IJSP Number 6, 2024

43 "biographical understanding " 6 also has an important function within the supervisory process. Certain problematic relationship constellations of the supervisee can be connected to earlier life-historical experiences and can be explanations for current relationship situations. 2.3. DIALOGIC COOPERATION – RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS The ability to engage in dialogue plays an important and central role in both professional fields. Psychotherapist and client or supervisor and supervisee meet “in the here and now”. The respective encounters lead to what Galli calls, dialogical collaboration, which proves to be essential for the deepening and meaning [9] of a problem. The relationship is the dynamic element that co- determines howprocesses unfold and develop. Within psychotherapy, a supportive framework is created in the therapeutic space through holding, which enables the processing of traumas, stabilization and improvement of psychological states of suffering, personal change and development. Supervision has a similar aim of creating a space in which people can think and fantasize again, as difficult and stressful events in therapeutic work repeatedly lead to resignation, depressed and hopeless moods that prevent constructive and solution- oriented reflection. Elisabeth Holloway [10] describes the supervisory relationship as a formal relationship in which the supervisee and supervisor jointly consider and work on the respective situation. The supervisor's tasks include asking targeted questions, formulating the problem as concretely as possible together with the supervisee, imparting specialist knowledge and sharing responsibility for the process. It is important to establish an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. The supervisor automatically assumes formal authority by virtue of their position. Appreciative behavior towards the supervisee, working at eye level, enables a reciprocal relationship process in which the relationship can more and more develop, thus contributing to developing the feeling of security. In our work as psychotherapists, we have become experts in relationship dynamics, which is important and an advantage if we also work as supervisors. The relationship events within the work of both psychotherapeutic and supervisory events play an important role. Within psychotherapy, holding creates a supportive framework in the therapeutic space thus enabling the processing of trauma, stabilization and improvement with regard to psychological suffering and also fostering personal change and development The mutuality of influence [11] within supervision and the resulting relationship are based on joint reflection. The setting represents a framework in which a process takes place that is based on shared assumptions. We start from 6 Idem , nota 4.