How much do you see Coach Supervision as ‘control’ or ‘guard rails’?

Confessions of a Supervisee

09/02/2021

Confessions of a Supervisee I was talking with a colleague the other day about why I had wanted to become a supervisor, which I did some years ago now. The main reasons I recalled were to do with supporting the coach community I’d set up back then and finding a deeper way…

Ideas for Coach Supervision content: Objectivity and Evasiveness

01/02/2021

Can we use more than instinct in a real-time conversation? If not instinct, lots of different perspectives suggests to me that my analytical brain might whirr all the more from juggling all the possibilities and impact my listening.

To what extent are coach supervisors lifeguards?

16/06/2020

Hope you've been enjoying Helen's TCD community Zoom calls during lockdown. The one on coach supervision prompted this question about lifeguarding being a possible metaphor for coach supervision. The idea is a little frivolous perhaps, inviting an initial answer of 'no'.…

Physician Heal Thyself

28/01/2020

Physician Heal Thyself A long, long time ago, when I first trained to be a coach, I remember one particular exercise I and my fellow trainees were asked to undertake. It was very simple and very powerful and has stayed with me ever since. In pairs, unsurprisingly, one of…

Confessions of a supervisor

07/01/2020

Confessions of a supervisor I must confess, when I am supervising groups of coaches I sometimes come away somewhat disappointed. All too often the coaches come from one of two stances. They either come in 'lazy mode', where they haven't reflected on their own work but…

The Perils of Friendliness

09/09/2019

I was reading an article in the Coaching Psychologist on the way to a client this morning. The article reported some research into whether client factors – described as clients’ “core self-evaluations” - are a significant factor in the effectiveness of coaching; client…