Trauma-Informed Supervision - Three Association S3E5

Together in the Mystery is offering free supervision support for spiritual directors and supervisors in the LA area and beyond who are holding space with anyone affected by the LA fires.

Jeremy Frye, a supervisor and spiritual director with Anam Cara Ministries and the editor of Three Association, joins Vanessa and Maria to talk about the unique challenges and gifts of journeying with pastors and ministry leaders both in spiritual direction and supervision.

r. Kathleen McManus, OP, a Sister of Saint Dominic of Blauvelt, New York, joins Maria Tattu Bowen, Vanessa Caruso, and Tara Owens to discuss deep incarnation and how this orientation to the world and the life of Christ transforms the ministry of supervision in profound and beautiful ways.

Maria and Vanessa are joined by Online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, author, and supervisor Christine Valters Paintner to discuss the ways art and creativity can bring fresh awareness, freedom, and delight to the practices of supervision and spiritual direction.

Hosts Vanessa Caruso and Tara Owens are joined by trauma therapist, spiritual director, and educator Tracy Busse to talk about trauma in spiritual direction and supervision, polyvagal theory, and how to practice in a trauma-informed way.

Guest and supervisor Kim Isaak joins the Three Association team to discuss a powerful contemplative self-supervision tool. Kim is a certified Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher and brings a wealth of wisdom on how this practice brings us closer to God and to ourselves, especially in the practice of supervision.

Tara and Maria join Frank Rogers to discuss internal family systems and how this tool of self-understanding and self-awareness can be a liberating and beautiful way to self-supervise. IFS and its basic premises are an incredibly helpful set of lenses to bring to the practice of supervision.

What does it mean to be a highly sensitive person, and how might that be connected to spiritual direction? What do spiritual directors need to be aware of in themselves and in others when it comes to being an HSP? Maria and Tara are joined by Dan Schrock, DMin, for this enlivening and grounding conversation about sensitivity, spirituality, and the support of supervision. Dan Schrock is the co-director of the Doctor of Ministry in Leadership degree at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Camaldolese Benedictine oblate affiliated with the Monastery of the Risen Christ in San Luis Obispo, California. He offers spiritual direction and supervision, and teaches in the Advanced Certificate in Supervision, which is offered through Fordham University's Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education.

In this episode, Maria and Tara are joined by therapist Sam Jolman for a cross-discipline discussion of what are called dual, complex, or multiple relationships in spiritual direction. What can we learn from the therapeutic understanding of multiple relationships? What imagination might we need for the spiritual direction space when it comes to dual roles? What questions might we bring to our own supervisors as we consider these relationships of holy listening? Sam is a professional therapist with over 15 years of experience in narrative-focused trauma care. He specializes in men’s issues, couples counseling, and sexual abuse recovery. He writes regularly for his blog on topics of sexuality, spirituality, and mental health. He loves helping people heal and find freedom amidst the plots of their lives. He lives in Colorado with his wife and three young sons, the people that inspire his writing and ideas the most. Together, in their pop-up camper, they are exploring the best camping spots in Colorado. Sam goes to therapy, mountain bikes, and can be found trying to catch his breath on the floor of his local CrossFit gym. His forthcoming book, The Sex Talk You Never Got, is set to release with Thomas Nelson in the Spring ’24. You can follow along and get his free ebook Story Formed at his website SamJolman.com

Confidentiality is deeply important in the spiritual direction and supervision space, but what do we need to consider when thinking about how to guard the holy ground of our directee's souls? What imagination might be necessary when we talk about confidentiality with ourselves and with others? What does that process look like, and how might it be engaged in creativity and hope? Join Maria and Tara as they talk with our guest Jeremy Frye about the ins, outs, and practicalities of confidentiality in the spiritual direction and supervision relationship. Jeremy Frye is a spiritual director, retreat leader, and Director of Sacred Community for Anam Cara Ministries. One of his deepest joys is companioning people on their journey toward living into and out of their belovedness. His vocational pilgrimage began with serving for 20 years in full-time pastoral ministry in the local church, which has given him a profound understanding of and compassion for those whose personal spirituality and professional contexts converge (sometimes easily and sometimes causing great distress). He is deeply acquainted with grief and loss as well as the good but difficult work of the disordering and reordering of one's faith. Jeremy has completed a certificate in Soul Care from the Soul Care Institute, through Fuller Seminary, a 2-year apprenticeship in spiritual direction through Anam Cara, and is currently enrolled in the Companioning Center’s program for Supervision Training. Jeremy lives with his wife, two children, one dog, six chickens, and whoever else needs a place to rest their head at An Téarmann (Gaelic for the refuge), their little urban homestead in East Nashville, Tennessee. He is taking both local and at-a-distance directees and supervisees. He can be reached via email at:[email protected].