ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that an essential component of the demanding and complex activity involved in being a supervisor/group facilitator, is to explore the interactional nature of this role and the powerful expectations that come with this position. Writings that connect to group experience in family therapy have tended to be those that touch on self and emotion, and address therapists' stories and areas of self-doubt. There is generally a tension for each individual in a group between the sense of self as individual and as a group member. For Farhad Dalal, the group is, par excellence, somewhere that notions of the self and identity are socially constructed. Bringing these concerns and themes into the group arena from the private sphere of internal conversation can help to render them more "ordinary" and more "shared". The ideas of Bion, in my view, offer further valuable ways to understand and facilitate the process of supervision in groups.
