IJSP Number 2, 2020

11 are: supervisor qualities/characteristics (e.g., being empathic), supervisee change processes (e.g., self-reflection and insight development), supervision relationship components (e.g., alliance), and supervisor practices/interventions (e.g., providing feedback). My most fundamental contention is this: Those very commonalities identify the ties that bind us all together as supervisors, indicate what we all do that practically matters. 2.2. A RUNNING REVISION: THE COMMON FACTORS, COMMON PROCESSES, COMMON PRACTICES PERSPECTIVE NOW This common factors view of supervision is not static and subject to revision. I have accordingly attempted to subject this view to a running revision process, whereby the five-step search strategy indicated above (in preceding section) remains in play and operational. I detail subsequently the most recent revisions to this common factors view, bringing together material from a number of different sources across these last seven years. All tables reflect that most recent updating. (For other commonalities not included here, see original paper [1].) Ten areas are addressed: Values, principles, supervisee characteristics/features, supervisor characteristics/features, supervisor-supervisee jointly created common factors, supervisee learning/change processes, supervisor roles, supervisor interventions, supervisor listening/experiencing perspectives, and pan-theoretical markers needing supervisor response. Core supervision values. Values are thought of as ideals, that which is regarded highly, held dear, our judgments about what is important in life. Table 1 identifies five core values that are defining of and supremely significant for ‘supervision life’. These values provide the anchoring, orienting, direction-giving substrate from which all constructive supervisory action springs. What we see emphasized are: a preeminent prizing of supervision itself, a “holding on high” the supervisory relationship, supervisee and supervisor development, and facilitative, tailored responsiveness. These values guide and abide, seemingly shared across the entirety of the supervisory spectrum [22], [26], [47-55]. Let us think of the supervisor-supervisee relationship as a sacred trust, the supervision situation as a sacred space, and supervision action as sacramental service. These five values reflect the sanctity of and honour that supervisory relationship, space, and service. Table 1 Five Core Psychotherapy Supervision Values Defined Eminent valuation – assigning the highest value to, having the utmost respect for, supervision as an ever crucial and supremely significant educational intervention; the very foundation from which all other supervision values emanate; foremost communicated via actions that show a passionate prizing of all matters supervision. Defining message: Supervision is superordinate.