ABSTRACT
This chapter explores ways of offering a basic introduction to narrative-based clinical supervision in a variety of ways in other settings, including single study days around the UK and abroad, two- or three- day courses, or short seminars for GP registrars, new principals and trainers. As an act of story-making, clinical supervision is inseparably linked both with reflective clinical practice and with effective teamwork. It suggests ways of generating more imaginative stories in consultations. Clinical supervision can therefore be seen as a way of providing professionals with a chance to reflect on the story-making process itself, in all its different stages. Supervision is not the same as counselling or therapy, but clinical cases can have profound effects on practitioners – all the more so if they are themselves in a vulnerable state for any reason. Supervisors often have to tread a fine line between being too innocuous in their enquiries, and breaking down their colleagues' defences quite inappropriately.
