Online CPD: Professional Supervision Training – A Somatic Approach

About Shaura Hall

Shaura Hall is the Founder of the Pilamaya Centre for Integration Psychotherapy and Director of Integration Psychotherapy®. She is a Yoga Therapist (C-IYAT), holds a diploma in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy (NCIP), a Certificate in Supervision (CTSD) and is an Interfaith Minister (ROSIM). Her training includes over 1000 hours of Yoga Therapy, Yoga Teacher Training and further training in the Health Sciences (CertHE). She is a Yoga Therapy for Addictions Specialist and has supervised Minded supervisors for over 5 years in her role as Lead Supervisor for the Minded Institute.

Delivery

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.

Course Contents

Day One: 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 with hands-on practice, providing insight into foundational logistics, how to support new supervisees, and the pivotal role the body plays in supervision.

Day Two: 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.

Day Three: 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.

Day Four: 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.

Day Five: 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 practise live supervision together.

Day Six: 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.

Day Seven: 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.

Eligibility

For Minded faculty please contact us directly.

The course is also open to external candidates from various healing fields including other areas of:

• Yoga therapy
• Integrative psychotherapy
• Coaching
• Mentorship
• Ministers and other interfaith leadership
• Body-based therapy
• Other individuals established within the helping profession that manage teams or groups.

Minimum Requirements:

• 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.

Course Fees & Requirements

For applicants outside of the Minded faculty, the course fee is £1200.  A £400 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your space.

Are you a Minded Supervisor? 

If you are a Minded Supervisor or Yoga Therapy Graduate, please contact us at admin@themindedinstitute.com for more information on fees as reduced rates may be available. 

Additional Supervision Requirements

In addition to the live teaching, all attendees must offer 50 supervision sessions within the area that they supervise in and undertake 10 paid-for supervision sessions that reflect on these 50 sessions. These ten supervision sessions must be undertaken in tandem with the 50 supervisor hours at a ratio of 5:1 (i.e. for every 5 hours of supervision you provide, you must receive 1 hour of supervision yourself). Participants are given one year to complete this requirement.

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If you experience any issues during purchase, please contact accounts@themindedinstitute.com and our team will be happy to assist.

Pay in Instalments

To make our courses as accessible as possible, bespoke payment plans may be available on a case-by-case basis.

If you would like to request a payment plan, please email accounts@themindedinstitute.com.

Please note:

• The full course fee must be paid no later than seven days before the course start date

• Once a payment plan has commenced, refunds follow our standard refund policy as outlined in the Terms and Conditions

Training Terms and Conditions

You can review the Professional Training Terms and Conditions for courses with The Minded Institute here.

How Do I Apply?

If you believe you are eligible for this programme, please click here to register. This will bring up a registration form. If you fulfil the criteria outlined on the form, once you submit it a payment link will be sent to you, where you can opt to pay in full or instalments.

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 a conversation with Shaura Hall.

Who is this training for and eligibility?

Yoga Therapists.

Integrative Psychotherapists

Body-Based Therapists

Mental Health Professionals

Coaches

Mentors

Ministers

Interfaith Leaders

and other individuals established in the healing profession.

If you believe you are eligible for this programme, please do register. 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 a conversation with Shaura Hall.

Accreditation and Certification

The course is accredited by the NCIP (National Council for Integrative Psychotherapists) and provides transferable skills and certification in supervision.

This course awards 50 CPD hours.

Please note that attendance at the course does not guarantee certification, but only CPD hours. Certification is at the discretion of the Course Director and requires that attendees demonstrate all the necessary competencies outlined in our learning objectives.

Certification Process

In addition to the live teaching, all attendees must meet the following requirements in order to apply for the certificate.

Step one:

• Complete self assessment form and arrange to have one out of two tutorials at an additional cost of £70 per 60-minute session with Shaura to reflect on personal process.

Step two:

• Give and record 50 hours of supervision given within the client area they supervise.
• Undertake 10 hours of supervision to reflect on the 50 sessions (5:1 ratio)

Step three

• Complete two enquiry forms – one with a client and the other with your supervisor to reflect upon the supervisory relationship.  The forms should be explored in supervision sessions once the participant has completed all of the required hours.

Participants have one year from the last day of the training to complete the requirements.

Student Reflections

Participants consistently describe this course as experiential, embodied, and transformative. Many highlight how the structure invites both personal reflection and professional growth, creating a safe space for self-enquiry and development.

Yasmin shared that the course offered “versatile interventions that can be used in both supervision and client work” and described it as “a safe space where all enquiries were welcomed.”

Lisa noted that the training “brought a whole new level of awareness” to the role of supervision and praised the emphasis on practising skills through live, embodied experience.

Kelly reflected that her biggest takeaway was “the validity and importance of somatic resonance as a potential source of information.”

Brigid appreciated “working from multiple perspectives and seeing what’s in the field through the Seven-Eyed Model,” valuing the balance between structure and unfolding process.

Josie described the course as “experiential, embodied, and creative,” noting that it was “fun, enjoyable, and highly recommended.”

A Living Approach to Supervision

The supervision approach presented here reflects an evolving field of practice, one that honours the many streams contributing to integrative and embodied psychotherapy. It arises from Shaura Hall’s long-standing work in Spiritual Traditions, Yoga Therapy, Psychotherapy, Somatic Integration, Yoga Psychology, and Field-Based Awareness, and from her role as the creator of Integration Psychotherapy, which naturally intersects with and complements the wider professional landscape.

Rather than separating traditions, this approach seeks to weave them together, recognising that the evolution of supervision mirrors the evolution of consciousness itself. In this light, the work of The Minded Institute, Shaura’s Pilamaya Centre, and other pioneering bodies all contribute to the same collective unfolding.

This training situates the body, energy, and relational field at the heart of supervision, offering a grounded, compassionate, and evolutionary practice that honours both the individual journey and the wider movement toward embodied awareness in the helping professions.