ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes the aesthetic, experimental forms of co-creative practice as a way of placing practice within a systemic humanistic orientation. The educationalist Sir Ken Robinson makes the distinction between anaesthetic and aesthetic forms of education. Anaesthesia in education is characterised by linear, mechanistic forms of teaching; it is an industrial metaphor of education. The aesthetic educational practices draw on an "organic" metaphor that promotes diversity in thinking, encourages experimentation, and the exercise of the imagination. The chapter shows the improvisational, experimentalist practitioner as embedded in systemic humanising principles that promote co-creativity between all participants. The significance of embodied responsiveness as a rich resource for the performance of systemic practice and supervision is illustrated. Supervision within a systemic humanist orientation sits comfortably with a focus and critique on how power relations are construed and enacted in any encounter in life.
