Reciprocal peer supervision

Supervision for coaches

ReciproCoach offers coaches ongoing opportunities to participate in group supervision. Coaches participate in monthly teleconferences in which a group of coaches comes together to learn by engaging in any or all of the following:

• discussions about coaching process and different ways of approaching the same thing
• Q&As (questions & answers)
• theoretical discussions
• discussions around specific ICF competencies, IAC masteries or AC standards and/or the differences between them all for example in relation to the process of questioning
• discussions about what might get in the way of coaches doing their best coaching and how to deal with these issues.
• sharing of tools, resources, knowledge that work and don't work
• case studies and how to improve on them
• sharing different models
• safe space to talk about new ideas
• debate coaching process
• reconsider assumptions
• discuss ethical issues, or issues relating confidentiality
• role playing
• listening to and discussing excerpts from their own recorded sessions

"Supervision provides a way to support [coaches] and to address clients' needs while, at the same time upholding the professional practice of [coaching] around the globe." Although this definition was adapted from a supervision training manual for counsellors, published by Family Health International (2005), it comes from a field (counselling/therapy) that has been engaging in supervision for several decades and therefore provides a clear explanation of what supervision is to coaches who may be coming to supervision for the first time.

You can gain a deeper understanding of the process and professional benefits of supervision in coaching, by reading the following research reviews:

Keeping coaches honest

Quality control for coaches