Coach Supervision

‘Supervision is a place where a living profession breathes and learns…supervision can be a very important part of taking care of oneself, staying open to new learning’
Hawkins and Shohet

“A regular, protected time for facilitated in-depth reflection on coaching practice”
(Adapted from Bond and Holland, 1998)

Before engaging a supervisor, you may find this helpful:

https://coachingsupervisionacademy.com/home/csa-supervision/#benefits

Benefits

• Deepen your self–awareness and strengthen your skills as a coach
• Safeguard your practice ethically
• Build confidence and creativity
• Explore your work and any challenging client issues in a safe learning environment
• Pay attention to the ethics of coaching and how to handle complex boundary issues

What is supervision? Supervision is sometimes described as coach-mentoring. Experiential learning is at the heart of supervision. It is conversation-based learning between two professionals – a working alliance. The objective of this alliance is to give the best possible service to clients.

Why do I need a supervisor or coach-mentor? Primarily to develop your competence as a coach. Having the opportunity to reflect on your work, and talk through tricky client issues to explore different approaches will help both you and your clients.

Having a Supervisor helps you to gain Professional Work:   Increasingly, organisational buyers of coaching are specifying that external coaches working for them should be in regular supervision.

Achieve Professional Accreditation: Many professional coaching bodies are now either insisting or advocating strongly that members receive regular supervision.

Fees

Special Offer for Newly Qualified coaches (6 months or less): £70 per one-hour session for first six sessions.

Individual fee: £85 per one-hour session by telephone; £100 face-to-face (plus travel expenses outside of 20 mile radius of Chester). Group supervision on site: £150 per hour (plus travel expenses).

Please contact me for a no-obligation discussion about the benefits of supervision on your coaching practice.

Lisa has trained with the Centre for Supervision Training and with the Coaching Supervision Academy and holds a Diploma in Coaching Supervision. She regularly supervises the coaching development of manager-coaches, as well as independent practitioners.

Creative Personal & Team Development

Story Work

Storytelling is the oldest form of human communication. It is a way to inspire, share values and knowledge, a way to connect with others powerfully and gain personal insights.

Stories in Organisations:

Story is a very powerful personal development tool in business. Story can transform your business, improving your decision making and communication skills. Story encourages innovative thinking and is highly motivating as it focuses on success in your team and common-values. Positive Lives offers bespoke workshops and training programmes for you and your organisation to benefit from this simple yet powerful communication and development tool, including the highly acclaimed “Story Cafe”.

We also offer team development workshops, using “story circles” to develop meaningful conversations for eg, discovering shared values, exploring and learning from critical or significant incidents, articulating and co-creating Vision.

Evaluation:

All our organisational story projects can be evaluated, using our evaluation framework which has been formally assessed through a rigorous academic process. The evaluation framework can be adapted to suit your needs and outcomes.

Our Creative Development Services

Story Cafes – Stories for Wellbeing:

Story Cafes are designed for staff development, and for mental health service users. Story Cafes are a relaxed, informal environment where people can listen to stories, from the traditional folk tale to contemporary stories.  Stories, with their simple format and humour, have a profound influence on how people feel about themselves. At one level, simply enjoyable; at another level, a way of gaining personal insights, connecting with others and improving social skills. Our Story Cafes are aligned with the 5 Ways to Wellbeing which we endorse and promote.

Benefits include:

• Improves sense of Wellbeing
• Improves social and communication skills
• Creates social connection and strengthens community
• Gives an experience of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing
• Contributes to service improvement programmes
• Builds effective teams upon shared values

Story Skills Training

We also offer a programme of training workshops for  leaders and managers who want to develop their communication skills to motivate others, or to improve client engagement and make service improvements (eg Personalisation, Recovery agenda). Content includes story gathering skills, story writing skills, stories for communicating vision, working strategically with stories, learning from organisational stories and storytelling ethics. Plus tools and tips from our acclaimed publication “Story Skills for Managers: Nurturing Motivation with Teams” (Wall & Rossetti).

Team Development Workshop

We use a blend of story telling, appreciative inquiry and facilitated group discussion based on our unique “Story Cafe” model. Its aims are to develop engaged teamwork, innovative thinking, communication skills and confidence. This workshop prepares the ground for real and meaningful organisational culture change, by creating an emergent and safe space for creative ideas, reflective insights and knowledge sharing. This programme offers a way to create confidence in the team and in the future.

Benefits include:

• Strengthening relationships and teamwork
• Inspiring people to change
• Supporting Culture Change by generating better buy-in
• Promoting Knowledge-sharing
• Stimulating open discussion about service improvements

Words for Wellbeing:

Words for Wellbeing is a 6-8 session creative writing programme which can be rolled out in staff development, health and adult community learning settings. Our creative writing programmes are aligned with the 5 Ways to Wellbeing which we endorse and promote. We can also deliver Words for Wellbeing as part of a Recovery College programme for mental health service users.

Benefits of “Words for Wellbeing”:

• Improves Self-Development and Self-Esteem
• Improves Communication Skills through Creative Writing
• Improves Reflective Skills
• Develops stronger connections to Community
• Expresses shared Values
• Enhances Wellbeing and Confidence

Fees

Your requirements are unique to you. We will do our best to respond to your needs, be flexible in our approach, and come up with a cost-effective solution for you.

As a guide:

• An hour’s presentation to your team or conference: £150
• A half-day workshop: £350 (£250 for Voluntary Organisations, Social Enterprises)
• A full-day workshop: £700 (£500 for Voluntary Organisations, Social Enterprises)
• Words for Wellbeing programme for community groups – £100 per 2-hour session.