Christopher Watson and Mary Harrison from the Center for Early Education and Development (CEED) attended the first annual Reflective Supervision Symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor August 10-12. The Symposium was hosted by the newly incorporated Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health and the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. On the first day of the Symposium, Watson presented a new research and training tool, the Reflective Interaction Observation Scale (RIOS), developed by the Alliance research committee. The team is led by the Minnesota team of Watson, Harrison, Jill Hennes and Maren Harris. The RIOS identifies five Essential Elements – the “active ingredients” – in reflective supervision/consultation that is grounded in infant mental health theory and practice. The Symposium featured live, unrehearsed individual and group reflective supervision sessions and facilitated reflective small group processing. One of the presenters was Minnesota independent consultant and trainer Jill Hennes. Kristin Armbruster, coordinator of the Minnesota Association for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, rounded out the Minnesota contingent at the Symposium.