2nd International Conference in Coaching Supervision
Saturday 23 June 2012
Postgraduate Centre, Wheatley Campus, Oxford OX33 1HX
Coaching Supervision is recognised as an essential element of good practice for coaches However, it is an area that needs considerable further research and professional debate in order to understand the practice and the way it can better serve the needs of the professional community. Oxford Brookes University therefore invites everyone with an interest in the development of the coaching profession and especially coaching supervision to attend our 2nd International Conference on Coaching Supervision.
The aim of this conference is to discuss the changing landscape of coaching and what it means for supervision. Papers address conceptual, theoretical, practical issues and there will also be demonstrations of coaching supervision in action.
Our keynote speakers this year are Carol Kauffman (USA) and David Lane (UK).
To book, please contact Commercial Services on +44 (0)1865 48 45 34
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Conference price: £150 or £120 for students, staff and OBCAMS members
(includes lunch and refreshments)
Professor David Lane
Professor David Lane has been coaching for more than 30 years and supervising coaches since the late 1980's. As a supervisor his work was originally influenced by a background in clinical supervision but over the last decade he has increasingly sought to understand the specific issues that arise for supervision practice across different disciplines. He has explored the question of the need for content knowledge of the discipline for supervision practice (the expert/apprentice model) and compared that to a process lead model in which the supervisor does not have the content knowledge being accessed by the client. He runs both Masters and Doctorate programmes in coaching and supervision specialising in working with experienced practitioners through the Professional Development Foundation and Middlesex University. He has worked with a number of bodies in the coaching field to help them devise models and standards of practice.
Carol Kauffman, Ph.D. ABPP PCC
Dr. Carol Kauffman is an executive coach with over 30 years experience helping leaders raise the bar on their performance and managing their success. For the past 25 years she has taught at Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor and where she is also the Founding Director of the Institute of Coaching. Dr. Kauffman has launched and is the Chair of the annual Harvard Coaching Conference and the annual International Coaching Research Forum. She has published extensively in many venues, writing articles for professional and academic publications. She directed and authored Harvard Business Review's first research project on executive coaching. In addition to many journal articles and chapters she was Founding Co-editor in Chief, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice with Tatiana Bachkirova. Of all her professional activities Carol gets the most satisfaction from coaching leaders and seeing the ripple effect as leaders develop.
Michel Moral and Florence Lamy
Michel Moral spent most of his career in an international environment as a manager and executive. In 2003 he created a coaching and supervision practice. He holds a Master degree in Science & Technology and a Ph.D. in Psychology. He has published a total of eight books related to coaching and management. He trains coaches at University and in several coaching schools.
Florence Lamy is coach, psychotherapist and supervisor. She is specialized in business coaching working with people, teams and organizations. She teaches and supervises within two different coaching degree courses at the Université Paris VIII and at the Université Cergy Pontoise. She also has a private supervision practice.
Jackie Arnold and Edna Murdoch
Jackie Arnold is an experienced ICF executive coach and was a founding member of the UK ICF Board of Directors. She has presented at 3 ICF European Conferences, Clean Language Conference on Supervision in 2009 and in 2011 presented on Coaching Supervision at the NLP Conference in London. She has run her own executive coaching and supervision practice 'Coach 4 Executives' since 1998, is a CSA Assessor and holds a CSA Diploma in Coaching Supervision. Her latest book "Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace" How to Books, is validated by the ILM for their coaching and mentoring qualifications.
Edna Murdoch is an experienced coach and Director of the Coaching Supervision Academy, which was established in 2000 to provide CPD for coaches and to train Executive coaches in Coaching Supervision. She trained for two years in supervision at the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology London.
Alison Hodge
Alison Hodge is an EMCC accredited coach at Master Practitioner level and an APECS accredited Executive Coaching Supervisor. She has been working with individuals and groups to facilitate learning and change throughout her career and delights in the power of the relationship to heighten individuals' personal awareness and tap into their massive resource of capabilities and talents. Professionally, Alison offers individual and group supervision for coaches and consultants working primarily in the corporate world, and for those who have particular interest in individual, group and organisational change and development. She is currently reading for Professional Doctorate in Coaching Supervision at Middlesex University.
Tatiana Bachkirova
Dr Tatiana Bachkirova is an academic, coach and coaching supervisor. At Oxford Brookes University, UK, she is a Reader in Coaching Psychology, teaching and supervising on the MA and Doctoral programme in Coaching and Mentoring. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with specific professional expertise in coaching psychology and coaching supervision. Tatiana is an active researcher and author of many articles, book chapters and her recent book Developmental Coaching: Working with Self. She also co-edited Coaching and Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice with Peter Jackson and David Clutterbuck. In 2011 she received an Achievement award in recognition of distinguished contribution to coaching psychology from the BPS SGCP.
Carol Whitaker and Michelle Lucas
Carol Whitaker and Michelle Lucas both bring a wealth of business experience at board level across a range of industries to inform their coaching, mentoring and coaching supervision. Both have MBA's, PG Dip in C&M and PG Cert in Supervision from Oxford Brookes.
They are both members of the AC and EMCC. Michelle is an Accredited coach with the AC and Carol is an Accredited Coach with International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Oxford Brookes.
They run Collaborative Group Supervision programmes in both Oxford and London.
Carole Field
Carole Field is a co-founding partner at The Edge Partnership, an executive and team coaching firm in Australia and Southeast Asia. She supports leaders and top talent individually, in teams and organisations to leverage and expand on their traits; execute transitions and realise transformations. She has special interest in in coach professional development. She holds an MBA; Masters degree in the Psychology of Coaching; Bachelor degree in Communications and is currently completing her Doctoral Thesis on the Impact of Supervision on Internal Coaching.
Karyn Prentice
Karyn Prentice is an accredited coach and coaching supervisor. She is an Assistant Director at Coaching Supervision Academy. She recently authored a chapter on Transpersonal Perspectives in Coaching Supervision for a new book on coaching supervision in action. She designs and leads a range of leadership and team programmes as well as offering 1:1 and group supervision. Karyn teaches a Masters Level Reflective Practice programme for Teeside University. Together with her colleague Ian Mackenzie, 'Presence Partnership' host free monthly reflective walking sessions in London's Green Park as well as reflective walking and mindfulness outdoor events for coaches and supervisees. For more information, see www.fletcherprentice.com
Marion Gillie and Marjorie Shackleton
Marion Gillie is a coach, consultant and supervisor. A Chartered Occupational and counselling Psychologist with Masters degrees in Organisational Psychology and Gestalt Psychotherapy. She is Programme Director of the Advanced Diploma and Master Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching with the AoEC, is a coach supervisor for Oxford Brookes University and is a faculty member of the Gestalt International Study Centre in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Marjorie Shackleton divides her time between supervising and developing executive coaches and coaching senior managers and leaders. She is a Programme Director at The Academy of Executive Coaching and core faculty for Diploma Programmes in Gestalt Coaching and the Psychology of Coaching. Marjorie has a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy and has undertaken advanced Gestalt training in the UK and the USA including The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and The Gestalt International Study Center in Cape Cod.
Both Marjorie and Marion are APECS accredited coach and coach supervisors.
John Whittington
John Whittington is an executive coach and supervisor working with clients and other coaches to support the development of systemic thinking and interventions in organisations. He leads his own coaching practice with a small team of associates working across a broad range of industry sectors with executive leaders and teams. Systemic coaching and constellations are a cornerstone of his approach to coaching and the facilitation of organisational workshops. He also provides trainings in this approach in London and by invitation internationally. His first book, Systemic Coaching and Constellations has just been published.
Kate Pinder
Kate Pinder completed her certificate in the first Oxford Brookes group and has offered personal and group supervision ever since. She is particularly interested in group supervision and has written a chapter in the book published November 2011 and run workshops at conferences on the topic.
She is always keen to develop her thinking and is fascinated by this topic, hoping to challenge your own thinking. Kate has coached for the last 15 years freelance, and previously as part of her employed role. She is also a trained counsellor.
Katherine Long
Katherine Long is Director of Qualifications at The OCM, responsible for design, delivery and accreditation of coach and supervision development programmes. She has over 20 years experience in training and development, delivering cross cultural and communication programmes for global clients including Deutsche Post, KPMG, Unilever, Rolls Royce and Hewlett Packard. Katherine is author of the Diamond Model, an integrative model of authenticity, which forms the subject for her chapter 'The Self in Supervision' in Coaching and Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice. She is accredited at Master Practitioner level EIA, and is currently developing as a Focusing practitioner and short story writer, and is writing a book which examines spirituality in coaching, due to be published with the EMCC.
Terrence E. Maltbia and David Matthew Prior
Dr. Terrence E. Maltbia is a faculty member for the Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College Columbia University where he teaches graduate courses in leadership with an emphasis on emotional, social and cultural intelligence, as well as, qualitative research methods; he has over 28 years of corporate and consulting experience.
David Matthew Prior serves on the coaching faculty in the Columbia University Coaching Certification Program, and has been an executive coach and corporate trainer for 15 years with a specialization in the leadership pipeline. David works with senior leadership in communications, financial services, transportation, health care, biotech, and mining.
Professor Peter Hawkins
Professor Peter Hawkins, joint founder (1986) and Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in organisational strategy, culture, leadership, executive coaching and specialises in managing complex change and development. He has worked with many leading companies throughout the world, co-designing and facilitating major change and organisational transformation projects and developing senior executives and board members. He has been a keynote speaker at a number of international conferences on the learning organisation, leadership and Executive Coaching and teaches and leads master-classes at a number of business schools. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Bath, and has also taught at a wide variety of universities both in the UK and South Africa.
Currently Peter is honorary president of the Association of Professional Executive Coaches and Supervisors and a member of the advisory Board of the University Of Bath School Of Management. He was voted runner up as the most influential person in Coaching in 2007.
Peter Hawkins has consulted to a number of leading commercial, financial and professional organisations including: 3i, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Barclays Capital, BBC, Ernst and Young, Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories, IBM, GSK, Canon and Capespan.
Leanne Lowish, Karyn Prentice and Monica Ross
Leanne Lowish, Karyn Prentice and Monica Ross are Assistant Directors at CSA and are senior trainers and tutors on CSA's diploma programmes. Leanne's specialism is in team and group coaching, relationship coaching and leadership development. Karyn designs and facilitates a range of leadership programmes and teaches a reflective practice masters level programme for Teeside University, Monica is an Executive Coach and Supervisor who supports Leaders and Internal coaches in organizations internationally. Her particular focus is on empowering leaders using energy awareness and embodied wisdom. Monica is a past Co-President of ICF Ireland Chapter.
Angela Dunbar
Angela Dunbar is an accredited coach, coach trainer and supervisor, in full time practice since 1994. A former council member with the Association for Coaching, Angela is passionate about developing coaches and was a 2010/11 Nominee for the AC Honorary Award for "Impact" within the coaching profession. Angela is an expert in the use of Clean Language and other Clean techniques, with hundreds of hours of practical experience. Angela's first book Essential Life Coaching Skills was published by Routledge in 2009. As a current psychology degree student, Angela combines solid understanding of theory with a practical approach for self-understanding and change.
Programme (click on the name to see the abstract of the presentation)
| START | |||
| 9.00am | Registration with refreshments | ||
| 9.30am | Welcome | ||
| 9.40am |
Keynote 1 - David Lane
How good are we at making decisions - some worrying features and benefits for coaching supervision from thinking and feeling our way to successful approaches? Part of what we do as coaching supervisors is help our clients understand the decisions they make in coaching. This involves both their decision process and our own. Yet how far in our training and practice do we turn to those disciplines such as decision sciences which have researched professional decision making to assist us in our task. In a number of related disciplines such as counselling and therapy this has been the subject to research. The findings are in someway not very reassuring. In turns out that professionals are not very accurate in making decisions. This has lead some to argue that an actuarial process rather than clinical judgement should form the basis of practice. In this keynote we will explore these issues and look at both individual and collective contexts for supervision and decision making where the parameters are known and unknown (or unknowable). Frameworks for developing successful approaches to decision making will also be explored. |
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| Conference Themes | Conceptual or Research-Based Presentations | Case Studies with Demonstrations | Demonstrations |
| 10.30am |
Michel Moral and
Florence Lamy Developing the professional identity of coaches along a collective supervision journey During a collective supervision, supervisees meet regularly and every time it is necessary to recreate the links between the participants. In France we call this process "inclusion" and it consists in using a tool like the photo-language or a set of symbolic cards to allow participants to reconnect with their emotions. What will be described and experimented during the presentation is how to set and organize these inclusions along the supervision journey so that the professional identity of the coaches is developed. |
Jackie Arnold and
Edna Murdoch Looking inside Coaching Supervision – exploring the relational field This presentation focuses on what goes on within the supervisor as we work and between the coach and coachee during sessions. We will show how to pay more attention to the subtle impact of relational presence. This focus supports the development of the role of the Internal Supervisor where cognitive, somatic and intuitive data can inform and guide interventions for both supervisor and coach. Through specifically designed exercises and dialogue, we will encourage new levels of awareness and insight; attendees will also be invited to evaluate approaches to the relational field and to link theory with practice. |
Alison Hodge
Creating a shift in the coach/client relationship through creative supervision Sometimes as supervisors we find ourselves working with a coach who appears to have become 'stuck' or 'blocked' or indeed, we ourselves feel stuck in how to work with them to help the coach to meet the aims of the coaching contract. In this demonstration, Alison will work with a volunteer from the audience to tap into their own creativity and explore a client relationship they would like to change, using picture cards/symbols. By tapping into their imagination, we may discover things in the client situation or in the coach’s own practice and process that may be helping or hindering their client to achieve the declared outcomes. The group will then reflect on the intervention, what emerged, and when and how it might be applied in coaching supervision. |
| 11.10am | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30am |
Tatiana Bachkirova
Working with self-deception of coaches in supervision The phenomenon of self-deception remains an incredible puzzle in spite of many theories and research published so far. Coaches are also not immune from self-deception. The level of personal predicaments and existential concerns involved in the cases of their coaching practice may contribute to their self-deception, which might in turn affect the quality of their work. The paper will describe the result of an exploratory study aimed at investigating factors contributing to the phenomenon of self-deception in coaches. A number of emerged themes and a model of self-deception in coaches will be presented with potential implications of these findings for coaching supervisors. |
Carol Whitaker and
Michelle Lucas Collaboration in practice: our developmental journey as co-facilitators of group supervision Carol and Michelle have been co–facilitating Supervision Groups in London and Oxford for the past 12 months. Using a case study approach they will share their developmental journey with you, "warts and all". Their unique approach models collaboration in the moment, with a strong emphasis on managing multiple perspectives and group dynamics. They will demonstrate that 1 + 1 equals more than the sum of the parts. They will conclude with feedback from their supervisees regarding the value they perceive of engaging with supervision in this way as well as sharing their personal lessons learned. |
Karyn Prentice
A Walk in the Park - coaching supervision outdoors As the landscape of coaching supervision grows and develops we need to stay fresh, perceive deeply, support the 'super-vision' of our supervisees. Saint Augustine is purported to have said: solvitur ambulando (it is solved by walking). Walking together creates a different space for reflection sending an invitation to our brain to notice in a different way as we tune into the here-and-now of nature in front of our face and under our feet as we walk. The workshop takes place outdoors. We have time to try out different activities that can stimulate the coaching supervision conversation. Handouts provided. |
| 12.15pm |
Kate Pinder
Potency and vulnerability Coaches and supervisors present themselves as not being the experts, even if they are sometimes thrust into that role, or find themselves taking it. One of the areas to explore is how much self-disclosure is helpful to the coachee/supervisee and how much it impedes their progress. What happens when the coach or supervisor shows their own vulnerability? How does this affect people's own view of their potency? References to TA, Gestalt, assertiveness and the seven-eyed model will shed light on this dichotomy. |
Marion Gillie and
Marjorie Shackleton Use of self / self disclosure in supervision: why, when and how We frequently supervise coaches who don't bring their own reactions, intuition or much of themselves into coaching sessions. Exploration of tricky or 'stuck' sessions reveals that 'use of self' might have been fruitful, but many have 'been taught' that coaching is solely about the other person and anything about them is irrelevant. Some see the rationale but have no idea how to do it in service of the client. We also work with coach supervisors who are unsure how to develop this capacity in their supervisees. In this session we will explore the why, when and how of 'use of self', and how, as supervisors, we can be a useful role model to our supervisees. |
John Whittington
A demonstration of the application of systemic constellation in coaching supervision A constellation creates a 'living map' made up of people (in a workshop setting) or objects (when working one to one) that illuminates dynamics and reveals fresh information. This short demonstration of the approach will provide an opportunity for everybody in the group to experience the methodology and get a sense of the benefits of this approach in one-to-one and group supervision. |
| 12.55pm | Lunch | ||
| 1.45pm |
Keynote 2 - Carol Kauffman
Using the PERFECT model to harness all we know in coaching supervision There are many aspects to supervision, one area of focus is building our own, and our supervisees awareness of diverse theoretical orientations and domains of knowledge that can inform coaching. We tend to have reflexive ways of looking at the world, but in the split second decisions we face as coaching, it can help to have a way to trigger the full breadth of what we know. PERFECT is a mnemonic device to assist us in this quest as we attempt to pull on the domains of: Physical, Environmental, Relational, Feelings, Effective Thinking, Continuity (of past, present and future) as well as Transcendence. |
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| 2.35pm |
Carole Field
Creating a unique Supervision model for internal coaching: where is the evidence? A unique supervision model needs to be created for internal coaches. They have unique insight to the organisation' issues and priorities, systemic issues and access to stakeholders. Their challenges include the potential for triangulation; confidentiality concerns; role confusion and possible credibility factors. All of these factors need to be accommodated in the development of internal coaching capability. This presentation will explore:
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Katherine Long
Internal Coach to Internal Supervisor – Exploring 'good enough' supervision in an organisational context This session presents experience of running a pilot open supervision programme aimed at supporting internal coaches to step up to the role for internal supervision. We will be sharing experiences and learning from the programme, and exploring some of the following questions as well as offering our own conclusions:
The session will include mini case studies from participating internal coaches regarding the impact of their development on the overall coaching offer within their organisations. |
Terrence E. Maltbia and
David Matthew Prior Action Learning Conversations - A Protocol for Group Coach Supervision (Overview and Demonstration) Action Learning Conversations (ALCs) is structured protocol grounded in the work of Reginald Revans (father of action learning) which can be applied as a learning activity and heuristic approach to coach development, including group supervision. This live demonstration of the technique will employ one of the presenters, David Matthew Prior, as the "Challenge Holder" who will bring a real and important problem or opportunity to an action learning group of peer coaches (3 other conference attendees). The peer coaches will be guided through a reflective learning and group supervision process by their Action Learning Coach, Terrence Maltbia. |
| 3.20pm | Refreshments | ||
| 3.40pm |
Peter Hawkins
Creating A Coaching Culture: The role of Supervision Organizations are investing large sums of money in employing external and internal coaching and are increasingly under pressure to show a demonstrable return on this investment. In this presentation based on my latest book "Creating a Coaching Culture" we will discuss well-researched and practical answers to the whole question of how you create a coaching culture. Some ideas for HR professionals, Coaching Managers and internal and external coaches are:
In this presentation I will present the seven step model of "Creating a Coaching Culture" and then focus on the role of supervision for external and internal coaches and for leaders and managers using coaching approaches. We will work live with organisational case issues from participants. |
Leanne Lowish,
Karyn Prentice and Monica Ross Deference and personal power in coaching supervision This demonstration aims to highlight some ways supervisors can support their supervisees in understanding "deference threshold" and to stay emotionally engaged and resourceful when it might arise for them. This phenomenon can be triggered for any professional regardless of their level of experience and awareness. By bringing it into consciousness we create the potential to manage it and to avoid derailing our professional effectiveness. |
Angela Dunbar
Using a Clean Approach for Supervision Clean Language was created by psychologist David Grove as way for clients to quickly access their own inner wisdom, as revealed through the metaphors and symbols they were naturally using in conversation. Now used extensively in coaching, the scope for using a Clean approach in supervision is vast as it encourages ongoing self-supervision. This experiential presentation offers a live supervision demonstration using Clean Language and other less-well known Clean techniques, to show how this approach can open up new possibilities and widen perspectives. All attendees will experience Clean Language combined with changing movement and space to bring about new insights. |
| 4.20pm | Panel Discussion | ||
| 4.50pm | Close | ||
