I am delighted to say that “Full Spectrum Supervision” is published tomorrow – see www.fullspectrumsupervision.com for more details. As you might imagine, keeping the work of 7 authors together throughout production, has been quite a task but we are very pleased with the results. And if any of you budding authors out there are […]
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‘FULL SPECTRUM SUPERVISION’ – new book from CSA!
CSA is delighted to announce that on September 20th, our new book, ‘Full Spectrum Supervision’ will be published. This book takes the reader into the heart of the practice of supervision – its methods, models and its magic. Using case study focus and the Full Spectrum Model of Supervision as a guide, readers will discover how […]
Coaching Walks
In June, I ran a workshop and “experiential” on coaching walks for the Coaching Network. This built on the coaching walks I had run with coaches a couple of years ago, celebrating International Women’s Day and Mindfulness practices . We worked in triads, with a coach, a client and observer. The coach & observer […]
The Gift of Coaching Presence
The Gift of Coaching Presence Coaching Presence is a key competency in ICF accreditation and is defined as ‘the ability to be fully conscious and create a spontaneous relationship with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible and confident’. Furthermore, when a coach has coaching presence they: Are present and flexible during […]
The Dog Whisperer and Coaching?????
I attended the Coaching At Work conference this week. Conferences give a clear picture of what is current in the field of coaching and provide the perfect setting for meeting new colleagues. We had a packed day and one of the highlights for me was attending Dr Eunice Aquilina’s workshop on ‘Coming Back to the […]
NEW: Telephone supervision group. Mindfulness and Presence focus.
The significance of Mindfulness and Presence as essential elements of coaching is more and more widely acknowledged. This group will introduce a model linking mindfulness and presence and explore how we can use mindfulness and meditation to: · Be present and attentive to our clients – with the confidence to lay down our tools and […]
The Capacity to Notice
The Hawkins and Shohet Seven Eyed Model is a familiar and central feature of the CSA’s approach to Coach Supervision. But in a supervision session, with so much happening, seeing with seven eyes can be quite a challenge. As Supervisors, we are required to notice at many levels, but most of our training and discussion […]
Writing For Reflective Practice
This blog post follows on from Edna Murdoch’s blog post on the 25th May where she wrote about the important of how and where we resource ourselves as coaches. This comes at a good time to link with a recent CPD day I facilitated as part of one of the CSA Community Development days for […]
Listen more………..
Many of my supervisees and coaching colleagues, are noticing that they are working less in the area of leadership development these days and more in areas of resilience and resourcing. There seems to be an increasing trend in which clients want their coaches to support them to carry increased workloads and manage stressful work situations. […]
Thinking…thinking…thinking….
I am enjoying revisiting an excellent book on coaching supervision: “Coaching and Mentoring Supervision” Ed. Bachkirova, Jackson, Clutterbuck (2011). In particular, I have enjoyed Clutterbuck’s chapter ‘Using the seven conversations in supervision’. This chapter opens up an area that is most useful to coaches in supervision – looking at the dialogue that goes on inside […]
