SUPERVISION AS A SPACE OF CREATIVE FREEDOM –CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE

Abstract

The concept of Creative Freedom was passed on by Gestalt psychology, where it still serves as the basis for a scientific approach to clarifying the conditions for creative processes in human beings. It is not essentially about promoting, forming, or even training any abilities, but about supporting, and providing conditions under which such abilities can unfold in living processes, as they are given in psychotherapy and supervision. In this article this concept will be explained in more detail, its conditions will be described and for the first time applied to the special situation of supervision. A close examination of the application of this concept to the field of supervision has shown that its implementation can be quite fruitful.