Deepening your practice as a school leadership coach

Are you a coach working with school leaders?

Do you have the support you need to meet your clients’ needs as well as your own?

As a coach, you focus in your work on supporting your clients through challenging periods of growth, change and transition. You help them reflect on the complexity of their work and the entanglements they experience and, depending on your training and capacity, your enquiry can take you both quite far below the surface. This demands a lot of you, which in turn means you must be well supported yourself if you are to work as effectively as your clients need. This is where supervision comes in.

My group supervision programmes are designed specifically for coaches working with school leaders on complex issues.

Participating in these groups will enable you to:

Work more effectively - you will have a confidential space in which to discuss your coaching work, exploring with others how you might address challenges and dilemmas that may be concerning you. Whether these are practical or philosophical, the aim is to improve your ‘fitness to practice’.

See the full picture - even the most experienced coaches have blind spots, which is why they engage in supervision. These spaces provide you with an opportunity to explore how your own perceptions, experiences and drives may be influencing your capacity to do the work your clients need you to do.

Develop your practice - whether you’ve been coaching for 20 years or 20 weeks, you will quite often feel out of your depth and unsure what to do. My programmes enable you to access the wisdom of a group, and to see your issues through the lens of many experienced and well-qualified eyes.

Explore your own entanglements - the very nature of coaching requires us to become caught up in the unconscious dynamics of our client relationships. There is no avoiding this, but it is all too easy to avoid thinking about it. Not here! Here we will think carefully together about the impact of our entanglements, and how to work with them.

Care for yourself - your work as a coach is both filling and draining, so these supervision spaces provide a space for you to vent and offload what might otherwise ‘corrupt’ your work, and to replenish your energy for the work you have to do.

Connect generatively with others - coaching can be lonely and isolating, so these spaces are designed to enable connection between participants, fostering a sense of belonging to the group and to a wider community of coaches with common aims and desires.

Each group supervision programme will comprise a series of six sessions, each lasting two hours and held online once per half-term. There will be a maximum of six participants in each programme.

Depending on numbers, the programme fee is likely to be around £395 plus VAT per person, payable in advance upon booking.

So, if you are working actively as a coach to school or MAT leaders, have an interest in developing your capacity by exploring what’s really going on in your work, and are prepared to engage fully in a group supervision process, I am now taking expressions of interest.

You will find more about my capacity to facilitate supervision programmes like this here, but please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have.