Lpcanc 2017 - Incorporating Creative Strategies in Counselor Education Supervision

INCORPORATING CREATIVE
STRATEGIES IN COUNSELOR
EDUCATION & SUPERVISION
Courtney B. Walters, MA, LPCS, NCC
Angie C. Smith, PhD, LPCS, NCC
2017 LPCANC Annual Conference

Innovative Therapies: Advancing the Counseling Profession
PRESENTER INFORMATION
Courtney Walters is a second-year doctoral
student in the Educational Leadership, Policy,
and Human Development (ELPHD) Counselor
Education program at North Carolina State
University. She is a Licensed Professional
Counselor Supervisor (LPCS) in North Carolina
and a National Certified Counselor (NCC).
She has two years of clinical supervision
experience and eight years of counseling
experience (post-licensure) in university,
hospital, and agency settings.

PRESENTER INFORMATION
Dr. Angie Smith received her doctorate degree in
Counselor Education at North Carolina State
University, Raleigh North Carolina. Currently, she is
a Teaching Associate Professor at North Carolina
State University, Licensed Professional Counselor
(LPC) and Supervisor (LPCS) in Raleigh, North
Carolina. Her experience as well as research and
teaching interests include career counseling and
development, online teaching and learning
modalities, supervision in counseling, college
counseling, and student development. Her most
recent career pursuits include developing and
teaching courses for an Online Masters Program
at North Carolina State University and coauthoring
a book about online teaching within the helping
professions.
PARTICIPANT INTRODUCTIONS
Please share:
Your name and work setting
Experience with counselor
education or supervision
What are you hoping to get out of
this session?
Anything else you want us to know
about you!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Discuss reasons for incorporating creative strategies in counselor education
and supervision.
Explore ways to offer creative strategies in both face-to-face and online
environments.
Provide opportunity for experiential learning. Attendees will be able to
participate in selected activities.

DEFINING CREATIVITY
(LAWRENCE, FOSTER, & TIESO, 2015)
A form of cognitive restructuring precipitated by a block in the problem-solving

processes (Bierly et al., 2009).
The combining and recombining of ideas or seeing new relationships among ideas,
which can lead to original and adaptive notions, solutions, or insights (Runco &
Chand, 1995).
Creativity is what is most novel and interesting, almost always generated out of
uncertainty, ambiguity, and a position of creative indifference or not knowing
(Kottler & Carlson, 2009).
An ability to generate ideas that are, at once, innovative and useful (Feist, 1998).
A goal-directed process that involves recognizing ones subjective experience,
examining the ways of thinking that may shape that experience, imagining potential
alternatives (i.e., considering novel approaches and accompanying risks), and
deciding on a course of action (Yun Dai & Shen, 2008).

CREATIVITY IS THE ACT OF TURNING NEW AND
IMAGINATIVE IDEAS INTO REALITY. CREATIVITY IS
CHARACTERISED BY THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE THE
WORLD IN NEW WAYS, TO FIND HIDDEN PATTERNS, TO

MAKE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SEEMINGLY UNRELATED
PHENOMENA, AND TO GENERATE SOLUTIONS.
CREATIVITY INVOLVES TWO PROCESSES: THINKING, THEN
PRODUCING.
Linda Naiman, Creativity at Work

DONT BE AFRAID OF FAILURE!


KIDS WILL TAKE A CHANCE. IF THEY DON'T KNOW, THEY'LL HAVE A
GO. AM I RIGHT? THEY'RE NOT FRIGHTENED OF BEING WRONG. I
DON'T MEAN TO SAY THAT BEING WRONG IS THE SAME THING AS
BEING CREATIVE. WHAT WE DO KNOW IS, IF YOU'RE NOT PREPARED
TO BE WRONG, YOU'LL NEVER COME UP WITH ANYTHING ORIGINAL -

- IF YOU'RE NOT PREPARED TO BE WRONG. AND BY THE TIME THEY
GET TO BE ADULTS, MOST KIDS HAVE LOST THAT CAPACITY. THEY
HAVE BECOME FRIGHTENED OF BEING WRONG. AND WE RUN OUR
COMPANIES LIKE THIS. WE STIGMATIZE MISTAKES. AND WE'RE NOW
RUNNING NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEMS WHERE MISTAKES ARE THE
WORST THING YOU CAN MAKE. AND THE RESULT IS THAT WE ARE
EDUCATING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CREATIVE CAPACITIES.
Ken Robinson, Do Schools Kill Creativity? (TED Talk)

SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY
CREATIVE PEOPLE
1. Prepare the ground.
2. Plant seeds for creativity.
3. Live in the question.
4. Feed your brain.
5. Experiment and explore.
6. Replenish your creative stock.
7. The secret to liberating your
creativity.
Linda Naiman, Creativity at Work

EMPLOYERS ARE LOOKING FOR:
Critical thinking skills
Problem-solving skills
Oral, written, and interpersonal
communication skills
Ability to locate, organize, and
evaluate information from multiple
sources
Appreciation of diversity and
individual differences
Potential for continued learning and
Tara Kuther, What employers seek in job applicants: Youve professional development
got the skills they want (APA Psychology Student Network) Innovation and creativity
Ability to apply knowledge and skills
in real-world settings
IN MOST PROFESSIONS TODAY, INCLUDING
COUNSELING, CREATIVITY IS A NECESSITY.
ENVIRONMENTS AND THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS AND
GROUPS CHANGE. SOCIETY EVOLVES. THE HELPING

STRATEGIES OF YESTERDAY ARE NOT ALWAYS
APPROPRIATE TODAY.
IF COUNSELING IS TO CONTINUE TO BE ON THE

FOREFRONT OF THE HELPING PROFESSIONS, IT MUST
CONTINUE TO PROMOTE CREATIVITY.
(Gladding, 2008, p. 103)

CREATING CREATIVE CLINICIANS
Counselor educators and supervisors are expected to assist counselors-in-
training with developing a variety of skills, including creativity and innovation.
How do we do this?
Teach and model innovative ways of thinking
Provide opportunities for creative thought and action within the class or
supervision environment through
Appropriate risk taking
Appreciation of ambiguity
Improvisation
(Lawrence, Foster, & Tieso, 2015)

APPROPRIATE RISK TAKING
Appropriate risks NOT risky behaviors
As counselors, we do this by:

Reflecting our clients unspoken
emotions
Assembling a reflection of meaning
Identifying discrepancies and
challenging inconsistencies in clients
stories
Self-disclosure

ENCOURAGING APPROPRIATE
RISK TAKING
Enable counselors-in-training to explore new concepts and ideas without
fear of being wrong or ridiculed.
Empower counselors-in-training to demonstrate the openness, honesty, and
vulnerability necessary to foster therapeutic rapport, as well as the courage
required of creative behavior.
Model appropriate risk taking by trying new things in your teaching and
supervision practices.
Examples

APPRECIATION OF AMBIGUITY
The counselors world is a place of
emotion, uncertainty, and abstraction.
Counselors who have a greater tolerance

for ambiguity are:
better equipped to handle
uncertainties generated when helping
clients through life changes
more comfortable in situations that are
ethically uncertain

FOSTERING APPRECIATION OF
AMBIGUITY
Incorporating creativity into educational processes can help counselors-in-
training to become more comfortable with developing solutions to
moral/ethical issues.
Create an open learning environment that allows exploration of the
unknown.
Be wary of using language that indicates right answers and correct
solutions move beyond the idea of a therapeutic right way.
Examples

IMPROVISATION
Psychotherapy is an undefined
technique applied to unspecified
problems with unpredictable
outcomes. For this, we recommend
rigorous training (Raimy, 1950).
Counselors use improvisation with
clients, as we never know for sure what
issues they are bringing into each
session.
Counselors develop rapport with
clients, allowing them the freedom to
explore their thoughts, behaviors,
feelings, and relational patterns a
spontaneous expression.

USING IMPROVISATION
Provide counselors-in-training with opportunities to work together to
generate creative products, which allows:
Engagement in the cocreation of knowledge
Engagement in processes of inquiry
Participation in reflective processes
Using improvisation in your teaching and supervision practices fosters
flexibility and comfort with ambiguity.
Examples

EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES
Art therapy
Music therapy
Drama therapy
Dance/movement therapy
Narrative therapy
Poetry therapy
Play therapy
Sandplay therapy
Integrated arts approach or intermodal/multimodal
therapy
How can we use these in counselor education and

supervision?
(Malchiodi, 2005)

THE CREATIVE ARTS IN COUNSELOR
EDUCATION/SUPERVISION
Facilitates personal growth
Increases self-awareness
Makes class or supervision a more satisfying experience for counselors-in-
training
May increase effectiveness of learning due to differences in learning styles
and preferences
(Shephard & Brew, 2013)

SMALL GROUP
DISCUSSION
What are some other benefits of
using creative strategies in counselor
education and supervision?
Have you used creative strategies
when working with counselors-in-
training? If so, please share
examples.

TAKING STEPS TOWARDS GOALS
ART ACTIVITY (HANDOUT PROVIDED)
This activity would be appropriate in any
counseling field placement (supervision)
course where students will be setting
goals for the semester.
Learning Objectives:
Students will set goals for the semester.
Students will learn an art activity that
can be incorporated in individual or
group counseling settings.
Students will learn how to process this
type of activity in individual or group
counseling settings

CNS 6120 CLASS
(UNCP)
Spring 2017

EXAMPLES OF ONLINE ADAPTATIONS

RESOURCES
The Association for Creativity in Counseling
The Journal of Creativity in Mental Health
ACA-ACC Activities Clearinghouse
ACC Resources
Creativity Research Journal
Cathy Malchiodi Art Therapy Changes Lives
Creativity (Psychology Today)
Creativity at Work

RESOURCES
American Art Therapy Association Center for Music Therapy
American Dance Therapy Association Narrative Therapy Centre
American Library Association: National Coalition for Creative Arts
Bibliotherapy Therapies Association
American Music Therapy Association
National Psychodrama Training
American Society of Group Center
Psychotherapy and Psychodrama
Play Therapy International
Art Therapy Credential Board
Sandtray Therapy Institute
Association for Play Therapy

THANK YOU!

REFERENCES
Gladding, S. T. (2008). The impact of creativity in counseling. Journal of Creativity in
Mental Health, 3, 97104.
Lawrence, C., Foster, V. A., & Tieso, C. L. (2015). Creating creative clinicians:
Incorporating creativity into counselor education. Journal of Creativity in
Mental Health, 10, 166-180.
Malchiodi, C. A. (2005). Expressive therapies: History, theory, and practice. In C.
A. Malchiodi (Ed.) Expressive therapies (pp. 1-15). New York, NY: The Guilford
Press.
Shephard, D. S., & Brew, L. (2013). Using creativity to make practicum a
transformative experience. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 8, 444-455.
Waliski, A. (2009). An introduction to expressive and creative techniques for
counselors in training. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 4, 375-385.

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A form of cognitive restructuring precipitated by a block in the problem-solving

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Ken Robinson, Do Schools Kill Creativity? (TED Talk)

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Linda Naiman, Creativity at Work

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IF COUNSELING IS TO CONTINUE TO BE ON THE

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(Lawrence, Foster, & Tieso, 2015)

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As counselors, we do this by:

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Counselors who have a greater tolerance

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