Certificate in Coach Supervision

This programme has been awarded Continuing Coaching Education status by the International Coach Federation.



Are you interested in developing the coaching profession?

Recent dramatic growth in the coaching world is now driving demand for a body of coach supervisors. 

Whilst achieving a recognised qualification plays a key part in establishing one’s credibility as a professional coach, being in an established and ongoing relationship with a professional supervisor is indicative of a coach’s commitment to their continuing professional development and best practice.  It demonstrates to clients a desire to be an ethical, informed and reflective coach, and it promotes a rigorous professionalism within coaching itself.  Having a named supervisor is even fast becoming a prerequisite for external coaches tendering for organisational work.

Coaching Development is delighted to be leading the profession in developing and supporting the critical role of coach supervisor with its Certificate in Coach Supervision, a training programme designed to build a body of well-trained, informed supervisors who understand the ethics, responsibilities, practices and defining features of the coaching profession.

Certificate in Coach Supervision

Open to trained and experienced coaches, our Certificate in Coach Supervision is run over twelve days, taught in four three-day modules, and based in central London. 

The programme introduces tried and tested theories and a variety of supervision models.  It also offers many extensive opportunities for practice, reflection and integration – this programme is strongly experiential. 

During the course of the training participants are expected to set up their own supervision practices and to bring issues arising from their practices to the training days.

The content covered in the programme includes:

• What supervision is and how it relates to coaching
• Contracting
• Working alliances and personality types
• Relationship dynamics including power issues
• Strategies and interventions
• Transference and counter-transference
• Learning styles and feedback skills
• Ethical and legal issues
• Corporate issues and awareness
• Managing diversity
• Evaluation and reflection
• Maintaining the supervision relationship
• One-to-one supervision
• Multiple-level supervision
• Group supervision
• In-house supervision.

The ICF has assessed this programme as providing 72 CCE units (72 hours of approved continuing coaching education).  CCE hours are important in applications for an ICF credential or renewal of a credential.

Entry Requirements

There are no formal course prerequisites, but we look for the following experience and qualities:

• considerable experience as coaches
• other professional experience
• a recognised coaching qualification
• an active coaching practice
• credibility, wisdom, self-knowledge and authenticity
• an active interest in developing other people and the profession
• a commitment to enhancing your own professional practice

2010 Programme (Closed for Bookings)

Dates	Module 1: 11 - 13 March 2010 Module 2: 29 - 30 April, 1 May Module 3: 24 - 26 June Module 4: 27 - 29 September
Venue	Central London
Fees	Course Closed

2011 Programme (Open for Bookings)

Dates	Module 1: 30, 31 March - 1 April Module 2: 19 - 21 May Module 3: 30 June - 1, 2 July Module 4: 15 - 17 September
Venue	Central London
Fees	£3,200+VAT

To apply: Please send in your application form* by email to mailcoachingdevelopment.com or by post**.  We will then contact you to arrange a telephone interview with one of our trainers.  If you have any questions please contact us by email as above or on 0845 122 7200. 
 

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TRAINING DAYS ARE MANDATORY AND YOU SHOULD BE SURE THAT YOU CAN ATTEND ALL 12 DAYS BEFORE SENDING IN YOUR APPLICATION FORM.

* The application form can be downloaded from the website but you will need to complete this manually - you can then scan and return by email or send by post.
** CoachingDevelopment Ltd, Unit 7 The Factory, 2 Acre Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 6EF

The Trainers

Our Certificate in Coach Supervision is led in the UK by Colin Brett and Hilary Cochrane. 

Colin Brett

Colin first trained in supervision in 1992. He then worked as a counsellor and as a supervisor of counsellors. When he trained as a coach he noticed that hardly any coaches had a supervisor of their own, and so Coaching Development started an internal programme for its training and mentoring team. He joined this programme as a learner, and qualified as a Coach Supervisor in 2007.  

Colin's interest is in how a coach can develop a reflective practice, link this in with coaching theory and thus enrich and improve the way they work as a coach. To him, supervision is a form of professional development which serves to enrich the coach as a practitioner, protect both the client and the coaching community through ethical thought and action, and an opportunity which offers the coach a safe place to explore and self-assess.

As a trainer of this programme, Colin believes that a combination of information, reflection and activity help create a good learning process. He is fascinated by the unseen dynamic between coach and client, and is good at noticing the parallel process. He sees supervision as being an encouraging process.
 

Hilary Cochrane (MCC)

Hilary has been an executive coach for 12 years, working with individuals and groups in both large multinational organisations and smaller, niche companies in the UK, US, Asia and Europe.  She is an MCC (Master Certified Coach) of the International Coach Federation and over the last four years has become increasingly passionate about the value of supervision for coaches (and their clients).  Hilary is certified as a Coaching Development Coach Supervisor, actively working with a dozen coaches in 1:1 supervision.  She continues to contribute strongly to Coaching Development’s programmes through her roles as a certificate course mentor and an assessor for our diploma students.

Hilary’s previous 20 years in the IT industry in consulting, sales and management, and a first career in the theatre, have helped her gain a real breadth of understanding of the dynamic of personal and group change.  Her core competencies are in creating the environment for sustainable change to happen easily, and in being able to make the extraordinary ordinary and accessible, particularly in a business context.  Increasingly she has become interested in how we enable and support the spiritual dimension of individuals in the context of work.

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