In breaking with the tradition of not teaching supervisors how to supervise, the authors formed a Supervision Study Group. We discovered that beginning supervisors and their supervisees were not attending to the basic psychoanalytic principle of interpreting unconscious meaning derived from their associations. Instead, supervisees conducted the initial interviews by a question/answer method that reveals conscious responses through rational dialogue. Because that interview method excludes knowledge of the patient's unconscious, such an evaluation is severely limited. To remedy this problem, the authors demonstrated to the seminar members how the patient's and the analyst's discussions of their reciprocal associations can be used to include the unconscious. In this method, The Associative Procedure, the relationship between the unconscious and conscious meaning becomes the basis of an analytic dialogue that is present from the beginning. By using it in analysis and supervision, many impasses in can be prevented.