Grow your Coaching Capacity

Some ways we can work together are:

1. Coachingolia Professional Coach Training

2. Coach Supervision: Group and 1:1

3. ICF Credential Support and Mentoring

Coach Supervision

The work we do as coaches is demanding and rewarding as we support others to grow and develop. As the vehicle and instrument of the work, we too need space to step back, reflect on ourselves and take a meta view of our practice. This makes attending to the instrument itself the foundation of the work in supervision. 

Through supervision you are invited to engage in reflective dialogue and collaborative learning to deepen your awareness. You face your blindspots, improve your effectiveness, experience support and continue developing as a coach and human being for the benefit of yourself and your clients.

I am influenced by many theories of human development that find their way into our work together, a bit like streams flowing into the main river allowing for an openness and receptivity to what is required in the moment. Fundamentally, these theories are intended to support us to work with complexity in ways that serve you and encourage self-reflection, critical reflexivity, and refined action. 

Key principles that guide my work as a supervisor are:

1. Humanistic principles of empathy, congruence and care advocated by Rogers.

2. Narrative approaches that believe in the power of language and culture to shape our identities and enable us to imagine and live into new possibilities.

3. A belief in identity that is multi-faceted and developed within relationships rather than an essentialist and encapsulated singular sense of identity.

4. Systems psychodynamic thinking which focuses on the unconscious dynamics, motivations, and patterns in human systems, and invites us to look beyond the explicit to the implicit and the role this serves the individual and the system they operate within.

5. A phenomenological approach that invites observation and in the moment awareness of what is happening; particularly an alertness to mind body connection and the “felt sense” to access a knowing beyond language. 

What this may look like in practice

For example, we may engage with a focusing practice in session if it is helpful to bring your “felt sense” to the issue at hand to open up a vista not accessible through rational logic and beyond labels.  Similarly, I use language and metaphor and story to help supervisees think about their client stories or themselves as coaches in ways that invite deeper reflection on possible alternative narratives.  Phenomenology will show up in the work we do where I challenge us observe what is happening in the room between us or in the client relationship or the client system.  A curious enquiry into what may be implicit in the organisational system will invite us to deepen our awareness of the unconscious at work.

ICF Mentor Coaching

As the coaching industry continues to professionalise and mature, I offer mentor coaching to support you to attain, renew or upgrade your ICF credential