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This article explores creative supervision with Headteachers and Senior Leaders following the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines the effects of a global trauma on schools and the need for effective supervision to provide a safe container for school staff. Different forms of creative supervision are considered, including the use of symbol and metaphor as well as working outdoors, in nature.

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Co-regulation creative supervision dramatherapy nature schools trauma

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The creative container: Supervision and schools in a time of trauma

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