Coaching Supervision for Coaches
Working together as thinking partners
My approach is for us to have a collaborative partnership in exploring the issues you bring to supervision. I will provide a protected, confidential, reflective space to help you explore issues that arise from you coaching practice and challenges that impact you as a coach, so that you are able to:
- Determine any actions you may wish to undertake because of our supervision sessions
- Enhance and develop your self-awareness and capability as a coach
- Have a place where you can brainstorm and explore ideas to complex or challenging coachee/client situations
Three principles underpinning the supervision I provide
Normative: that your work as a coach is professional and ethical, operating within the codes, laws and organisational norms which apply to the coaching you are providing. It helps you work through tricky challenging situations, and ethical dilemmas.
Formative: the support and challenge that enhances your knowledge, skills, aptitude and abilities as a coach. Grounded in reflective practice and helping you integrate learning into practice.
Restorative: taking care of you, your capacity for self-management and self-care, and helping you assess what you might need to sustain you as a coach and your coaching practice.
A more formal definition of coaching supervision
Coaching supervision is a formal and protected time for facilitating a coach’s in-depth reflection on their practice with a Coaching Supervisor.
Supervision offers a confidential framework within a collaborative working relationship in which the practice, tasks, process, and challenges of the coaching work can be explored.
The primary aim of supervision is to enable the coach to gain in ethical competency, confidence, and creativity, to ensure best possible service to the coaching client, both coachees and coaching sponsors.
Supervision is not a ‘policing’ role, but rather a trusting and collegial professional relationship.
Definition of coaching supervision from Association for Coaching
Types of coaching supervision I provide
Individual Supervision
Working on a one-to-one basis, in a private space.
Spending time focused on you, the challenges you are facing, and enabling you to uncover deeper insights about yourself, grow your self-awareness and enhance your coaching practice as a result.
I offer 1 hour supervision sessions online (Zoom or Teams) to provide flexibility alongside your other commitments, and we'll work at a pace and frequency that meets where you are at in your coaching at any given time.
Group Supervision
Working in small discrete groups, to gain richer perspectives on your coaching practice.
I run both open and closed formats, which means:
- open groups where you book a session as and when you need or want supervision and meet a mix of fellow coaches each time
- joining a closed group where you make a commitment with like-minded coaches to a series of supervision sessions, giving you chance to get to know each other, and support and challenge each other each time we meet in a constructive and positive way
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