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The Beautiful Risk of the New
I have also gone through some trials leading up to the supervision. I have
especially reflected on how I can create a supervision room and a space where
the Voice can find a place and be heard, while at the same time the caseworkers
are given a meaningful and respectful space.
I know that the caseworkers go to work and do their best at the residential
mental health facility, but what has happened in the collaboration?
It is hard to be yelled at, just as it is hard to be rejected and distanced from. I
hope that together we can spot some of the pitfalls and dead ends that have
trapped thoughts, actions, and ideas. I know there is more knowledge and there
are more possibilities than what is currently creating distance and anger.
I also know that there is more to tell and more to discover, and I look forward to
this happening in a space where we are together.
I am looking forward to it, but I also need to muster my courage. I need to have
the courage to make it possible for the woman to have a central and important
position—even if I do not know how she will express herself. I also need the
courage to ask questions. Questions that create space and get close enough to
what matters. And questions that can make it possible to collaborate and find
paths into the possibilities, nooks, and crannies. I will also need that courage if
some of the invited caseworkers have doubts about this different way of doing
supervision.
The unknown and the untried are an inescapable part of life. With courage close
to my heart, I try to embrace what Gert Biesta calls the
