
Tessa Fergusson

Right Brain Dominant
Most supervision for practitioners and therapists is left brain dominant, which means it prioritises the mind and verbally relating, words rather than feelings, it is based on what is logical, rational and is in the conscious availability, it therefore concentrates less on the relational, less on the therapeutic and more on technique.
Pulsation supervision is different it privileges the body above the mind and words, it is not that we don’t talk this is an important part, and it is not usually our focus together, we talk to gain understanding and to integrate new awarenesses, and the words we use are focused more on the felt experience of, which gives us access to the body.
Within our time together we will look at emotional regulation, your ability to communicate emotional states with another human being in being in deep contact with yourself and another. We will look at how you regulate and what dysregulates you emotionally, whether you can regulate your emotional state internally for yourself and with also with another human being. We may look at your attachment style which is a way of seeing how you regulate emotions, the strategies you have for emotional regulation. These attachment styles develop and translate into your life, in your adolescents, teen years and adulthood.
Why is this important as a therapist/practitioner/facilitator? self regulation is tied to stress regulation as well as emotional regulation. When we are therapists/practitioners/facilitators working with people in a healing and caring capacity we are processing relational and emotional information all the time and if we don't process our emotions, we can often feel less alive to the work and burnt out.
The right brain is dominant for the processing of emotions, for emotional regulation, for processing information that comes from the body, for non-verbal communication.
The right brain allows you to create resonance to another, it is always processing emotional information beneath conscious awareness especially in an emotional interaction, about 90-95% of what we do, what we make decisions and act on is motivated by the unconscious. The right brain is reading unconscious communications between us all the time.
In pulsation supervision we look at the right brain becoming more dominant which allows us to gain new insight and awareness that were previously invisible to us, and we begin to place value less on the techniques used and more on the healing that occurs by being in relationship and increasing the embodied felt understanding of our clients/patients processes. Within the therapy that we use, we place more value on our clients/patients own growing awareness and understanding of themselves, from sessions ,with any interventions we might place, whether that is from movement, bodywork, stretches, breathwork, needles, our hands or from awareness gained from speaking to. Focusing on right brain dominance in supervision space allows for deeper understanding to be made, more feeling, more love, compassion, choice, adaption, creativity, intuition, trust, deeper contact, imagination, morality and connection to the highest levels of human nature.