Therapists can also benefit from this model as a way of tracking the range of supervision lenses being utilized in their supervision. Although this paper focuses on supervision from a Gestalt therapy perspective, the emphasis is on the modes of thinking and attitudes that need to be fostered in supervision regardless of the specific theoretical orientation of the supervisor. In some instances this is true, in others it is more a case of ignorance and inadequacy in building relationships that causes the sense of remoteness from reality. The nature of intimate systems demands that people in a system relate to each other at levels that enable that system to function effectively. In practice what seems to happen is that boards of directors tend to operate in ways that seek to minimize ineffectiveness.
Relationships are often tenuous, superficial, and even dishonest.
There are quite of-ten transitory subsystems of people who support each other out of personal interest. The best that most boards achieve, often through share option schemes, is to align the self-interest of individual directors with the interests of shareholders. When therapists know how reach patterns emerge and become part of an infant s movement repertoire, they have a broad-based background from which to observe and understand their adult clients. Each pattern integrates into the developing nervous system and becomes the foundation for the child s, adolescent s, adult s behaviors. The formation of sucking patterns in health and dysfunction and their relationship to adult experience is examined in detail.