Exploring how people create meaning from their personal experience is central to clinical practice, and is equally important in examining the development of the intern therapist's clinical skills. This study examined supervision session discussions and interns' accounts of their training experiences in order to understand how meaning and knowledge were developed through the supervisory interactions, how the interns viewed their roles and responsibilities in the supervisory process, and what the supervision session and interview text revealed about the supervisory context and clinical psychology as a community of practice. Findings were discussed from a synchronistic perspective in which the interrelationships among various excerpts of the conversations were examined. This allowed information about individual supervision contracts; the facility at which the training occurred was used as a contextual reference point and organizational foundation in the discussion. In examining the discourse of the supervisory "talk," the personal accounts of the interns and supervisors revealed their mutual construction of clinical knowledge and skill. The "storying" process through which understanding was achieved involved a "shift" and development of meaning as intern and supervisor exchanged text, but much of the mutual understanding involved social meaning, or meaning that was mediated by the supervisory context. Other findings of the study are discussed. (RJM)