Robin Shohet started his therapeutic career in 1976 working in a residential therapeutic community with people who had come out of psychiatric hospitals. He left in 1979 to work freelance as a therapist, supervisor and trainer. He is the author and editor of several books, the latest co-written with his wife, Joan, called In Love with Supervision: Creating Transformative Conversations. He is a student of A Course in Miracles, a book that has had a profound influence on his life.
"As soon as I become Robin and you, Smita, we separate. The analogy I give is, if you look at your hand, and look at the fingers on your hand. Imagine that each finger had consciousness, but had forgotten it was part of the hand. So one finger looks at the other and says, it's bigger than me, I hate it. It's bigger than me, I want to destroy it, compares and everything. Forgetting that it's actually part of a hand. So what we've done is we've got individual consciousness, and forgetting that we're something much bigger. So we're like these fingers that kind of go, he's better than me, all these sources of separation. And we're not actually going to the root cause, which is we've forgotten, we're all part of the hand."
