Clare Norman & Steve Ridgley

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Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 131 - Changing world order - the one where we "slough it off"In this episode, Clare and Steve talk about the impact of economic decisions (whether by our own UK government by the US presidency or elsewhere in the world). This conversation was triggered by a communication from a coaching platform to its coaches, but it became much more wide-ranging, as we talked about ripple effects in all areas of our work. We ask the question “Who tells coaches what we can and cannot do?” and then we meander into other arenas, including a reflection about the confidentiality and data protection of our virtual software platforms and other coach tech. As they...2025-04-1543 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 126 - "I'm not good enough" - The one where we talk about right-sizing yourself as a coachClare and Steve discuss some common challenges for coaches, beginning with feeling inadequate or "not good enough," often stemming from a lack of external feedback after completing coach training. They note this "playing small" mindset typically evolves over time into a desire to "play bigger" and have more impact. And yet, even experienced coaches can doubt themselves. Also, if we play too big we risk reducing the 'size' of our clients or our fellow coaches in group supervision. Right-sizing ourselves is a never-ending quest. Contrary to this idea of a quest though, the conversation touches both Clare and St...2024-11-1933 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 120 - Are we losing the truth? - The one where we ask where the truth has gone and what happens if we seek it?Prompted by Steve asking 'Are we losing the truth?' Our podcasters notice how our relationship to the truth is being pulled in multiple directions - be it government, social media, mainstream media - we are, it seems, simultaneously hunting for the truth, but also easily persuaded into believing anything is the truth. Clare and Steve take this hypothesis into the coaching and supervision space and ask what happens if we as the coach or supervisor chase the truth? We explore what it might mean to 'lean out' to see more and to 'bathe in the not knowing'.2024-05-2138 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 108 - The one where we reflect on creative reflective practice with Michelle LucasClare and Steve talk with Michelle Lucas about stimulating ways to build reflective practice into your schedule. They discover that they all dislike journaling as a form of reflection, but that prompts that are auditory, visual, kinaesthetic and metaphorical approaches that can bring much more joy to reflective practice, and much more insight, compared to simply playing back what happened. Michelle’s book, Creating the Reflective Habit: A Practical Guide for Coaches, Mentors and Leaders, is on Amazon and in all good bookshops: https://amzn.eu/d/aEGHjyQHer monthly reflective practice sessions, where you reflect in...2023-05-2345 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 107 - The one where Clare and Steve play with the notion of the games people playArising from Transactional Analysis, the idea of game-play originated by Eric Berne is the subject of this episode. In any human interaction or exchange, game-play is possible. Clare and Steve explore examples they have experienced in coaching and supervision. They refer to the social and psychological messages that lie underneath games and how our need for strokes might unconsciously draw us into games.Something to explore with your supervisor!2023-04-1836 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 106 - The one where we talk about the impact on coaching of anxiety about the world’s uncertaintiesClare and Steve wonder whether the anxiety that coaches, and clients, feel about the state of the world, leads to lower levels of courageous intervention in our coaching. This episode takes us through a model called BANI, developed by Jamais Cascio to replace VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous), which Jamais suggests is becoming obsolete as the pace of change has become even greater. BANI stands for:BrittleAnxiousNon-linearIncomprehensibleYou can read more about it here: https://thinkinsights.net/leadership/bani/ As always, we encourage you to bring anything to supervision when you...2023-03-2136 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 105 - The one where we ask what makes the sugar sweet in team coachingClare and Steve welcome Georgina Woudstra to the podcast to acknowledge the growth in team coaching and to ask, what is good team coaching and how do we get good supervision for the challenges that arise for a team coach?Georgina is a leader in the development of team coaching. She leads the Team Coaching Studio - https://teamcoachingstudio.com/ Georgina's book, "Mastering The Art of Team Coaching: A comprehensive guide to unleashing the power, purpose and potential in any team" is on Amazon and in all good bookshops:https://www.amazon.co.uk...2023-02-2153 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 104 - The one where it’s possible to fall out of love with coachingClare and Steve ponder this perhaps taboo subject. Taboo because it doesn’t rear its head in supervision very often, yet we suspect that there is more of it in the system than coaches like to admit to. We ask questions such as:What has shifted?What are you experiencing?What patterns in other parts of your life might be having an impact?What might it be like if you looked at it through a different lens?What agency do you have?If you sense that you have fallen out of love wi...2023-01-2430 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 103 - The one where we sack the clientPrompted by a discussion in Steve's supervision group, Clare and Steve explore what it means to sack a client. Maybe this is more relevant to the corporate client, but maybe we can also do this with a private client? Do we cover this in our terms and conditions?Where in the lifecycle of our work might we end our arrangement? Early, part way through, before we have started even? What is our response to the word, 'sacking'? What other words might apply - ending, terminating?What might be the trigger, the basis for us choosing to...2022-12-1335 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 102 - Playing it safe as a coach - The one where we put a splodge of orange into our paint by numbers pictureClare and Steve talk about breaking out of our coaching comfort zone, to do and be something that we are not normally, for the benefit of our thinker. Being and doing the same old routine, holding back or playing it safe, will not serve our clients as they are all unique and deserve diverse and discrete interventions from us, to meet them where they are. But what do we risk when we stop playing it safe; when we hold back?We also talk about whether you bring diverse, vulnerable and particularly shame-based aspects of your coaching into the...2022-11-2233 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 101 - Disruption and interruption during coaching - The one where the drilling won't stopIn this episode Clare and Steve explore disruption and interruption. Whether they be third party, client or coach interruptions, auditory or visual interruptions in the 'Zoomworld', or disruptions we plan to spark new learning for our clients; how are you impacted by disruptions and interruptions? Do you even think about your relationship to disruption and what beliefs or mindset might lie behind that? Could you explore this more in supervision? We think we certainly could!Here's the link to Clare's latest book, newly published in September. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformational-Coach-Thinking-Through-Coaching/dp/1912300826/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WZJXYQ1KZW79...2022-10-1833 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 99 - Metaphors for supervision...? - The one inspired by Forrest GumpTaking their lead from Forrest Gump’s expression “Life is like a box of chocolates”, Clare and Steve muse around the statement starter “Supervision is like…” What’s the metaphor you would use?2022-09-0628 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 97 - The one where our role shapes our stanceSteve asks - “How is it different if we come to supervision as a coach or if we come as a supervisee?” Clare and Steve explore how changing the name of the role we hold in the coaching and supervision relationships can impact how we come. Some supervisors refer to the coaches as supervisees, some do not. How do you think of yourself as you come to supervision, and if you try on the other ‘role’ how is it different for you?2022-08-2328 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 96 - The one where we explore coaching young people with Charlotte WildingClare and Steve talk with Charlotte Wilding, whose journey to coaching came via a career in teaching as a modern languages teacher. Charlotte now works with teachers and pupils to bring coaching skills into the local schools. We explore the undoubted merits of this, for the young people experiencing coaching as they make choices early in life and how that might lead to them extolling the virtues as well as returning to this form of growth as their career develops. We also touch on things to be mindful of, if you find yourself working with a client who isn't yet...2022-08-1649 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 95 - The one where life comes to life in supervisionClare and Steve explore bringing life to supervision. We tell our clients that it's not just about work, not just about the goal; that sometimes life gets in the way and that we are working with the whole person. So why is it we, as supervisees, don't always take all of ourselves to supervision? Health, parenting, burnout, menopause, retirement...2022-08-0923 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 94 - The one where we break out of the echo chamberClare and Steve look at all of the ways that we, as coaches and as supervisors, might get stuck in an echo chamber. We encourage ourselves, and you, to spread our wings and find different viewpoints or lenses through which to see the world and coaching, all in service of being a more rounded coach.2022-08-0234 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 93 - The one with the Olympic coachClare and Steve talk with John Anderson about his non-traditional route into executive coaching, from being an RAF personal trainer, through personal and pastoral development for the RAF, alongside representing GB in canoeing and then on to coaching athletes through five cycles of Olympic Games. We talk about how this journey informs his coaching beliefs and profile today. And we all agree that we wouldn’t be without supervision (of course we do, that’s what this podcast series is all about!)2022-07-2650 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 92 - The one with the bio without the ‘with me eyes’Clare and Steve discuss bio writing and what gets in our way, whether we are writing our bio for the first time or revisiting it to test whether it still describes the coach we are becoming. We notice how important it is to differentiate ourselves in our bio to make it stand out from the crowd – and we how tricky that can be, when our mindset tells us we are not any different from anyone else, or we can't sell ourselves, or we can’t say a certain thing for fear of putting people off, or we haven’t figured out wh...2022-07-1935 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 91 - The one where empathy runs into collusionClare and Steve, inspired by the Animas blog post of Nick Bolton, explore the place where empathy meets collusion. We seek to be empathetic as coaches, but when might that cross the line and become collusion with our clients? And collusion of course doesn't have to be expressed (even inadvertently), it can be implied by what we don't say or indeed by a smile, a facial movement or a shift in our posture. Our podcasters conclude that coaches should be reflecting on their work and any propensity to get this balance out of kilter is probably a trip to supervision.2022-07-1234 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 90 - The one with the body in all its intelligences, with Caroline QuaiffeClare and Steve play in the somatic sandbox with experienced somatic coach Caroline Quaiffe. Derived from Soma (Grk), somatic refers to the body in all its intelligences - including emotional intellect, moral intellect as well physical/body intellect. We also explore the field - the 'intelligence of the system' (Hellinger - family systems). Working this way is a more spacious approach which honours what is, as well as the client's desire to grow and to shift something.Caroline's website https://coach.quaifeassociates.com/Somatic Coaching Programme – leaflet and link https://quaifeassociates.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1126998. Wi...2022-07-0544 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 89 - The one with living loss all around us, with Madeleine LankstonClare and Steve discuss how grief and loss show up in coaching and in supervision, with Madeleine Lankston who finds that much of her coaching has elements of both. As we discussed it, we realised that living loss (vs bereavement) is all around us and it behoves us to process that loss so that we don’t carry the baggage of it into our future. The experience of grief and loss is different for everyone and it can accumulate, layer upon layer of loss over the course of a lifetime. Leaning into it can be affirming, validating and normalising.2022-06-2848 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 88 - The one where theatre design, teaching & a cultural / creative industries background came firstClare and Steve talk to Nicky Chambers about her history pre-coaching (it’s fascinating!!), and how she brings this previous experience and ways of being into her coaching work. She champions connectivity in all she does. We got onto one of Clare’s soapboxes, around learning to learn. Of course, we ask her when she started supervision as well, and how she has used it right from the word go to support her practice.2022-06-2149 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 87 - The one where stillness emerges from distractionsClare and Steve begin with Steve telling a story about preparing a check-in for supervision - what emerged was a check-in question, “What’s distracting you?”. From here they wander into being ready to learn and trying versus emergence - can we try too hard and does emergence serve us well sometimes? What if as coaches we tried less hard to move our client forward or to ask the right question? Is this being fully present? Following a gruesome question from Claire (yuk!), they meander towards trust and stillness in an episode where the pace simply slows as we go.2022-06-1431 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 86 - The one which explores the parenting and coaching crossover with Sorrel RobertsIn a rich, insight packed episode, Clare and Steve chat to Sorrel Roberts as they continue their mini- series of episodes with coaches who have come from a non-traditional route into coaching. Sorrel voyaged from Club Med through Lifestyle Management and working in a high net worth private family office to working at Comic Relief. Sorrel notices how much her past career has supported her in relationship management in her coaching. Sorrel, a parent herself, now works supporting working parents and grew up in a family where her mother, a coach, took a coaching approach to parenting. Sorrel is now...2022-06-0745 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 85 - The one where Clare gets shirty about adminIf you have ever worked as a sole trader for corporates, you will likely have encountered the agony that Clare and Steve discuss in this episode. In particular, they talk about the processes and practices which corporates adopt to streamline their own business processes such as procurement or payment or contracts, but which make little sense – and take lots of time - for a sole trader or limited company with one director. Listen in to hear the trials and tribulations, the additional administrative headaches that seem to come with the territory. Clare and Steve don’t have all the solutions, but...2022-05-3136 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 83 - The one where the curler plays a stone with the final stone in mindSteve asks - "do you have a strategy when you start work with a client?" Clare and Steve explore the idea that we might have a strategy and how that might still leave space for the client to make choices and guide their own coaching. Who is leading and what are they leading on in the relationship? Is this about a strategy for the how, rather than the what?2022-05-1736 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 82 - The one championing language without label in mental health, with guest Anne ArcherClare and Steve are joined by Anne Archer to explore mental health in the coaching space. As great listeners, why are we often reluctant to open up a conversation about mental health? Are we uncomfortable because of our understanding about the boundaries between coaching and therapy? Could it actually be unethical to not have the conversation? The spectrum of mental health is broad, from short-term tiredness to someone with suicidal thoughts, yet at both extremes people might appear to be functioning fully. How might supervision help? What's going on for the coach who might be avoiding approaching a client?2022-05-1043 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 81 - The one where we gain space from losing workClare and Steve explore losing work. Can we frame it differently - rather than I've lost work, I've gained space? They discover it's not just about work; what about losses more broadly? How we respond to the idea of loss - our relationship to loss - may say something about us as a coach? Some losses offer new opportunities - such as stopping the commute which used to be our downtime. How does losing work offer us the opportunity to explore what we really value?Blog post on losing my jobhttps://illuminateddandelion.com/2017/11/28/the-search-for-lost-things/2022-05-0341 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 80 - The one where we talk about making mistakesIn this episode, Clare and Steve discuss mistakes. Not only the idea that it’s ok to make mistakes in coaching – and if we don’t, then we perhaps are not challenging our clients enough, risking being “sacked” – but also the idea of making mistakes in what we bring to supervision. They decided that it’s not possible to make mistakes in what we bring to supervision, but often we hold ourselves back from bringing something for fear of it not being the “right thing” to reflect on in supervision. How can you get over that fear and bring what matters most to su 2022-04-2638 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 79 - The one where an ‘activator’ and ‘maximiser’ just gets on with it - Woo ! - with our guest Charlotte BlairContinuing the series, chatting to coaches from non-traditional backgrounds, Clare and Steve were delighted to be joined by Charlotte Blair. Now living in Australia, Charlotte began her career in tech sales and now works as a Clifton Strengths coach. Having explored Charlotte’s journey to coaching, supervision and mentor coaching, the conversation moves to reflecting on how our strengths might be one pointer to how we relate to people - which in turn, as coaches, will influence our networking, chemistry, CPD, supervision choices and how we build our business.Find Charlotte at...www.thestrengthspartners.comww...2022-04-1949 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 76 - The one with just the two of us (Clare's singing again!)Clare and Steve discuss the emergence of strong feelings towards the other party in the relationship - maybe the client, maybe the coach, maybe the supervisor? Maybe you dislike them? Maybe you fancy them? We are human after all. This DOES happen, so when it does, talk to your supervisor about it. Normalise it - others in the supervision group might also have experienced this.2022-03-2936 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 75 - The one with Clare singing the rhythm of life as we explore the rhythm of workIn today’s episode, Clare and Steve explore all of the different permutations of the rhythm and balance of work that we take on. The peaks and troughs, the phases of exploration and the exploiting, homeostasis that stops us from getting out of our comfort zone. If your rhythm is not quite as you might like it to be, maybe that is something to take to supervision to process.2022-03-2236 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 74 - The one where we talk swirly dots, jam(boards), poetry and much more, with our guest Sam IsaacsonIn today’s poddy, Clare and Steve welcome Sam Isaacson, coach, coach supervisor, author of How to Thrive as a Coach in a Digital World, to talk about technology that can support us in coaching and supervision. We went all over the place, including AI, ethics and security (pay attention if you send recordings/transcripts of your coaching via email to a mentor coach!!). He mentions several technologies that you might want to find out more about (though bear in mind that, as he said, these are not the only technologies out there): * vTime XR https://vt...2022-03-1548 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 72 - The one where we start the jigsaw without the picture, with our guest Clare SmaleSteve and Clare (yes Clare switches it up) talk with Clare Smale about the concept of finite and infinite games, applied to the world of coaching and supervision. Is either right, better, wrong, bad? Those very words are of course the finite game perspective. What’s your baseline position on the finite infinite continuum? To what extent do you feel safer in the finite world of title, qualifications, training, rank, expertise, right not wrong etc? To what extent is it more comfortable for you in the playful, free, learning, endless, ambiguous, unfinished space? The finite game, driven by ti...2022-03-0146 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 71 - The one with heat and light in the relating, with our guest Tony WorganClare and Steve continue their mini series of podcast episodes talking with coaches who have followed ‘non traditional’ routes to coaching and experiencing supervision; they talk with Tony Worgan, exploring his journey from journalism into coaching and supervision. Tony compares and contrasts relating in coaching and in journalistic interviewing and our threesome go on to explore the potential unconscious questioner agenda within questioning. Tony shares his first experiences of coaching and supervision. Our conversation turns to the maturity of the coach, comparisonitis when turning up in group supervision; how the real work starts when we reflect on how we are show...2022-02-2249 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 70 - The one where we might have mentioned our artworkClare and Steve use themselves to demonstrate how their hobbies, pastimes and passions show up in their coaching, as a way to encourage you to discover your unique blend of coaching. You are a whole person and what you choose to do in your non-working life will have an influence in the coaching room too. It’s time to bring these out of the shadows and to reflect once more on how you have written your coaching bio. Who are you REALLY? Is your bio representative of all of who you are and all of how you show up in co...2022-02-1533 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 69 - The one where the candle wick is flooded, with our guest Johanna HooperClare and Steve continue their mini series of podcast episodes talking with coaches who have followed ‘non traditional’ routes to coaching and experiencing supervision; this time talking with Johanna Hooper about her journey from the high seas (the Navy) into coaching and how she uses supervision, both one-to-one and group. We touched on what Johanna has brought into coaching from that formative experience, what she has needed to unlearn and the shifts in how she now approaches supervision compared to when she first started.2022-02-0841 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 67 - The one where personal learning emerges with our guest Dave StittClare and Steve talk with Dave Stitt, as they start a mini-series of podcast episodes talking with coaches who have followed ‘non-traditional’ routes to coaching and experiencing supervision. Dave, from a background in the construction industry, shares his journey into coaching and how he discovered supervision more than a decade after he started coaching. Now he’s a convert and values the 1-2-1 learning and support that supervision offers over and above training courses. The three of us go on to explore personal learning - learning about ourselves - versus group or batch learning, which our journey through education and wo...2022-01-2541 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 66 - The one which uncontrollably becomes the toy episodeClare and Steve stumble over the topic of disorganised and unorganised in the ‘green room’ and so explore it. Meandering through disorganised, unorganised, organised, time pressure, a sense of control, routine and other experiences, our podcasters invite listeners to understand their own personal experience of these terms. We can be minded to jump to fixing something, by buying a tool or hiring some assistance, but being curious about ourselves can identify a benefit from being unorganised. They use toys, specifically spinning toys, to unravel how perspective and frame can alter our perspective of what is, and what needs to be. Fina...2022-01-1834 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 65 - The one where we have fun and giggle our way to successAs coaches, we so rarely bring things to celebrate to supervision. Clare and Steve want to put that right, and they have a good giggle about it along the way. This episode is a wide-ranging exploration of what you might bring to supervision to celebrate and learn from, and how you might celebrate yourself and your peers in a supervision group. It also uncovers why we might be resistant to celebrating successes.2022-01-1138 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 64 - The one where we transition from coach to supervisorClare and Steve share their journey to becoming supervisors and talk about the differences and similarities between being a coach and being a supervisor. They begin to unpack the role of a supervisor, and they discuss their motivations for becoming one as well as what they get from being a supervisor - what’s different and what’s the same as a coach and a supervisor.2022-01-0446 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 63 - The one with an emerging dependency awarenessClare and Steve discuss this in the context of coaching and supervision. Does dependency only relate to longevity of relationship? Is dependency in fact merely fulfilling some sort of unfulfilled need? A craving? How might exploration of what draws us to be a coach, work with a coach, work with a supervisor, reveal a propensity to become dependent on that draw? Maybe dependency isn’t simply a bad thing but in fact an opportunity to explore unmet needs? Perhaps dependency becomes a negative when coach and client (or coach and supervisor) both get an unfulfilled need (unconsciously) and find themselves tr...2021-12-1428 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 62 - The one with gold mindsClare and Steve talk with Katie Friedman and Helen Frewer about neurodiversity in coaching and supervision. A fascinating exploration of the gold that neurodiversity provides, and how, as coaches and supervisors, we need to work on seeing everyone as resourceful, creative and whole as we may have some unconscious biases towards the deficit model (as Clare so deftly but inadvertently showed when she talked about red flags). Working with neurodiversity means using all of our coaching skills on steroids.2021-12-0750 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 61 - The one where we dress for the partClare and Steve discuss front stage / back stage. Just like the theatre, we show up in life playing roles where our well-rehearsed selves play the part expected, whilst elements of our true selves remain undisclosed in our dressing room backstage. Clare and Steve share some examples of this from both coaching and supervision and invite listeners to consider how the set might be 'constructed' when we work with our clients or with our supervisor and as a consequence which parts of us we unconsciously choose to keep hidden.2021-11-3024 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 60 - The one where we try to break freeClare and Steve explore the question “Do you ever feel stale, stuck, restricted or formulaic in your coaching approach? Curious about our relationship to safety and risk, gain and loss, fear and confidence and to being professional, our podcasters share stories and raise the not knowing levels.2021-11-2339 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 59 - The one that transcends the cognitiveClare and Steve talk to Alex Van Oostveen about his journey into coaching and then into supervision and his move from cognitive supervision to spiritual supervision, more relationally based. We discussed echoes in the system, vibrations that transcend the cognitive and draw on intuition, energy, somatics, emotions, excluding nothing.2021-11-1645 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 58 - The one where we pay attention to the water in the fishbowlClare and Steve talk about the way that corporate culture shows up in the thinker’s beliefs, assumptions and values and how we might work with that to establish what and how they want to be within that culture. As the coach, how are we noticing the culture and is our own experience of corporate culture influencing our work? Oftentimes, we are not aware of the water in the fishbowl that we are swimming in and how that might be affecting our choices. Coaches can support their thinkers to get a better sense of the water; and supervisors can help co...2021-11-0933 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 57 - The one about the verb of relating and the noun of relationshipClare and Steve get caught in a metaphor that they cannot escape – that of chemistry. They take it further than you might ever have thought about it, into elements, periodic tables, test-tubes, petri-dishes and catalysts. All in service of understanding what it means to relate and how we need to step back and reflect on this third role in the coaching and/or supervision space of coach, thinker and relationship or supervisor, supervisee and relationship. Relating continues throughout the time that we are together, not just in the initial chemistry session. How are you relating with your supervisor? Ho...2021-11-0234 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 56 - The one with an eclectic perspectiveClare and Steve discuss ten different approaches to supervision, as described in Michelle Lucas’ book 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments:*Existential*Gestalt*Person-centred*Positive Psychology*Psychodyamic / TA centred*Solution-focused*Systemic*Thinking Environment*Transpersonal*EclecticAs part of the discussion, they notice their own style and approach, so if you want to find out more about how they each supervise, this is one for you. 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Supervision-Techniques-Approaches-Enquiries-Experiments/dp/0367481154/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&ke...2021-10-2645 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 54 - The one where Clare admits to some nervousness about saying the wrong thingSteve and Clare notice the imbalanced diversity in the pool of trained supervisors, which is a parallel to the lack of diversity in coaching which is also a parallel to a dearth of diversity in other parts of society. They discuss the matrix of history, skills, experience that make us each unique as coaches and as supervisors and they talk about matching and mismatching and what is most useful to our learning and growth. Psychological safety plays a part here, for those people who feel like they are in a minority, so that supervisees can bring the whole of themselves...2021-10-1240 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 53 - The one where we end up with a different questionIs supervision too expensive?Steve and Clare are obviously biased about the answer to this question. But they chew over the value you get from the investment, and how essential it is to all coaches. People who are already in supervision would not be without it, but it can feel expensive when you embark upon a coaching journey. Trust in the process is key, but how do you know how valuable that process is if you have never experienced it? Supervision is required for most coaching bodies’ credentialing, but this is not a good reason to come. Th...2021-10-0522 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 50 - The one that saved the TitanicClare and Steve, responding to a listener’s question, explore behaviour change. As coaches we are often hired, or asked, to help a client change a behaviour. But is that all it’s cracked up to be? Could changing a behaviour in fact be pulling a base brick from the Jenga tower? Our podcasters explore the structure of behaviour and offer numerous examples of situations where behaviour change might not have been useful. Maybe behaviour change is too visible and maybe it's the hidden structures and patterns around the behaviour that our clients need a coach for? As a coach goin...2021-09-1434 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting the Lid - Episode 49 - The one with the ever so helpful sadistIn this episode, Clare and Steve talk to Simon Cavicchia about his work on shame. Rich with examples, we start with the idea that “shame is the entrance to the self” (Gershen Kaufman), an ever-present potential that does not dare speak its name. The reason it is so present is our human need for connection and our beliefs, perpetuated by introjects from parents, work, society, that “something we've experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection” (Brene Brown). Ouch! The antidote to shame is felt connection, right brain to right brain, the feeling of being welcome. But when we...2021-09-0744 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 48 - The one where we ponder the direction of coachingClare and Steve ponder the direction of coaching. Is the market saturated with an over-supply of coaches? Has the pandemic added further to the increased supply and a reduction in demand? Are organisations shifting what they are looking for and who they target coaching at? When will technology arrive and change the way we work? How do changes in what society is focused on impact us as coaches - things like mental health and the environment? What opportunities might emerge from the systems we are a part of - everything from the planet and humanity, down to the coaching and...2021-08-3127 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 47 - The one where the green room makes an appearance and we set out to learn about ourselvesClare and Steve discuss how they consider their own CPD and offer ideas about how you might too. Is CPD about skills and knowledge, or is it about personal learning - learning about yourself? Do we have a plan for our learning? How do we decide what learning we engage with? Where does supervision and mentor coaching fit alongside courses, books, training programmes, webinars etc? How do we synthesise, embed, integrate and apply our learning? What part does our sense of who we are as a coach, and the development of our own reflective practice play?2021-08-2435 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 46 - The one where Clare copes with the discomfort of her introClare and Steve explore how discomfort shows up in our work. We can be uncomfortable asking difficult questions, or with the response our client may have to one; we can be uncomfortable with emotions - our clients, or sharing our own. Our own values, or our personal history, can bring us discomfort when challenged in coaching or in supervision. Sometimes we can feel the discomfort from something society values or frowns on. Working with something new and unfamiliar, or particularly challenging, can also lead to feelings of discomfort … and much more. Learning to notice our discomfort and developing a willingness to...2021-08-1733 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 45 - The one with the combine harvesterIn this episode, Clare and Steve talk about harvesting the learning: understanding systemic themes in an organisation that cannot necessarily be addressed through one-to-one coaching, that instead need to be addressed through culture change across the organisation. Leadership teams often listen to what external coaches are hearing, much more than they listen to internal HR or OD practitioners. There is an ethics and confidentiality risk here, but it can be managed with some upfront planning. There is a safety question, and also a translation risk; whereby coaches might incorrectly interpret what we see and put meaning onto something which is...2021-08-1038 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 44 - The one about physical contactIn this episode, Clare and Steve talk about touch and the ethics surrounding it. They talk about anchors, holding the space, hugs as a form of closure, boundaries, humanity, cultural norms, embarrassment, embodied coaching/supervision and touch, permission to touch, releasing energy through touch, what is acceptable, contracting for touch, codes of ethics, shades of grey. They also explore personal preferences, especially in the current climate where people have not had human contact for so long.2021-08-0324 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 43 - The one with the hidden power dynamicIn this episode, Clare and Steve explore power and the hidden dynamics of power in the coach/client and the supervisee/supervisor relationship. We can unconsciously give away our power or seek to take it. In organisations as well as in relationships, power dynamics are not always where they seem to be. Do you have power over, power with, or are you accessing power within, in your relationships? With several examples, Clare and Steve indicate how power can show up in our work and invite you to consider the power balance in your formative relationships (parents, siblings, teachers etc…) which mi...2021-07-2735 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 42 - The one with the dried prunes and tandemsIn this episode, Clare and Steve muse about hiding in supervision. Steve confesses to hiding himself when tiredness got in the way and he chose to coast and take a ride on the back of the tandem instead of driving his own bike! Hiding by not bringing issues creates inequality in groups, where vulnerability is so key. Hiding behind the story, rather than focusing on themselves, prevents us from identifying the part we play in coaching relationships. Hiding behind repeating topics every time could mask something more significant. Accessing the unknown, hidden stuff is really important and can be found...2021-07-2027 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 41 - The one where exclamation marks come back to life as question marksClare and Steve chat with Steve Chapman in a rich, content-packed journey of exploration into the world of not knowing. Tethering fear and permission, our podcasters explore answers that offer only more questions, the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, leaping then looking, presentations to dandelions, the erratic behaviour that comes with stuckness and much more. This episode is so packed with curiosities, you might need to listen several times. Our podcasters and their guest conclude that if coach and client, or supervisor and supervisee, can meet each other in a genuinely playful, experimental place, then a strange sense of safety and...2021-07-1350 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 40 - The one with a shortage of pixie dustClare and Steve discuss the challenge of feedback and knowing how we are doing as a coach, when all our work is confidential and only witnessed by ourselves and our clients. They explore internal and external referencing and ask two of the biggest questions - who am I as a coach and why am I here? They suggest that understanding ‘self as instrument’ provides the framework against which we can measure our own success and that developing our reflexive skills and practice can all provide self feedback. We can then augment that through supervision, mentor coaching and well contracted co-coaching to g...2021-07-0621 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 39 - The one with a paper bag over our headsClare and Steve discuss ways we might work with our clients - face to face, telephone, virtually and some other slightly more experimental ones! What assumptions and biases are in place when we have a favourite or familiar method? What has the pandemic changed? What happens if we blend methods? Could we be more experimental, more curious? What role might supervision play in testing the boundaries we create for ourselves and enhancing our sensory acuity by trying something different?2021-06-2935 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 38 - The one where it’s a good place to end this chapterClare and Steve discuss working with story and how story shows up in coaching and supervision. Story is old thinking, often the story the client has told, and continues to tell, themselves. What we are seeking to do is create new thinking and mostly the story doesn't serve this well. Our podcasters explore how storytelling is fundamentally human, but how as supervisees we might become entangled in our client’s story, or entangle our own story with that of our client. They discuss how we can use the idea of story without seeking to widen our own understanding or be no...2021-06-2235 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 37 - The one where we discuss why corporates should invest in supervision for their internal coachesClare and Steve start with a discussion about what internal coaches might need from supervision, as coach and employee. Then they talk about how to meet the need with quality and cost in mind. Confidentiality and contracting for the boundaries of supervision are important internally. There are different complexities for internal coaches that make it harder to coach there, so it is even more important to have good quality supervision – and training that is tied to the unique needs of internal coaches in the first place. They move on to discuss the business case – coaches understand the need, but budget hold...2021-06-1532 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 36 - The one where we talk about bigger things than the individual with Peter HawkinsClare and Steve meet with Peter Hawkins for a wide ranging and provocative discussion about where supervision has come from and where it needs to go in order to keep the coaching profession fit for purpose in an ever changing world. They discuss ‘decolonialisation’, and moving away from individualised development towards the wider system, through team coaching and the inclusion of ecology in the room. Co-creation of thinking between coach, thinker and other stakeholders past, present and future who are not even in the room; chemistry and coaching sessions that consider the whole system, embodied knowing... and much more! 2021-06-0842 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 35 - The one where we listen with Grandpa and Artificial Intelligence rules the worldClare and Steve discuss a scenario about the future of coaching using AI, where AI augments what the human can offer rather than replacing them. They look at how AI can spot patterns and join dots that coaches might miss and that the learning can be live in the moment rather than sometime later, so useful for the Thinker in the session. They also ponder on how the coach would stay present with the Thinker if data was being presented by the AI through a format that might be distracting. They question how biased or not an AI might be...2021-06-0146 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 34 - The one where we explore metaphors for our energyClare and Steve talk about energy, how we have more energy (sometimes) for things that are new (like the first lawn mowing of the season) and how energy can get trapped in our body and need an outlet (like dancing). We talk ebb and flow, push and pull, bulldog clips, drains and radiators, kites and anchors, whirlwinds, owls and larks, phases of the moon, jetlag when the clocks change, going, going, going, flop, dialling up, energy viruses, contagion, ripple effects, belonging, rubber sheaths (!!), bubbles, sheets of glass, painting. Can you tell it was a fun one to record?2021-05-2539 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 33 - The one where we can't see the person because they are hidden by the problemClare and Steve discuss coaching the person not the problem. Maybe it’s our patterns of learning through education and organisational working that leads to us as coaches trying to fix the problem, resolve the issue, help achieve the goal? But what might we be missing by not fully noticing the person in front of us - how they show up, their baseline state, what is meaningful for them, how we experience them etc. because we are drawn to the presenting issue and a desire to fix that? Is that a learned behaviour and are we overly focused on demonstrating va...2021-05-1843 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting the Lid - Episode 32 - The one where Steve's heart was in his mouthClare and Steve explore note taking and record keeping. They discuss best practice with regard to notes taken during a session; notes taken after a session about the session; reflexive notes about ourselves as a coach; records for accreditation. They also discuss how we store those notes, whether they are locked away or password protected, and the risks such as ethical or even criminal implications of not having good process here. Not a subject discussed sufficiently by coaches perhaps and something that could come to supervision more often?Coaching at Work article - when the police come knocking...2021-05-1126 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting the Lid - Episode 31 - The one where we explore 'Am I good enough?'Clare and Steve explore the question coaches in supervision often ask. “Am I good enough?” Our podcasters unpack uncertainty, self-doubt and ‘comparisonitis’. Whether it be as a newly qualified coach or an experienced practitioner, we all have self doubts sometimes. Often this arises from comparison. Comparison to our coach trainer, our peers. Comparison to how we perform in other skills. Comparison between our successes as a coach and those relationships that go less well. Comparison between what we know and what we should know, and comparison of our perceived self image and the reality of what transpires. Clare and Steve share pe...2021-05-0441 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting the Lid - Episode 30 - The hunt for the elusive killer questionClare and Steve explore the search to go deeper, the hunt for the killer question, the desire to turn a lightbulb on for our client. They explore, with stories, how some of the best coaching comes, not from trying too hard to do those things, but more from the depth and quality of our listening. From the space we create for our clients, our thinkers, to do their own thinking and for us to be witness to that. Maybe we should let ourselves off the hook, release ourselves from the pressure arising from a desire to be clever, to do...2021-04-2734 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 29 - The one where we explore taking a drink of water when we didn’t know we were thirsty - resilience with JoshClare and Steve welcome Josh Connolly to explore resilience. Josh speaks from personal experience and works with organisations to explore what resilience is and what it’s not. Josh describes resilience, not as toughness, because plastic is tough, but eventually reaches a breaking point. Instead, we need to be elastic, able to return to our form and intended purpose. Together the three podcasters explore how we have become hardwired to work cognitively; to move away from our emotions. They discuss how, more than ever, what we need are great listeners who can offer the space for people struggling with their me...2021-04-2041 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 28 - The one with plectrums, buttons and milk jiggers - accessing multiple intelligencesClare and Steve explore the various ways we might access different intelligences so as to harvest new awareness and new learning. They share some of the approaches they use in supervision. These include use of the environment and nature. Use of imagery, drawing and metaphor. Using physical, somatic approaches such as Constellations; or movements around the room to stand in the truth of what is, or what might be, should you follow one of a number of choices. Exploring feelings and a felt sense in the body; perhaps attributing these to named emotions or enquiring as to what those feelings...2021-04-1340 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 27 - My client has gone AWOLClare and Steve explore scenarios when our clients go missing and how this topic arises in the supervision space. They discuss the space we hold as coaches for our clients when they are not present for a longer than expected period. Space that might simply be logistical or might also be deeper in our psyche. Our podcasters reflect too on how often in supervision the supervisee appears to have given away their power, become smaller in the relationship and maybe has started to tell themselves a story about their ‘hard to pin down’ client. Clare and Steve discuss clients who disa...2021-04-0635 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 26 - The one where the supervisor is seen as the wizardClare and Steve explore coaches coming to supervision seeking a ‘how to’. Our podcasters reflect on how often supervisees see the supervisor as the mentor, the guru, the experienced one, the wizard even, who can offer them an idea or a solution to their stuckness. They explore approaches they use in supervision to build reflexivity. To support supervisees in developing new ways of seeing their stuckness or understanding their own relationship to stuckness or this particular example of it. In group supervision they may support the group to develop their questioning in service of the stuck supervisee. Clare and Steve talk...2021-03-3031 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 25 - The one where Clare tends to, no, always chooses that wayClare and Steve explore how to choose a supervisor or change our supervisor. What might be part of your process? Do you have a process? Do you know where to look and how to find a supervisor? Steve and Clare offer some tips and insights from their own experience and process. Make your choice a conscious one - don’t become lazy or look for an easy option and don’t choose one for the wrong reasons. Be prepared to ask around - either professional bodies, coaches you may know or meet, or indeed supervisors themselves for perhaps a trial sess...2021-03-2328 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 24 - The one where we don’t want to over egg the puddingClare and Steve explore endings. They reflect on the challenges coaches sometimes have with endings and how maybe that reflects the coach’s own experience of endings in their life more broadly or reflects directly on their own needs as a coach. Our podcasters explore timings in sessions, knowing when to end and maybe when not to. They explore programmes of work and challenge the idea of long coaching relationships. They unpack experiences of not ending; of something that is left with the coach even after the client has long departed. Endings enable beginnings and are a crucial part of wh...2021-03-1628 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 23 - The one with the stretchy triangleClare and Steve explore contracting. Focusing on the contract in supervision they discuss the procedural, the professional and the psychological aspects of the contracting process. They explore some of the differences you might consider between working in a group or one to one with a supervisor and also the other watch-outs when the contract is more complex, for example working within organisations or in an associate model. They speak about connection prior to contract and go on to discuss some of the many elements you might include in your contracting with your supervisor, or indeed as a coach with your...2021-03-0927 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 22 - The one with the little voice saying, “I hate doing these"Clare and Steve explore chemistry sessions. Something our training sometimes overlooks but something that presents a great opportunity for reflection and self learning as we will likely do many of them. It helps us, in supervision to explore our signature presence, the values and beliefs that shape who we are and how we show up as our clients meet us for the first time. Our podcasters explore how we might structure chemistry; the things we routinely include or maybe exclude. They highlight the importance of connection at a human level, and explore where chemistry fits when you’ve already been ma...2021-03-0224 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 21 - The one where we invite our first guest - discussing bereavement, grief and lossClare and Steve are joined by Julia Menaul for an exploration of grief, loss, death and bereavement in coaching and supervision. Julia, a master coach, supervisor, director of AoCS and an author, explores with Clare and Steve the story that lead to her co-authoring a book on this topic, to be published in 2022. Together our podcasters and guest explore our personal, societal and cultural relationships to death. They also discuss how grief and loss come in many more guises - be it loss of job, divorce, the pandemic, and can also show up in perceived positive experiences, such as retirement...2021-02-2341 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 20 - The one where size really does matterClare and Steve explore what they mean when they refer to the system as it might show up in coaching and supervision. They explore the hidden dynamic and architecture of relationships, not just between people but between individuals and abstract constructs such as the future. They discuss nested systems, family systems, professional and organisational systems and how to bring awareness to the unconscious - whether it be using a tabletop map with buttons, cups or plectrums, or whether physically standing in relationship to those people and abstract entities. In supervision we have the opportunity to be vulnerable and...2021-02-1635 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 19 - The one where the background ‘Ha!’ suggests we don’t know it allClare and Steve continue to build on the lockdown series of podcasts by exploring the nature of vulnerability and its place in supervision. Our podcasters explore the negative connotation that comes with being vulnerable and, using Brene Brown’s work, explore how the need for connection and the fear of disconnection drives us to hide vulnerability or fear being truly vulnerable. They discuss how to build trust and how, to find connection, you have to open yourself up to be truly seen. They move on to explore how society and even the coaching profession itself sets us up to fear vu...2021-02-0925 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 18 - The one where we ask ‘genuinely, deeply, how are you?’Clare and Steve build on the lockdown series of podcasts by exploring emotions and how they might surface in supervision. They discuss what emotions are, how they are distinct from bodily feelings, and their purpose - why do we have emotions? They explore how social and group culture, be it organisation, family, friends don’t encourage exploration of emotions and how we seek to move on quickly or apply a sticking plaster. Supervision provides an alternative space in which to unpack an emotional response and to acknowledge 'what is', as well as providing the opportunity to begin to wi...2021-02-0229 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 17 - The one where the answer doesn’t come in the form of a 9” dinner plateClare and Steve build on the lockdown metaphor to explore the imperative that we bring all of ourselves to supervision. How are we impacted in all the dimensions of our lives by lockdown and the pandemic? How is it impacting our thinking, our body, our behaviour, our emotions? They propose that supervision isn’t just about the client and the coaching work but is more systemic. Bringing the whole of ourselves means considering all of the systems and contexts we operate in, not just the systems the client is in. This might include the shared experiences and impacts fr...2021-01-2630 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 16 - The one where we’re all in the same boat, or seaClare and Steve explore the shared global experience of lockdown. The pandemic has offered us perhaps one of the most widely shared experiences of our generation and our podcasters take some time to lift the lid on this and how as a metaphor it has brought new language, new awareness and new needs for human connection amongst other things. They relate these topics, and more, to the world of coaching and explore what is already turning up in supervision as well as hypothesising what we may see more of in 2021. They unpack the opportunity for exploration through time...2021-01-1929 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 15 - The one with 'eagle-eared quadripartite' meetingsClare and Steve explore the ways in which additional interested parties show up in contracting our coaching - line managers, HR, L&D, spouse, parents… They reflect on how little training coaches have for tripartite meetings and how this is certainly a factor in it coming to supervision regularly. They explore examples such as the line manager not showing up (physically or emotionally), the client not showing up, a conflict between parties as to the coaching goals and the motivation for the coaching work. Our podcasters then unpack some examples of how boundaries and confidentiality can be challenged because of th...2021-01-1234 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 14 - The one where it has to be pronounced clearlyClare and Steve explore mentor coaching. What is it and how does it work? Recordings, transcripts, competency based feedback, one to one or in groups. Clare, author of a book on mentor coaching, shares her vast experience. They open up the conversation to explore coach training and how we might use mentor coaching and supervision to keep gaining feedback on ourselves as the coach, as we did in training, so as to ‘keep the tool sharp’. Coaches are sometimes nervous about such scrutiny and yet many report it as invaluable once they have experienced it. Steve reflects from his time desi...2021-01-0527 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 13 - The one where useful trumps helpful and we’re all proud of ClareClare and Steve explore what we are responsible for as coaches. Do you see yourself as a service provider and therefore strive too hard to help your client achieve their goal? Clare brings models such as the drama triangle and the ego state from TA to highlight where we may stray. Could being useful be a better way to be than being helpful? Our podcasters go on to explore what we are responsible for as a coach, including the process of coaching, working in an ethical way, modelling good boundaries and learning. They also tell stories...2020-12-1429 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 12 - The one where Steve can name some weird parts of the brain nowClare and Steve explore what might be stopping coaches from coming to supervision. They explore time and cost. But is supervision just an expense or is it about understanding what value can be gained? How do we decide to invest in ourselves and do we make the same investment choices when attending a course or making a purchase as we do when opting in or out of supervision? If not, what is different? How have past experiences influenced your decision? What if you turned your coaching skills towards yourself and asked why you aren’t coming to supervision? Qu...2020-12-0724 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 11 - The one with the cairn of coloured stonesClare and Steve explore the difference between coaching and supervision. Whilst there are many similarities in terms of approach, Clare and Steve discuss some of the similarities and differences when it comes to the relationship, the expertise, the learning and the content of the discussions using a metaphor around a cairn of stones. They talk about the supervisory role to uphold coaching standards, about teaching and assurance in supervision and why it’s not policing. They also talk about the development of reflexive practice as an ongoing focus of supervision and about depth and vulnerability as it...2020-11-3041 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 10 - The one where we explore taking business related questions to supervisionClare and Steve explore the topic of whether it is ok to bring commercial or business related questions to supervision. As a coach, can I talk about the balance of my work or about my business set up in supervision? Can I discuss the challenge of turning my coaching into a profitable business, or talk about my marketing with my supervisor? Should I bring to supervision choices that I make to win business, even if I know that they might not be entirely ethical? Where is the boundary when it comes to business related matters for...2020-11-2329 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 9 - The one with coaching in pyjamasClare and Steve explore how we as coaches might get stuck in familiar ‘ruts’. They unpack how supervision might be useful in challenging our thinking. Do we coach similar clients in similar locations, in similar ways? What stops us experimenting? What part does our personal history and consequent alignment to risk taking or familiarity play? Have you tried using familiar tools in unfamiliar contexts - for example using drawing with a telephone client? Have you experimented with a familiar technique, going off piste, and did something better emerge? When you think about doing something new or unfa...2020-11-1632 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 8 - The one where we bring ourselves back to ourselvesClare and Steve explore how we as coaches might manage our own energy levels and resource ourselves, as they continue to develop the 'restorative' aspects of what to take to supervision. They discuss energy and the interplay and impact of those rising and falling energy levels for all aspects of our lives, not just coaching. Touching on areas such as self doubt, celebration and success, Clare and Steve consider what else might restore us in supervision and how we might plan our CPD to align with becoming the coach we want to be.2020-11-0916 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 7 - The one that begins 'Once upon a time…'Clare and Steve continue to develop the theme of what to take to supervision. Their focus this time is on the 'formative' element - the learning that can take place. Rich with examples ranging from boundaries to the winner’s triangle and from working with the body to noticing systemic patterns, Clare and Steve explore how supervisees might come to supervision to learn.2020-11-0231 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 6 - The one where terrorism 'hasn't ever raised its ugly head'Clare and Steve develop the theme of what to take to supervision. We talk further about those ‘normative’ aspects which ensure our work is ethical and professional. We explore boundaries between coaching and counselling, accounting for organisational rules and procedures, as well as safety - How we might be alert to the potential for physical, mental and psychological harm to ourselves or our clients?2020-10-2623 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 5 - The one with the backpackThe one with the backpack.Clare and Steve explore what we might bring to supervision as a supervisee.They cover boundaries, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, collusion, successes and much more. They also explore what it means to show up as a supervisee, with our client work in service of that rather than instead of that. They start to explore what it means to develop a reflexive practice as a coach.This podcast is supported by:The Association of Coaching Supervisors https://www.associationofcoachingsupervisors.com/supervisors/searchMcGraw Hill Publishing...2020-10-1923 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 4 - Preparing and Checking InSo, you have a supervision session approaching - maybe your first, maybe not? How do you prepare for your supervision? Clare and Steve discover they have a very different approach. As supervisors they share how they might help their supervisees to ‘check in’ and be fully present for the supervision.This podcast is supported by:The Association of Coaching Supervisors https://www.associationofcoachingsupervisors.com/supervisors/searchMcGraw Hill Publishinghttps://www.mheducation.co.uk/mentor-coaching-a-practical-guide-9780335248797-emea-group 2020-10-1224 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 3 - Routes into SupervisionClare and Steve share their own stories of their first experience of coaching supervision as novice coaches; they go on to explore peer supervision, co-coaching, supervision ‘lite’, group supervision and one to one supervision so that you can plan a route into supervision that’s right for you.This podcast is supported by:The Association of Coaching Supervisorshttps://www.associationofcoachingsupervisors.com/supervisors/searchMcGraw Hill Publishinghttps://www.mheducation.co.uk/mentor-coaching-a-practical-guide-9780335248797-emea-group 2020-09-2937 min

Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 1 - Introduction and ContractingIntroducing this podcast series, Clare Norman and Steve Ridgley discuss their experiences of Coaching Supervision - good and bad! They discuss how coaches make the most from supervision, how to help them to understand what it feels like and the kind of things you might bring to supervision. Helping you to get underneath the surface so you get a better picture of what supervision is, what it isn't and how to make the most of it. This podcast is supported by:The Association of Coaching Supervisorshttps://www.associationofcoachingsupervisors.com/supervisors/searchMcGraw...2020-09-2416 min