ABSTRACT
One reason to have supervision throughout a professional working life is that it feeds the practitioners involved. Some supervision sessions are three-course meals, others a smorgasbord of possibilities. Some are too rich to digest immediately, and require a period of quiet reflection, or journal writing, or further work to assimilate. Some, inevitably, do not suit the digestion of the recipient, and go the way of all flesh. The possibility is there at every stage of improving the practitioner’s understanding and offering a different perspective that frees the work. Both the supervisor and the supervisee should—in an ideal world—come away from each session having chewed over some dilemma, thought something new, or said something different, or understood something more clearly, or felt something more authentically. That is, they are changed, and can grow from the space to reflect and learn. This requires time for preparation beforehand, and time to consolidate afterwards, and the courage to meet, being willing to go where the process takes us.
