Routledge The Heart of Coaching Supervision: Working with Reflection and Self-Care (Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge)

The Heart of Coaching Supervision takes us on a journey that starts with understanding who we are, and why we do what we do the way we do it, so that we can help those we work with understand themselves and their practice. The journey includes our background and personal and professional influences and considers the need for self-resourcing to resource others. It examines our being alongside our doing, to ensure that we can provide the best possible service to all those we work with. The book’s highly experienced contributors provide a unique perspective on supervision’s benefits. The chapters cover themes that support self-discovery and resourcing including the three Ps of supervision and coaching, diversity and inclusion, resourcing, working with intense emotions and the self as instrument. Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment© is explored in a supervision context alongside creative forms of reflective and expressive writing and resourcing through a peer supervision chain. The Heart of Coaching Supervision also includes ten engaging, international case studies, considering the role of supervision in depth. A key contribution to the field, the book is essential reading for all coaches and mentors, coaching supervisors and psychologists, managers in a coaching role and anyone in a helping profession or leadership position wanting to better understand the wide benefits of supervision. Review "The Heart of Coaching Supervision: Working with Reflection and Self-Care is an invaluable contribution to supervision text that does what the title says and encourages us to take notice of and listen to our inner resources in service of others. This text is indispensable for supervision practice because of its ‘completeness’ about 'self'. Each chapter brings you a different perspective on supervision illustrating the author’s philosophy and approach to practice. Case studies reveal the extraordinary power of reflection for both the supervisor and the supervisee and the achievements of this combined wisdom. What you’ll experience through the eyes of the authors, who willingly share their own vulnerabilities, is validation of us as human beings. We’re inspired to accept who and what we are with compassion that urges us to offer that same compassion to others; knowing we share a common humanity. The eclectic contributions of authors exemplifying the kaleidoscope of humanity engages us with alternative and complementary approaches to supervision. You’ll read about topics you’ve possibly never experienced, or struggled to manage, or simply another perspective on a familiar theme. Case studies visit working with refugees to everyday corporate scenarios that draw on emotions; sometimes the stories will make you laugh and maybe sometimes you’ll cry. Ultimately, you’ll learn from the practices of professional supervisors about the human condition unfolding and how the power of supervision ripples beyond the immediate conversation to benefit society as a whole." – Dr Lise Lewis, EMCC International Special Ambassador Promoting Supervision Worldwide "The Heart of Coaching Supervision is an outstanding contribution to the literature. The editors have drawn together leading names in the field including Tatiana Bachkirova, Peter Hawkins and Linda Aspey to provide a kaleidoscope of chapters which will help those interested in understanding supervision practice to deepen their knowledge and enhance their practice through new insights and techniques which are at the forefront of thinking within coaching supervision." - Professor Jonathan Passmore, University of Evora, Portugal, and Henley Business School, UK "In our pursuit of coaching excellence and mastery, to enhance the fulfilment, growth and performance of others and in business, we are constantly learning the ‘pillars’ of what truly makes a difference for a professional coach, to be at their best…Like an athlete, one of these is the need for reflective practice, and for a c