The Heart of Coaching Supervision: Working with Reflection and Self-Care

by Stephen Palmer, Stephen Palmer (Editor)

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.

272 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 2018

About the author

Stephen has written/edited over 50 books including the Handbook of Counselling, Handbook of Coaching Psychology, Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice, Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Developmental Coaching, The Coaching Relationship and Solution Focused Coaching in Practice. He developed the PRACTICE model of coaching and counselling. He is Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

In his spare time, he produces 10 webradio stations.

Reviews

[Paul Lawrence · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coaching supervision has evolved even over the last five years. Five years ago there were still many people who felt it was something imposed, from a clinical context, by coaches with a clinical or psychological background. As the industry evolves, and more coaches recognise the challenges presented by a world that is becoming more complex, so coaching supervision seems to be finding its niche at the heart of reflective practice. As such coaching supervision feels still like a very new discipline. Books like this contribute to the ongoing evolution of philosophy and practice. Contributors include some of the foremost leaders in coaching supervision. This edited text is wide-ranging, including multiple perspectives and numerous case studies. Ought be of interest not only to supervisors, but coaches deciding who they want to work with, and client organisations seeking to understand what kind of practice their best coaches are likely to be undertaking. So well done to Eve and Stephen.

[Andrew Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really fascinating collection of essays on supervision, covering a wide range of approaches, issues and philosophies. Well worth reading if you are a coach, and particularly if you are a supervisor.

[Ann Akers · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book for my professional bookcase. Brilliantly edited by Eve Turner and Stephen Palmer and first class contributions for people st the top of their game. I pick it up every now and then to refresh my thinking and it is books like this that help me stay at the top of my game.