ABSTRACT
In a society where people largely attempt to avoid authentic, honoring conversations of difference, we have few models of this done well. The supervisory relationship has the potential to be the opportunity in which supervisees experience for the first time how identity can be explored in a way that leads to connection and embrace. As people demonstrates with their supervisees that human diversity and difference is not about arriving at clean and clear conclusions but rather about sitting in tension with one another, will experience true connection and embrace. As supervisors and educators, our contextual consciousness should have consciousness about existing power differentials in the supervisee's social context; sensitivity to the supervisee's unique experiences in different contexts and with different clients; and attention to how the larger social context intersects with the supervisee's clinical work and with supervisory relationships. Teaching and supervising in our field is indeed social justice work.
