[[Embodiment]] [[Books Index]] # Working with Embodiment in Supervision - A systemic approach Edited By [Jo Bownas](https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Jo%20Bownas "Search for more titles by Jo Bownas"), [Glenda Fredman](https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Glenda%20Fredman "Search for more titles by Glenda Fredman") # Introduction **Your perception or view of people and their behaviour affect the outcome** - "The Milan systemic family therapy team (Selvini Palazzoli et al., 1978) held the view that positively connoting people and their behavior helps us appreciate the situation from each person's perspective; hence, we can more easily join with the client/supervisee and their system in working collaboratively towards their preferred outcomes. Boscolo et el (1987) explained how it is harder for people to change under a negative connotation. Page 7" - Selvini Palazooli, M. Boscolo L... 1978.. Paradox and Counterparadox. New York: Aranson - Boscolo, L. Cecchin.. (1987) Milan Systemic Family Therapy. New York: Basic Books **The hierarchies of power can silence people.** - "Systemic approaches pay attention to differential power as it affects the lives of people with whom we meet and the relationships we construct with them. Griffith and Elliot Griffith ( 1994: 73) note that hierarchies of power can silence people and, therefore, they 'strive to establish egalitarian relationships within the therapeutic conversation'. Page 8" - Griffith, Elliot (1994), The body speaks: Therapeutic dialogues for mind-body problems. New York. Basic Books In systemic method, use questions rather than statements, interpretations or suggestions. - "The use of questions, rather than statements, interpretations or suggestions is central to the systemic method (Tomm, 1988). In particular, we use relational questions to invite the people with whom we are meeting to consider connections and differences between people and ideas, between our actions and the meanings we give to those actions and the contexts in which we act." - Page 9 - Tomm. K (1988) Interventive Interviewing. Part 3: Intending to ask lineal, circular, strategic or reflexive questions. Family Process, 27-1-15 [[Interventive Interviewing]] - ![[Screenshot 2024-02-26 at 9.45.21 PM.png]]