The Heart of Coaching Supervision: Working with Reflection and Self-Care (Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge)

__The Heart of Coaching Supervision__ takes us on a journey that starts with understanding who we are, and why we do what we do the way we do it, so that we can help those we work with understand themselves and their practice. The journey includes our background and personal and professional influences and considers the need for self-resourcing to resource others. It examines our being alongside our doing, to ensure that we can provide the best possible service to all those we work with. The book’s highly experienced contributors provide a unique perspective on supervision’s benefits. The chapters cover themes that support self-discovery and resourcing including the three Ps of supervision and coaching, diversity and inclusion, resourcing, working with intense emotions and the self as instrument. Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment^©^ is explored in a supervision context alongside creative forms of reflective and expressive writing and resourcing through a peer supervision chain. __The Heart of Coaching Supervision__ also includes ten engaging, international case studies, considering the role of supervision in depth. A key contribution to the field, the book is essential reading for all coaches and mentors, coaching supervisors and psychologists, managers in a coaching role and anyone in a helping profession or leadership position wanting to better understand the wide benefits of supervision. The Heart of Coaching Supervision- Front Cover 1 Half Title 6 Series Page 7 Title Page 8 Copyright Page 9 Dedication 10 Contents 12 Notes on the editors and contributors 14 Editors 14 Chapter authors 16 Case study authors (Chapter 10) 21 List of illustrations 25 Figures 25 Tables 25 Foreword 26 Liz Hall 26 References 28 Preface 29 References 30 Chapter 1: Introduction to The Heart of Coaching Supervision, Eve Turner and Stephen Palmer 32 Introduction 32 What is supervision? 33 What does research tell us? 36 Overview of the book 41 Case study 44 Conclusion 46 Practice points 47 Discussion points 47 Note 48 Suggested reading 48 References 48 Chapter 2: The 3 Ps of supervision and coaching: Philosophy, Purpose and Process, Peter Jackson and Tatiana Bachkirova 51 Introduction 51 The logic of the model’s development: the concept of practising ‘from who we are’ 51 Structure of the model 55 Philosophy 55 Purpose 59 Process 61 Integrating the model 62 Case studies: personal experiences of using the PPP model 64 Conclusion 68 Practice points 68 Discussion points 69 Suggested reading 69 References 69 Chapter 3: Diversity and inclusion in supervision, Judy Ryde, Lily Seto and Damian Goldvarg 72 Introduction 72 The development of this relational approach to supervision 73 The practice of supervision across difference 75 Assumptions exercise 76 Intersubjective systems theory 80 Case study from Lily Seto’s work 85 Case study from Damian Goldvarg’s work 86 Conclusion 88 Practice points 89 Discussion points 89 Suggested reading 89 References 90 Chapter 4: Resourcing: the neglected third leg of supervision, Peter Hawkins 92 Introduction 92 Development of resourcing in supervision 93 The practice of re-sourcing in supervision 99 The relational container 106 Case study 107 Conclusion 109 Practice points 110 Discussion points 111 Suggested reading 111 References 111 Chapter 5: Working with intense emotions, Keri Phillips 114 Introduction 114 The development of the approach 115 Practice 118 Suggestions for working with intense emotions 122 Case study 129 Conclusion 131 Practice points 131 Discussion points 132 Suggested Reading 132 References 133 Chapter 6: Self as Instrument, Eunice Aquilina 136 Introduction 136 The development of this approach to supervision 136 Practice 139 Get present 143 Bring grounded compassion 146 Case study – Rebecca’s question 149 Conclusion 152 Practice points 153 Discussion points 153 Suggested reading 154 References 154 Chapter 7: Creative forms of reflective and expressive writing in coaching supervision, Jackee Holder 156 Introduction 156 The development of the approach to supervision 157 Practice 159 Free writing 161 Vignette one 162 Vignette two 163 Where To start? Writing to be present 164 Writing to your internal supervisor 166 Using metaphors from nature in supervision 167 Inner and outer nature 167 Reflective activity 169 Discovering hidden connection through writing 169 Self-reflection for supervisors 169 Case study 170 Conclusion 173 Practice points 174 Discussion points 174 Suggested Reading 175 References 175 Chapter 8: Supervision in the Thinking Environment®, Jane Adshead-Grant, Anne Hathaway, Linda Aspey and Eve Turner 178 Introduction 178 The development of supervision in a Thinking Environment 179 The practice of individual supervision 182 The positive philosophical choice 183 Contracting 183 Feelings 184 The emergence of trust 185 Getting to the core 186 The individual supervision framework 186 Duty of care 188 Our internal supervisor 189 The practice of Group Supervision 190 Case studies 193 Conclusion 196 Practice points 197 Discussion points 197 Suggested Reading 198 References 198 Chapter 9: Resourcing through a peer supervision chain, Lesley Matile, Sarah Gilbert and Eve Turner 200 Introduction 200 The development of professional peer approaches 201 Defining peer supervision 201 Emerging forms of peer supervision 202 The challenges and dilemmas for peer supervision 203 Practice 205 Key learnings for Evolve 209 Pair case study 214 Conclusion 217 Practice points 218 Discussion points 219 Suggested reading 219 References 220 Chapter 10: Case studies, Christina Baird and Sam Farmer; Laurie Hillis and Leona deVinne; Sarah Jaggers and Stephen Palmer; Michel Moral; Edna Murdoch; Alanna O’Brien and Siobhain O’Riordan; Karen Pratt and Alex van Oostveen; Ram Ramanathan; Eve Turner and James Marshall; Qing Wang 222 Introduction 222 Using case studies as part of practice 223 The case studies 224 The supervisor – aspiring to resource myself and my supervisee 225 Air mattresses, gardens and supervision 228 “You don’t have to fix everything” 230 A case of supervision of group supervision 233 Session three: Letting go, to let come 236 Case study – one-to-one peer supervision 238 Supervising within a relational paradigm 241 Afraid to challenge client 244 A journey towards self-acceptance 247 Supervision on educational coaching: being present through the cultural kaleidoscope 250 Conclusion 253 References 253 Chapter 11: Personal and professional development, Eve Turner and Stephen Palmer 254 Introduction 254 The development of the approach to supervision 255 Practice 257 The development of supervisors through training and continuous professional development 264 Supervision of supervision 265 Self-care 268 Conclusion 271 Practice points 272 Discussion points 272 Suggested reading 273 References 273 Afterword 276 Appendix A: Associations, codes of ethics and training organisations 277 Note 285 Appendix B: One example of a draft supervision agreement – bespoke to each supervisee 286 Index 293 The Heart of Coaching Supervision takes us on a journey that starts with understanding who we are, and why we do what we do the way we do it, helping those we work with understand themselves and their practice. It examines our being alongside our doing to ensure that we can provide the best possible service to all those we work with.