Congratulations you are a coach.

This has taken many hours of training and a great deal of personal development. Your training journey as a coach not only gave you the tools to coach others, but also taught you a great deal about yourself at the same time. Even if you have just started up your practice, or been coaching for many years, you keep learning more about yourself through every client you work with. When completing formal studies, you are not finished learning. Learning will continue as we have conversations with fellow coaches or clients, and each experience will give you a new lens to see not only the theory but how it works in a real situation.

There are two elements to consider regarding your development as a coach. Your own continuous personal development and your development in your profession as a coach.

Other professions have peers confiding in each other to get new ideas. You would not like to use the services of a health specialist who is no longer interested in updating their knowledge around new technology. On the sports field, players spend hours of training to be ready for an hour on the field. In the entertainment professions, dancers, musicians and more spend hours practicing before they perform. How many hours are you working and developing for an hour with the client?

Having continuous supervision is a fundamental aspect of continual personal and professional development for coaches. Supervision offers a safe and protected space for a coach to reflect on particular clients, relationships, and patterns of behaviour, which all benefit the clients the coach is working with.

Supervisors help challenge coaches to keep developing. It does not matter if you are a more senior coach than the supervisor, the supervisor training covers these and other aspects, and the senior coaches will still get value out of a supervision session. A supervisor has a focus on ethics and ethical dilemmas, helping coaches see blind spots or parallel processes they may not be aware of. Supervisors are not there in the traditional sense of a supervisor watching over your shoulder, they are more like your Sherpa helping and guiding you to bring your best into your own practice. It’s your choice what you do with all the great knowledge you have spent hours and hours getting to know and understand. This is not the end if you want to keep true on your journey of self-development and growing your coaching practice. The coaching world can feel lonely at times, but you are not alone, there is support and connections around you, you only need to reach out and you will find it. There are mentors, supervisors, peers and friends. You are the only one responsible for keeping the learner curiosity alive. Keep your development alive and growing as this will not only support you and your practice, but your client’s growth as well.

I'm able to offer group supervision (groups no bigger then 7). If you have a peer group that is looking to learn more, let me know.

One on one supervision is on offer. Lets connect