Coaching supervision plans considered
By Martin Kornacki (15-07-2009)
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Coaches are being told that a plan to introduce professional supervision to the industry is not meant as a “policing mechanism”.
The supervision steering group of the UK Coaching Roundtable, an independent non profit organisation with the goal of promoting best practice across the industry, says supervision is of central importance for coaches to maintain their own learning and development.
The organisation, which includes the Association for Coaching, the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and the International Coaching Federation, says its plans for supervision will benefit both coaches and their clients.
It says supervision needs to be consistent with the coaching philosophy of positive support and adding value to its clients and is about professional development, not rules-based enforcement.
In order to ensure that supervision is both of high quality and provides value-for-money, supervisors are likely to be drawn from the ranks of accredited coaches and will receive additional training where necessary.
The group says the next step is to formalise a core set of definitions and processes that each organisation can add to based on its own members’ needs.
The organisation will be joined by representatives of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Special Group of Coaching Psychology of the British Psychological Society for continuing discussions in 2009.
The supervision steering group of the UK Coaching Roundtable, an independent non profit organisation with the goal of promoting best practice across the industry, says supervision is of central importance for coaches to maintain their own learning and development.
The organisation, which includes the Association for Coaching, the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and the International Coaching Federation, says its plans for supervision will benefit both coaches and their clients.
It says supervision needs to be consistent with the coaching philosophy of positive support and adding value to its clients and is about professional development, not rules-based enforcement.
In order to ensure that supervision is both of high quality and provides value-for-money, supervisors are likely to be drawn from the ranks of accredited coaches and will receive additional training where necessary.
The group says the next step is to formalise a core set of definitions and processes that each organisation can add to based on its own members’ needs.
The organisation will be joined by representatives of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Special Group of Coaching Psychology of the British Psychological Society for continuing discussions in 2009.
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