ABSTRACT
The room of supervision likewise has interconnecting doors and adjacent rooms. It is like the study where the therapist can retreat to read and think and write, a room to reflect in and learn from. It is also like the playroom where she can be in D. W. Winnicott’s ‘potential space’ and engage in a creative encounter with another, teasing out an understanding of the work with clients which lies below consciousness. The room of supervision is also like that compartment. In one mirror there is a reflection of both the world ‘out there’ which is the dramatherapy experience of the clients, which in turn reflects further back into their lives and the realities of their inner and outer worlds–what they bring with them to the therapy. In what follows the supervisor’s internalised model is that of the six modes of supervision as defined by P. Hawkins and R. Shoet.
