supervisory Relationship (Guilford Press, 2001) with Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea. Her second book, Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies, (American Psychological Association, 2016), was published in tandem with a DVD, Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Supervision, which features Dr. Sarnat conducting a supervisory session. Dr. Sarnat is in consultative and supervisory practice in Berkeley, California.

Tala Ghantous is a bilingual, Arabic/English speaking, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, living and working in Oakland, CA. Utilizing her experiences as an immigrant and parent to help families create their own narratives for healing, for 20 years Tala has offered early childhood mental health services to communities impacted by a multitude of psychosocial stressors, She is an avid reader and has extensive trainings in trauma-informed psychotherapy models which guide her approach to her work with children and their parents and caregivers. She utilizes the Facilitated Attuned Interactions (FAN) model for emotional regulation and the Circle of Security model to help strengthen primary relationships and support the development of young children. Tala provides training, consultation and clinical supervision and she partners with multidisciplinary agencies to support integrating a reflective model into their supervisory structures.

Toby Eastman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in community mental health as well as private practice in Oakland, CA. She has more than 30 years of experience providing direct service, supervision and program management in non-profit social service and community mental health, including work with families living in poverty, homeless youth, as well as extensive experience working with children and families involved in the child welfare system. Ms. Eastman has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Early Childhood Mental Health. Her professional experiences in the non-profit world influence her depth oriented, interpersonal and socio-politically informed approach to private psychotherapy. Ms. Eastman is a graduate of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis One Year Program in Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World and The Post Graduate Training Program at The Psychotherapy Institute.

Sara Grunstein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker whose life’s work focus has been in the Infant Mental Health field: supporting parents and their babies, as they get to know each other, to foster a secure relationship, within a community mental health context, and halt the intergenerational transmission of trauma. She provided services in the community as home visitor, clinical supervisor and reflective practice trainer for over 30 years. She is endorsed by the California Center for Infant, Family, and Early Childhood Mental Health as mental health specialist, reflective practice facilitator II, and mentor, and certified at the supervisor level by the Erikson Institute in Chicago in the FAN (Facilitating Attuned Interactions). Ms Grunstein immigrated twice and has devoted her professional life to integrating social justice and multiculturalism into a contemporary relational psychodynamic approach.

Location

Live at The David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704) and Streaming
A Zoom invite will be sent out a few days prior to the course date. Please check for invite the day before the course date, if you do not see the invite please check your spam folder. Administrative staff ensure that every registrant is sent the meeting information. If a registrant does not attend due to not finding the course link, they will be given credit to use with in 1 year for a future CE course at TPI.

Fee if Registration Completed: Early Bird by 12/31/24 after 12/31/24
TPI Members $130 $155
Nonmembers $155 $180
Students/Associates/ Comm. Mental Health Workers $100 $115
TPI Supervisors/STP Committee Members/Program Supervisors/Alumni $80 $100

Lunch Options: Participants can purchase lunch with their registration for $20 by 1/20/25, bring their own lunch, or purchase lunch at the locations near the Brower Center during the lunch hour. Lunch purchased with registration includes a sandwich, chips, and beverage options. Sandwich options include Vegan/Vegan GF, Turkey BLT/Turkey BLT GF, or Roast Beef/Roast Beef GF.

CE: 6 Credits. $5 additional fee per CE credit (i.e. 6 CE credits is $30 total). Attendees must participate in live sessions in-person or via zoom to receive CE's. The Psychotherapy Institute is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs (provider number PSY005). The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts continuing education credit granted by the California Psychological Association or by any of its Approved Providers. The Psychotherapy Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content (see Registration and Course Policies).

Fall 2024 Symposium

In a Human Voice:
Exploring the Ethics of Care, Resistance, and Liberation

with Carol Gilligan, PhD
Saturday, September 21, 2024
9:00 am to 4:00 pm PST

In this daylong symposium, Carol Gilligan will discuss her new book In a Human Voice, her current research project “Breaking the Bargain: Strengthening Healthy Resistance and Courage in Girls, Part II,” and her method of listening. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with her around key findings of over 40 years of research, notably that the “different voice” of care ethics, although initially heard as a “feminine” voice, is in fact a human voice, that the voice it differs from is a patriarchal voice (bound to gender binaries and hierarchies), and that where patriarchy is in force or enforced, the human voice is a voice of resistance and care ethics an ethics of liberation. Understanding the psychology of voice and relationship along with the political and cultural ramifications of having a voice and living in connection (with oneself and with others) can guide us in resisting moral injury and freeing democracy from patriarchy.  The symposium will include a demonstration of the listening guide method, including how to listen for voices that speak at the margins or are held in silence, and how to hear the difference between a cover voice and an under voice. The day will close with a case presentation and discussion with Laura Goldberger, LMFT.

Learning objectives:

1. To explain the difference between initiation and development.

2. To discuss three meanings of “resistance”

3. To differentiate a cover voice from an under voice.

Carol Gilligan, PhD is best known as the author of In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution.”  Her most recent book, In a Human Voice, was named a best book of 2023 by The Times Literary Supplement and called “essential reading for our times.”  Her other books include Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development (with Lyn Mikel Brown), a New York Times notable book of the year in 1992; The Birth of Pleasure; Kyra: A Novel; Joining the Resistance; Why Does Patriarchy Persist (with Naomi Snider) and Darkness Now Visible (with David Richards). She was a member of the Harvard faculty for over 30 years and held the university’s first chair in Gender Studies. She is currently a University Professor at NYU, where she initiated the Radical Listening Project. In 1996 Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential Americans. 

Case Presentation by Laura Goldberger, LMFT, a longtime TPI Supervisor who has private practice in Berkeley.

Date and Time: September 21, 2024 from 9:00am to 4:00pm PST including 1-hour lunch break (meal available for additional fee - make selection when registering)

Course Location:  Live at The David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704) and Streaming

Fees

Fee if Registration Completed: Early Bird by 08/20/24 after 08/20/24
TPI Members $140 $165
Nonmembers $160 $185
Students/Associates/ Comm. Mental Health Workers $100

Lunch Options: Participants can purchase lunch with their registration for $20 by 9/16/24, bring their own lunch or purchase lunch at the locations near the Brower Center during the lunch hour. Lunch purchased with registration includes a sandwich, chips and beverage options. Sandwich options include Vegan/Vegan GF, Turkey BLT/Turkey BLT GF, or Roast Beef/Roast Beef GF.

CE: 6 Credits. $5 additional fee per CE credit (i.e. 6 CE credits is $30 total). Attendees must participate in live sessions in-person or via zoom to receive CE's. The Psychotherapy Institute is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs (provider number PSY005). The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts continuing education credit granted by the California Psychological Association or by any of its Approved Providers. The Psychotherapy Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content (see Registration and Course Policies).

Registration Closes: Thursday, September 19, 2024 3:00pm