An Attachment Approach to Working with Issues of Difference in an Intercultural Setting

This chapter describes a supervision group within an organisational placement setting. It highlights three essential supervision tasks and explains the theoretical thinking and models that inform the supervisory process, utilising a psychodynamic, intercultural, and attachment framework in conjunction with the seven-eyed supervision model. It lays out the basis for group safety and, through four vignettes, explores some cultural differences and issues of diversity that impact the supervisory group process. It highlights how over the length of each dyadic relationship and the group's life cycle, an enabling culture of an increased capacity for reflectivity, mentalisation, and self-awareness or the lack of such influences the quality and depth of learning and growth.