
Tessa Fergusson

Equality & Non-hierarchical Relating
Pulsation supervision uses a non-hierarchical way of working, there are no gurus, or external teachers telling you about yourself. You will be encouraged to explore, be offered opportunities to deepen an experience, to create opportunity to develop new awareness, that allows for a deepened understanding of yourself, you become your own expert.
It has been acknowledged in growth work that if we experience something within ourselves, feel the effect of it, rather than are told about it, we can relate to it, place it and have a greater likelihood of having choice around it to change, this is why at the heart of pulsation supervision it is an experiential learning.
Pulsations supervision holds a belief that all humans, therapist/practitioner/facilitator and patient/client are equal, loveable, valuable and have esteem and have the capacity to create new awareness and understanding for themselves.
Pulsation supervision is not done to you, but in companionship and connection, in collaboration with you. I am behind you aliveness, your champion of life, I hold your thrivingness close to my heart.
Within supervision we will explore what makes you more alive, you will be supported in exploring what is right for you, what is the way you do things, you will be supported in finding your own voice, that is rooted in your contact with your core and authenticity. Equally supervision allows for you to gain insight into how you are, what you do, and the impact you have. Support for you aliveness does not always mean that supervision is comfortable, in exploring your defended parts and to enable opportunity for personal growth and in support for your greater aliveness, sessions and experiences can sometimes be uncomfortable, to stay with comfort allows little room for growth.
The more capacity we have as human beings to look inward, to feel, to be with the intensity of our lives, with the intensity of what it is like to be human, to remain present and available to the experiences of all of life deeply, the more choice becomes available to us in how we respond to the different meetings and challenges that our human lives bring and the more clarity and capacity we have in the support of others being able to do the same.
In our lived lives, we have all had different experiences of being human, even though many of our experiences may be similar, we are all born, have a biological mother and father, we have a home, a childhood, we have an education, we go through puberty, we all became adults, we may be employed or have work, we all have had loss, are going to die, we hold some similar experiences and human challenges. Even the parts that are similar, we will have experienced them differently, and how we were left feeling from the experience will have been different, what happened, the support that was available, how others responded to us, the siblings we may of had, whether we were the eldest or youngest, the emotional environments, the people we had to support us, our relationship to others and our experiences of those relationships would have been different.
We have had different powers available to us and similarly different oppressions placed. Every person goes through life, unequal in the opportunities that are available, the different oppressions, abuses, opportunity to be supported and enabled are changed by things like our gender, our economical class, our education, our sexuality, our family configurations, marital status, our jobs, our skin colour, our neuro diversity, our ableness or disabilities, our attractiveness, even our hair colour and height and weight, means that we have not had the same amount of space to move our bodies, our voice to be heard, not the right body to be seen, unequal in the care, support, and basic human rights that we receive. Difference and diversity, social justice issues are within the trauma that is held in the bodies of the people who seek our help and support as well as within our own. If we choose to not be aware, unconscious to the fact that these power inequalities are alive in our relationships and within our own bodies and within the work with our clients/patients and the spaces we provide for therapy and healing, then there is a considerable chance that the work you do will harm another. Healing can take place superficially with a more mobile back, a pain free shoulder, but if we are to heal on a deeper level then we need to be aware and responsive to the inequalities that are there made to be less visible, are more convenient to remain invisible to those that benefit from those oppressions. This is also the case in supervision and in therapy, un equal power, oppressions, inequalities within therapy and therapeutic spaces, especially within therapies that do to another or tell people about who they are, and are held as trauma within the bodies of those who seek our support. To become healing spaces we need to become aware and more conscious of the ground of power and privilege and grow awareness around the felt embodiment of these oppressions and privileges in our clients as well as dismantle them within our own embodiment.
Pulsations supervision is committed to the awareness and work of social justice and does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation in any of its activities. Committing to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all supervisees and seeks to bring awareness to these issues in therapeutic spaces.