IJSP Number 5, 2023

40 Gestalt theory [ 13 ] . From a critical realistic point of view, we should not assume one professional relationship, but at least two - if we consider that at least two people are actively involved in the supervision setting. One supervision situation and relationship of the supervisee with his/her supervisor in the experiential world of the supervisee on the one hand, one supervision situation and relationship of the supervisor with his/her supervisee in the experiential world of the supervisor on the other hand [ 14 ] . In group supervision, correspondingly more worlds of experience must be included. Fig. 1: The therapeutic relationship on the side of the therapist and on the side of the client in the overall psycho-physical context of the therapeutic couple. This figure originally appeared in a German version [ 15, p. 33 ] . Here we are not dealing with different perspectives of two or more persons in one common world of perception, but with different individual worlds separated from each other, which admittedly enter relationship and exchange with each other. They can empathically put themselves into the respective other's world of experience and try to see the respective situation through his or her eyes - but the opposite person is always the phenomenal opposite person in one’s phenomenal world and not this other person in his/her phenomenal world. Accordingly, there is a supervision relationship in the phenomenal (experienced) world of the supervisee and a supervision relationship in the phenomenal world of the supervisor. A given