It’s also a space where you can get really curious about how you coach, why you make the interventions you do, what else is happening that’s unspoken that will be at play, what influence the wider context might be having. Where (hopefully!) it’s safe enough for you to bring your vulnerabilities and mistakes too.
Supervision is a wonderful way to stand back from your coaching practice – perhaps further out, or higher up, and with another pair of eyes and set of senses alongside you – and see what you can see from that vantage point. From there, what do you see or sense about you as a coach, your client(s), a particular issue or difficult, and the wider relationship you have with your coaching clients?
Generally, supervisees might bring a client they feel a bit stuck with, or where there is a repeating pattern they can’t quite get a handle on. Where there’s something they feel they’re not understanding or are feeling puzzled by with regard to a particular client or client situation.
But they also bring themselves – why do I so often feel like x with clients? How is it that I find myself in x situation again? It’s often said ‘we coach from our autobiography’ and so supervision allows some space to explore that.
Practicals
Typically, you’d probably work with me monthly, and over a period of time so that we can spot patterns and themes in your coaching practice. And for either 60 or 90 mins according to your preference.
My background
Alongside 25 years of working in leadership and OD, as a coach and a facilitator, I have Supervision accreditation with CSTD London and in in the middle of ongoing Supervision study with the Tavistock.
My lenses are both psychological and systemic – with training in Shadow Work and Systemic Constellations – in the belief that we sometimes need to go right in and sometimes come right out to find the clues and threads that can helps us in our work.