Coaching Supervision - what's it all about?
- Martin Benefer
- May 12
- 2 min read
Updated: May 13
What Is Supervision?
Supervision is the opportunity to reflect, learn and grow, personally and professionally. There are 3 key functions of supervision, available to help you as a professional coach navigate the world of coaching, your coaching business, your coaching clients and to better understand yourself as a coach:
NORMATIVE - Helping you ensure you stay on track as a professional coach - this involves looking at the ‘norms’ of coaching, helping you review best practice to ensure you’re operating ethically and competently as a coach
FORMATIVE - Helping you learn & develop your coaching approach - this involves helping you ‘form’ your approach by refreshing and developing your skills, knowledge and awareness as a coach
RESTORATIVE - Helping you restore yourself as a coach - this involves helping you restore yourself mentally, physically and emotionally, enabling you to do your best work as a coach
Coaching vs Supervision
There are many overlaps between coaching and supervision with both disciplines able to cover a breadth of topics in a variety of ways, making the differences within them perhaps as great or greater than the differences between them. And yet there are a few broad differences that I find useful to keep in mind as principles for myself and to help when contracting with supervisees:
Supervision is more about helping you as a professional coach to ultimately support your clients, whether directly by exploring specific challenges or indirectly by helping you restore in order to be at your best
Supervision is often more about learning than about clear goals and outcomes and therefore lends itself to a different type of relationship
It feels different
The relationships that form in supervision allow for a different type of connection and exploration.
Process and outcomes take a backseat and awareness and insight take centre stage.
My Approach
Supervision builds on the work I love as a coach, tutor and mentor and allows me to support clients in a different way. I use models, frameworks and various approaches (and will happily share them with clients as we go) in order to facilitate conversations, challenge current thinking and provide fresh perspectives to help clients learn and grow.
My goal is to create open, relaxed and engaging environments where my clients and I can be fully present, do our best work and enjoy the experience.
My outlook is to help you think, not tell you what to think.
If you'd like to know more or discuss your supervision needs please get in touch!
Martin
For more information go to www.stillwater-coaching.co.uk
Phone: (+44) 07969 653 024
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