Coaching Supervision

I have been a supervisor since 2004, working with executive coaches, coaches in training, and forensic scientists. I am accredited as a Master Coaching Supervisor by the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS). I was trained by the Bath Consultancy Group and have a Certificate in Coaching Supervision. 

I help coaches (and other professionals including mentors, consultants, advisors and trainers) ensure the quality of their work, maintain their resilience, and develop professionally. I work with individual coaches, groups and with organisations offering supervision to their own coaches.

My approach to supervision is informed by my training in Psychosynthesis, the 7-Eyed Model, the Three Worlds 4 Territories model, and by ideas around presence, values clarification, and stages of leadership development. 

  • My supervision supports coaches in being the best coaches they can be. It focuses on:

  • ensuring that they are developing effective working relationships with their coachees

  • facilitating their personal and professional development

  • developing their coaching competencies

  • ensuring that the their work and approach is aligned with the needs of the coachee and of the client organisation

  • helping them make the personal shifts that will enable them to help their coachees make the shifts they need to make.

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Benefits

The benefits of Coaching Supervision include:

  • developing new choices when "stuck" in your work

  • exploring ethical dilemmas in a safe and confidential environment

  • balancing your responsibilities both to the organization and to your individual clients

  • learning new skills and approaches
    acquiring new models and frameworks to guide your coaching

  • understanding the culture or ecology of organisations in which you operate

  • knowing how to work effectively within an organisational setting

  • controlling the flow of information, particularly 'double bind' information

  • seeing the coaching within the context of the wider organisational needs

  • developing your coaching presence by increasing your Self awareness and your ability to use your perceiving, thinking, feeling, intuiting, and wisdom in service of your clients and the systems they operate in.

The frequency of the supervision sessions depends on the volume of coaching work being undertaken, the experience of the coach, and the nature of their work environment. (The CIPD recommends that coaches should receive supervision at least once every 2 months or one hour for every 35 hours of coaching.)

Supervision of Supervisors

As well as supervising coaches, I also supervise other coaching supervisors. This has many similarities to coaching supervision but tends to be more adult, more in depth and more generative, and the supervisory relationship to be more collegial and collaborative. The client system being supervised is also more, complex, as shown by comparing the two diagrams.

When supervising coaching supervisors I am helping them develop the psychological spaciousness to be able to be aware of the whole supervisory system and loosen their identification with any one part of it. This includes getting a clearer sense of their Self as the orchestrating centre of their awareness (and then perhaps noticing that there is no Self anyway).
We use in-depth reflection and reflexive thinking, examine multiple perspectives, uncover mutual blindspots, improve professionalism, develop supervisor identity, and explore ethical dilemmas.