Are you a coach?

Are you a Coach/Mentor/Manager/Consultant?

Do you recognise any of these situations?

You are an external coach working with a client who has a personal issue that he wants to discuss but this same situation has happened to you?
You are a coach helping another coach/colleague when you discover that you both know the same “problem” person you are discussing
You are a consultant doing lots of group work e.g. training, facilitation or action learning sets, but you often work alone and have no one neutral to debrief with or process the day’s events.
You are a HR manager and feeling burnt out by dealing with individuals everyday on personal and competence issues that are too confidential to share in house.
You are a manager who does not get the managerial support and supervision you need because their own manager won’t do it, doesn’t know how to or works in a different field
You are an internal coach who struggles to be taken seriously within the organisation because they see you as part of the furniture?

If you recognise any of the above scenarios you will see that supervision is not just for external coaches.

Peter Hawkins used the traditional picture of coal miners retuning home from the pit covered in coal dust. They fought many years to be allowed to wash their days work off at the pit head rather than taking it home. As helping professionals (either managers, coaches, mentors or consultants) we are constantly absorbing our clients ( and their organisations) “dust” and we need to enter supervision in order to wash it off for our own welfare (and development) as well as the clients. It helps keep the coach honest and courageous, attending to what they are; not seeing, not hearing, not allowing themselves to feel, or not saying.

For a more detailed discussion on burnout read “Supervision in the Helping Professions” by Peter Hawkins & Robin Shoet ISBN 0 335 20117 2

The Association for Coaching says “our current definition for a coach mentor/supervisor is a ‘qualified coach’. This means a professional coach with formal coaching accreditation from a professional coaching body or coach training school.”
At Spark we only use qualified coaches and members of respected Institutes like the AC, EMCC and ICF. Julia Menaul has also trained with Peter Hawkins at the Bath Consultancy Group on their Certificate in Supervision. http://www.bathconsultancygroup.com/content/view/33/26/

Spark Coaching & Training offers face to face, telephone and group supervision.

SUPERVISION FEES.

Phone Supervision + email support

Ideal for busy people who want to maximise their time and have flexible support i.e. 1 hour

One to One/Face to Face Supervision.

Ideal for the first and longer, in-depth sessions. i.e. 2 hours

Fees for external coaches, mentors and consultants = 80% of your client fee
Fees for internal coaches, mentors and consultants = negotiable

Group supervision is set up to order in groups of 6-7, please contact us for more information.

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