1st June 2018
The Global Supervisors’ Network is delighted to be partnering with EthicalCoach, the philanthropic arm of WBECS, to support trainee coaches in Africa. The vision of Ben Croft, the founder of WBECS, is to bring world class coaches to NGO leaders tackling the world’s most challenging environmental and humanitarian issues as defined by the United Nations’ […]
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14th April 2018
The EMCC coaching, mentoring and supervision conference in Amsterdam 11-13 April was memorable, with so many excellent sessions. Thank you to everyone involved. As usual it was difficult to choose between several interesting speakers and workshops. In her session entitled “Corporate Soul” about understanding your purpose, one of the the speakers, Gillian McMichael used a […]
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25th March 2018
I’ve been reflecting on the use of recordings in supervision and training as I believe they can be very helpful in our personal and professional development. There is something different about discussing what we remember about our coaching or mentoring second-hand, compared to listening to what really happened. We all have our blind spots, or […]
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16th February 2018
It has been quite a week with my first book going to the publishers, Routledge. It is called “The Heart of Coaching Supervision – working with Reflection and Self-care” and is edited by myself and Professor Stephen Palmer. I am so grateful to the chapter authors such as Professor Peter Hawkins, Eunice Aquilina, Jackee Holder, Professor […]
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13th January 2018
A few years ago I trained as a supervisor at Oxford Brookes University. One of the toughest, most challenging and ultimately rewarding assignments was to explain our model. We needed to demonstrate that…
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30th September 2017
I am currently reading “The Sage Handbook of Coaching” edited by Tatiana Bachkirova, Gordon Spencer and David Drake. It is an ambitious undertaking, seeking as it does to present “an account of this fast developing discipline, to map out where it is going, and to identify the key debates and issues that are influencing coaching practice […]
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