Supervisors found that dealing with supervisees’ fear of supervision was a natural part of their work. They could relate to this fear by thinking about their own experiences of being supervised, as in FGD2: ‘It doesn’t happen at health centres only. Even if he [a national supervisor] comes to give us some advice, we first feel discomfort. … That fear is in the human nature [other participants repeat agreeingly].’ (S8, male, A1 degree)