Welcome to the Old City, an imagined urban landscape that you are invited to wander. To explore its lane ways and climb its rooftops. To rest within its cool walled spaces. In doing so, engage with complexities of your work and move deeper towards your own practice values and understandings.
“I have done a lot of supervision in my career and I was surprised at how much I uncovered with arts supervision with Cara. My time in reflective practice with her allowed me to safely look at things that needed to change and approach with really practical and achievable goals allowing me to grow personally and professionally. The use of mediums such as painting, imagery, movement and other things I needed to make sense of my experiences, allowed me to look at parts of myself I hadn’t felt comfortable doing previously. It’s amazing the way the exploration on the day keeps working its way into your understanding of self. ”
— Kellie, Senior Youth AOD Adviser & Adventure Therapist
“Cara brings something that is rare in the community services sector, which is a combination of being highly qualified, having a great deal of practice experience with young people and a lovely, energetic and reassuring character. She brings a thoughtful and original worldview that facilitates the opportunity to re-examine the conventions and habits of thinking that surround projects in the community services sector....I also asked Cara to facilitate some team building sessions which she did with creativity and safety for all involved, setting the ground work for very productive days.”
— Jo, Manager YSAS Training and Practice Development
“Cara uses art therapy frameworks to approach reflective practice and supervision, using her unwavering values and ethics such as safety, equity and transparency to help guide others in decision making, consultation and project management on small or large scales. Cara has the most beautiful way of finding the perfect words for each exact moment. The ability to distinguish everyone’s strengths as well as room for growth. She possess a gift so vast and cosmic it’s difficult to hold on to!”
— Tamara, Trauma Counselor & Senior Youth AOD Adviser
“Cara was a compassionate guide in exploring and reflecting on the stories I held in both my mind and body. With the playfulness and freedom offered through the medium of art, Cara held a generous space that allowed me to be vulnerable and curious about what organically emerged. The process provided new clarity and resonance that have supported a more integrated sense of myself that has allowed me to move forward connected.”
— Rhiannon, Senior Practice Consultant – Out of Home Care Capacity Building