ABSTRACT

This chapter will present a series of supervisory scenes and some brief re¯ections that emerged from experiences of being in them, inviting the reader to make use of them as imaginal spaces for further elaboration. In this sense it is conceived as a stimulus to imagination rather than as a didactic tool. In considering a few of the ways in which the supervisory relationship can assist the process of evoking `the sense of something human' in supervision, I shall be speaking from experiences of work with four supervisees, who in quite different ways are struggling with the challenges of representing their work. The last of these will be concerned with a supervisee's use of supervision to explore the interpenetration of some personal and professional experiences that bear upon his capacity for selfrepresentation in his professional world.