WHO IS SUPERVISION FOR?
Supervision develops and hones coaches’ skills in relating to a diversity of client personalities, circumstances and experiences, and the ability to use coaching approaches powerfully. Supervision also supports coaches to recognise where they are at a skills, personal or professionaly boundary, or where an ethical or professional contract is in danger of being compromised.
If you work professionally with people individually or in teams, supervision will
- Support you as a person- learn to regulate your own experience and reactions to client/organisational behaviour and attitudes.
- Develop you professionally- clearly understand dynamic interactions between yourself and clients, within organisations; learn tools, principles, models, foundations which create optimised environments for effective work and relationships.
- Integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes into pertinent cases; understand where you are in your professional development journey and strategise your path.
I work with a relational approach (working with what emerges in the relationship between you and me, as an echo of your other relationships) and integrative (calling on more than one modality so as to be responsive to your immediate needs). My primary psychological framework is transactional analysis, and I use this in a developmental way (acceptance of what is and was, with an intention to learn and grow!)
Supervision counts for credentialed coaches’ continuing coach education or professional development needs with many coaching bodies, like ICF – the International Coaching Federation. Read what ICF has to say on supervision here.
Coaches Starting a Practice
Every coach has started at the beginning. A hard truth is that many will not finish the journey. Navigating the pressures of a saturated industry and economically tough era can be daunting and poses unique challenges.
If you are a coach at the start of your own practice, supervision is ideal for developing competence-based confidence and your own strong style and identity in working with clients. Starting a practice poses a number of challenges, from learning the ins and outs of managing the technical aspects of your business to gaining experience with a growing variety of clients who may not be familiar with coaching yet.
I work with in an accepting and explorative way to recognise where you get in the way of yourself, with challenging clients and practice, so that you feel more grounded, can make more sense of what is going on and be more effective for your clients and business.
For new coaches, my closed supervision groups offer
- a familiar and supportive space to experience a sense of close community and new opportunities
- exposure to a diversity of coaching experiences and approaches
- opportunity to reflect on own experiences in relation to others’ cases
- lower rates than one-on-one supervision
WHAT IS SUPERVISION?
Simply put supervision is about recognising how you approach your practice and engagement with clients. It is about understanding your strengths with deep insight, so you can use them consciously and with intent as needed, and work on developmental areas to build yourself personally and professionally for the journey ahead.
You will be able to recognise patterns that emerge in the challenges you experience with your clients and the management of your practice as a business. This helps you avoid repeat difficulties whilst increasing your effectiveness as a practitioner.
WHAT SETS ME APART?
I work in a relational way, integrating expertise from various developmental frameworks into our work, to give you a human, valuable, and meaningful experience, so that you can do the same with your clients.
Here are a few things to consider when deciding which supervisor to work with
- Trained coach supervisor vs experienced coach/coaching the coach. Supervision is a specialised practice, with some similarities to coaching but distinct from it in significant ways. Self-appointed supervisors will not have knowledge of or experience in working with inter and intra-psychic dynamics and how these show up in the coach/client/system. I am a trained supervisor with Diplomas in both Coach Supervision, and Coaching.
- Coach supervisor vs academic/course supervisor. Behavioural standards are appropriately emphasised in initial coach training. Supervision however widens the scope to the nature and features of relationship. The content and mode of engagement in supervision are distinct from those in coach training.
- Coach supervision vs peer supervision/practice analysis. Supervision brings meaningful insight into the coach’s inner experience in relationships with their clients and practice (the learning is about the WHO). Practice analysis leans towards a transactional review of the coach’s internventions, models, and processes in practice (the learning is about the WHAT).
- Experience as a coach supervisor vs academic knowledge on supervision. Academically-oriented supervision tends towards practice analysis, shorter timed sessions, large numbers of group participants and an instructive approach. What you will gain in knowledge of “the what”, you will lose in understanding of yourself, “the who”.
- Walking the talk (self-discovery vs lecturing). There is a natural expectation for supervision to be instructive, with many ‘supervisors’ practicing this way by default. Valuable supervision however models authentic and transformative relationships, in which deep learning happens co-creatively.
The work I do in supervision goes beyond using cogitive skills as a means of problem-solving. You can expect to experience a paradigm shift in the way you think and in your being: how you feel, your energy, your behaviour and your engagement with clients and your practice. The outcomes of supervision with me are whole-person focused and sustainable.
Having shifted into the space of working with people from an entirely different career, I have first-hand experience with the challenges that come along with starting and running a business from scratch.
In addition to case supervision I can guide you to a number of technical solutions and tools that make running your business easier and save you time.
If you would like to learn more about how we can work together, please use the booking facility at the bottom of this page or contact form on the home page.
HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER?
I work with my clients through encrypted online video calling. This provides convenience, saves resources, time and allows global connection with the ease of a click.
I supervise coaches one-to-one ad-hoc or monthly. For coaches wanting to learn in community with others, I host supervision groups in monthly sessions over 6-month terms.
HOW WILL IT HELP?
In coach supervision you can expect to resolve the challenges you experience with clients and in managing your practice. I supervise professional coaches both new to the field and experienced, whether working with individuals or groups, or at executive level in organisations.
I am passionate about helping coaches to grow their online and face to face businesses. In addition to supervision, I share a number of business tools and best practices to help coaches enhance their approach to their practice and engagement with clients.
SUPERVISION PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
I am certified by EMCC Global as coach/mentor supervisor (ESIA) and Accredited Coach (EIA) at Senior Practitioner level, and hold a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with ICF.
I supervise using a co-creative and appreciative approach, aligned with supervision’s core of psychological mindedness. I use transactional analysis as a framework to help explore experiences and relationships. I maintain professional practice by working with my own supervisor and other continuous professional development training.
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT TO COACHING?
As a practitioner working within the field of personal and professional development with other human beings, you will always be one element of the dynamic in these relationships.
Whether working with individuals or the more intricate environments of organisations, the nature of these relationships can present ethical dilemmas, personal triggers and complexity. Often dynamics emerge between the coach and the client, outside of the coach’s direct awareness. Within supervision we will together recognise where you are effectively managing these issues, so that you can build those skills with more intent, as well as where you are getting stuck in the issues, so that you can respond effectively, safely and ethically.