Standing out from the crowd: what’s your USP? Jo Birch and Sarah Corrie When you are an integrated coach/therapist, how do you market yourself? Jo Birch and Sarah Corrie explore the dilemmas and offer advice to dual-trained practitioners on creating your brand and promoting your practice. As coaches we offer services in an economic and […]
New Coaching Supervision Group in London – closed group, 3 sessions 3 x Monday evenings – 6.30 to 8.30pm in person, near London Bridge Coaching supervision offers a wonderful space in which to reflect on our work – celebrating joys and successes; gaining deeper understanding of difficulties and blind spots; sharing learning; further developing ethical […]
FREE Teleconference on: What is supervision? If you are interested in finding out more about supervision and about the forthcoming CSA accredited supervision programs in the US, make sure you sign on! CSA’s US Program Leaders, Sam Magill and Karyn Prentice will lead the call on Tuesday 5 August at 8am PCT (Pacific Coast Tine) […]
(From the Quarterly newsletter of ICF-HCC, India) ‘Work is the place where the self meets the world’. David Whyte (1) As some of you may know, I am a Director at the Coaching Supervision Academy. We are based in the UK but our 9-month supervision training programme takes place in many countries and we […]
CSA CPD Day London 28th June 2014 Have you ever taken a walk around a garden with your supervisee and explored the different seasons and their effects on the mind, body & spirit of supervision? At the recent CSA CPD day we were invited into a very special supervision garden by […]
Mindfulness for Coaches Transform your Personal and Professional Life As busy professionals working in complex client settings there are frequently multiple demands on your time, effort and attention. How do we replenish ourselves before, during and after each session to help ourselves develop resilience and resourcefulness to meet challenging issues? Mindfulness provides a systematic approach […]
The moment you stop doing what you are doing and start reviewing your life or career, is the time you begin a process of change. – Jackee Holder When I started out as a coach in 1996 the wheel of life model was one of the first coaching tools my then coach introduced […]
( A follow up blog to REPARENTING SELF : A KEY LEADERSHIP SKILL). If leaders need to have the skill of reparenting themselves then, arguably, that also applies to coaches. This is for several reasons : a) Leaders often have a coaching role; this indeed may increasingly be the case. b) Coaches may […]
KEY LEADERSHIP SKILL: Re-parenting Self This blog draws its rationale from the transactional analysis concept of the Parent ego state. That part of ourselves with which we seek to manage our lives through the beliefs, values and ‘shoulds’ about self, others and the world. Leaders may be seen as having a particular role and responsibility […]
The Characteristics of the Emotionally Intelligent Supervisor Recently I was lucky enough to attend a London event where Daniel Goleman was speaking about his book ‘Emotional Intelligence’. Since then I have had several discussions with coaches and supervisors I have supported, on what characteristics are displayed by emotionally intelligent supervisors (and leaders). From these discussions […]
