Intervision is a peer-to-peer space for mental health professionals, educators, and students who want to think together about the work they are doing—and about what the work asks of them as people.
We understand clinical practice as relational work. The person sitting across from us does not arrive in a vacuum, and neither do we. We enter the room carrying our own histories, identities, assumptions, institutional training, relationships to power, and experiences of the systems within which we practise.
Intervision creates a space to slow down enough to notice what happens at that meeting point. It is a space between the practitioner and the person, the clinical and the political, expertise and uncertainty, what we know and what we are still learning.
This is particularly important when we are trying to practise differently inside systems that were not built around liberation. It is difficult to sustain an anti-oppressive, relational, or liberation-orientated practice in isolation. Without spaces to think with others, we can easily become over-reliant on our own frameworks, turn our values into ideology, or carry the contradictions of the work alone until they become exhaustion.
Intervision is one attempt to create another possibility. It is a structured space for collective thinking, reflection, and professional companionship. There is room for uncertainty here. There is room for not knowing. There is room to bring work that feels complicated, uncomfortable, contradictory, or unresolved without immediately turning that discomfort into a problem that needs to be solved.
We are interested in developing the capacity to stay with complexity without becoming paralysed by it.
At its heart, Intervision is an attempt to interrupt the isolation that can accompany therapeutic work.
What this space is—and isn't
Intervision is not supervision, although it may complement supervision.
It is not an informal venting session, and it is not a networking group organised around professional visibility or opportunity.