Coach Supervision

As a coach, are you willing to invest in your professional self?

Supervision is an oft-overlooked, and necessary, part of a coach’s ongoing growth and development. A coach in ongoing supervision — either 1-1 or in a group context — is committed to honing their presence as a coach and to the mastery of their craft through connection and ongoing learning.

Working with a supervisor is one of the primary means of self-care to ensure your professional life and personal development are thriving. Many coaches experience and feel isolated and alone in both solo practice and common consultancy models. The antidote to burnout and isolation is connection and community.

In order for clients to experience transformation in the coaching container, the coach must unwaveringly travel the path of transformation themselves.

Practical Skills + Radical Self-Inquiry + Shared Experiences
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Greater Resiliency and Equanimity for Coaches

Here, you’ll find a connection with other coaches in a professional context that fosters ongoing learning and personal growth.

To be a more effective coach is to know yourself and what you bring to situations, as well as how to be in service to what is larger than you and what is unsaid and emergent in any space, be it 1-1 or in facilitation. You are holding the space for transformation for the client or group you are facilitating. This requires you, as a human being, to be attuned to you, your relationships, your environment, and what’s emerging in the interstices of all three of those spaces.

At its core, this requires you to continue the work of knowing yourself and how you show up in the world. Coaching supervision is that place to reflect deeper on your coaching practice.

Coaching is a calling. How we answer that call affects how we show up for our clients. Beyond the skills of coaching, the emotional and professional development we invest in for ourselves can be pivotal. What steps do you have in place for your growth? If not, what stops you from doing so?

Often, coaches in solo practice can feel isolated. Feelings are a rich part of the work. It’s hard to find a group of professional peers to continue learning and growing from so that you are bolstered as a practitioner in your work in the world. The pressure to earn an income, create a brand, and run a business has similar traps as entrepreneurs: merging their identity with their work and their company. And, most coaches forget that they need a supervisor (and a therapist), too, so that they have a safe emotional outlet and a way to learn from and process all that comes up in their client work.

Working with a supervisor is one of the primary means of self care to ensure your professional life and personal development are thriving. (Even dentists need dentists!) Many coaches experience and feel isolated and alone in both solo practice and common consultancy models. The antidote to burnout and isolation is connection and community.

Supervision can be a one-to-one experience or in a group setting. Each offers different types of support. In a group supervision format, you may experience dynamics that may not surface in a 1-1 supervision relationship, which allows you to study and observe yourself and others–learnings that loop right back into your work with clients.