CPD webinar schedule for 2025
Session times:
- Thursdays 7 pm UK time
- Fridays 8am UK time
Members can book on sessions by clicking the Zoom registration links available in the GSN event schedule sent regularly to members. So please join if you are eligible! You can also find presenter bios and details of some GSN working group sessions below.
24/25 July 2025 – What is the relevance of competency frameworks for our practice and society in 2025 – Damian Goldvarg (panel host) with Thomas Tkach (ICF), Michael Moral (EMCC).
Hosts: Brenda Routt on Thursday and Rachael Skews on Friday.
Learn from representatives of the ICF (Thomas Tkach) and the EMCC (Michel Morel) on how they position coaching supervision in their associations, the new ICF Competency Framework published last year and the revised EMCC framework published in 2025. After hearing more about these frameworks participants will discuss in small groups how close or far they are in relationship to their supervision practices and interact with the associations representatives to answer any questions.
7/8 August 2025 – Colin Wilson – Supervising on Systemic Issues in a Polarised World – Part 2
Hosts: Brenda Routt on Thursday and Jeanine Bailey on Friday
In April Colin introduced this topic. By popular demand, for people who attended then, and for new participants, this session looks further at helping supervisees with their clients’ de-polarisation issues, by challenging both poles and moving to humility, empathy and intellectual honesty. Examining assumptions and outcomes of both Critical and Liberal Social Justice approaches.
Preparation: Please consider Mode 7 of the 7-eyed model of Supervision and your own definitions of ‘systems’ and how they work.
Also consider where you derive your views on issues of economic policy and social affairs. This may include considerations of: Maximising the wellbeing of all, individual rights and choice, free markets, individual justice, social justice, Critical Theory and its critics, areas like climate, race, sex and gender etc.
11/12 September 2025 – Tatiana Bachkirova ‘AI coaching’ delusion: What is our role as coaching supervisors?
Hosts: Brenda Routt on Thursday, Friday tbc
The coaching world continues to be flooded with AI substitutions of humans under the pretence of ‘democratizing coaching’. The views of coaching supervisors are not heard about many problematic issues with this so-called AI ‘revolution’. Coaching supervisors have an important perspective on the integrity of coaching practice, and I hope that in this conversation we can find a way to influence the coaching world in this regard within and beyond supervisory rooms.
25/26 September 2025 – Patti Stevenson – Coaching Postures
A unique, holistic sense-making framework to assist practitioners in their supervision and development – The Coaching Signatures Profile®(CSP) 2nd Edition. An introduction to the eight different coaching postures that measure the emergent relational space between coach and coachee. How they can be explored within supervision.
Small panel who use the Coaching Signatures Profile® (GSN members) to have an interactive session with attendees around ‘some gentle inward gazing upon our inner landscape’ Building on the GSN session – Adult Developmental Based Approach to Coaching Supervision in early March 2025
23/24 October – David Lane – Ethics and culture a negotiated boundary
The session will ask participants to consider how they conceptualise ethical decisions and how this impacts different types of supervision practice. A number of frameworks for reflection on practice will be introduced that can be used to challenge and inform our approaches to supervision in different contexts.
Pre Work:
Reflect upon the influences that have led you to view your own ethical stance in your personal life. Once you have that statement reflect on the influences personal and professional that you incorporate into your supervision practice. Write this reflection down.
Presenter biographies:
Fiona Adamson
Fiona is an executive coach supervisor and has published articles and a book in this field. She has a background in university teaching and research in the social sciences. Her M.Litt ( a research degree by thesis), was a comparison of 2 workgroups in the public sector. She had coaching and psychotherapy practice, Gestalt and Transpersonal perspectives. She has qualified in Jungian Dreamwork and in a regular monthly dream group. Fiona does consultancy work in the public and private sectors and has supervised several different professional groups.
Tatiana Bachkirova
Tatiana is Professor of Coaching Psychology in the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK http://www.brookes.ac.uk/iccams/. As an academic her work involves supervising doctoral students, teaching coaching supervisors and academic writing. As a practitioner she supports coaches through individual and group supervision. In her over 70 research articles, book chapters and books and in her many speaking engagements she aims to explore the most challenging issues of coaching as a service to individuals, organisations and wider societies.
Anna Brown
Anna is an accredited master executive coach and supervisor who integrates nature into her practice, helping clients expand self-awareness, connect with purpose, and create lasting change. Her work spans executive coaching, coach supervision, action learning, and community building. A Tavistock Institute Certified Supervisor, Anna provides tailored supervision, incorporating nature and systems thinking to foster insight, clarity, and ethical reflection. As a coach, she supports leaders through key transitions. With a deep focus on self and system flourishing, she blends her own senior leadership experience and coach training with her Executive MBA and a BSc in Environmental Science.
Passionate about fostering communities for a thriving planet, Anna co-founded the Coaching In & With Nature Pod within the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA). She also serves as a Board Director for the Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision (APECS), holding the Supervision and Sustainability portfolios and representing APECS on the Joint Global Statement Group.
Anna Casas
Living and working in different cultures and countries has provided Anna with an open and international mentality that is a key ingredient of her way of being. Her curiosity about what is LIFE and who we are is the energy behind her continuous searching for understanding. Her learning from the Embodied Transformation course (Strozzi Institute) and MBSR are key ingredients of her way of living and working. Nowadays she accompanies owners of small size companies to develop their own leadership and enhance the culture of their teams. She lives in Spain, close to the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees.
Ursula Clidière
Ursula is an AC accredited Coach Supervisor and Executive/Leadership Development Coach, holding a doctoral degree in work psychology, with a later specialization in adult development. She trained under Dr. Otto Laske and Dr. Susanne Cook Greuter, and has a corporate background in the life science industry, leading global compliance and risk management functions. Her career has fostered her systems/meta systems thinking, leadership development, and the concept of the inner workplace within highly complex environments.
Hetty Einzig
Hetty brings experience from a career encompassing psychotherapy, writing and journalism, and launching and directing a successful non-profit organisation, The Parenting Forum – which helped shape national and local family policy. Her coaching and supervision is founded in the complementary models of psychoanalysis and transpersonal psychology. She holds an ecosystemic frame so her work is enriched with her background in languages, art history, literature, body work and strategic policy. Hetty is Director of Publications Strategy at the Association for Coaching and Executive Editor of Coaching Perspectives, the AC global magazine.
Hetty is a co-founder of Purpose Power Presence for women in Leadership, on the associate faculty of Henley Coaching School, the Irish Management Institute and the Eco-Leadership Institute’s Diploma in Leadership Coaching, and she leads her own highly acclaimed Transpersonal Leadership Coaching Programme (AC credentialed at Certificate level) .
Damian Goldvarg
Dr. Damian Goldvarg has thirty years of experience providing executive coaching, leadership training, and facilitation in over sixty countries. He facilitates certifications in Professional Coaching, Team Coaching, and Coaching Supervision in English and Spanish. He was the 2013-2014 International Coach Federation Global President and in received the 2019 EMCC Supervision Award.
Alex Haitoglou
Alex is the co-founder and CEO of Ovida, an AI platform designed to augment the human side of coaching and help coaches, clients, and leaders grow. Ovida achieves this by enhancing coaching and core communication skills, using AI-derived objective data, insights, and video reviews for self-reflection together with human mentoring by experts. Alex is a business leader, tech entrepreneur and passionate coaching practitioner. He studied Business Economics and German in the UK and Germany, worked for Procter & Gamble in multiple countries and ran their “Grow Coaching“ programme for 4 years. He founded Ovida together with his co-founder Bryan Watson.
Peter Hawkins
Professor Peter Hawkins is Chairman of Renewal Associates, Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Dean and founder of the Global Systemic Team Coaching Institute, Honorary President of the Academy of Executive Coaching and Senior Fellow and Advisor to the Singapore Government.
Peter is a leading consultant, coach, writer and researcher in organizational strategy, leadership, culture change, team and board development and coaching. He has worked with numerous leading organizations globally coaching executive teams and boards and facilitating major change and organizational transformation projects. He has coached over 100 boards and senior executive teams, enabling them to develop their purpose, vision, values, collective leadership and strategy for the future, in a wide range of international companies, government departments, UK health services organizations, the professional services sector and charities.
Peter is the pioneer of coaching supervision and creator of the Seven Eyed Model of Supervision. He teaches coaching supervision and systemic team coaching in over 100 countries. He has authored or co-authored 20 books, the latest being “Beauty in Leadership and Coaching: and its role in transforming human consciousness.” published by Routledge in December 2024.
Hellen Hettinga
An explorer at heart, Hellen is searching for some kind of ‘universal language’ to get to harmony and wholeness – with self, others and our natural environment. A Dutchwoman with decades of lived, corporate and coaching & supervision experience in Europe and Southeast Asia, she now lives in Paris region, France. Her attention is today on holding space for regeneration and integration. Across divides of cultures, borders, languages and relationships. Hellen integrates embodied practices throughout her work.ane
David Lane
David is a psychologist and coach who supervises both practice and research. A long standing interest in ethics and culture has led to exploration of what practice would look like if approached from different cultural perspectives.
Otto Laske
Dr Otto Laske is a multidisciplinary consultant, scholar, teacher, and coach/coach supervisor known for his innovative work in social science methodologies and the revival of dialectics, a complex-systems analysis form. He has published extensively on enhancing and measuring thought maturity and ‘vertical’ adult development, emphasizing their effects on organizational teamwork and productivity. Dr. Laske is the Founder and Director of the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) in Gloucester, MA, USA.
Brian Lowell French
Brian provides coaching, teaching, and speaking on topics of leadership, coaching, diversity-equity-inclusion, sustainability, mindfulness, well-being, and purpose-finding. He is the author of the book, Harmonic Leadership – Leading with Inclusive, Mindful Caring, which he provides as a free gift at harmonicleadership.net. Brian is a Certified Coach (CC) through the IAC-International Association of Coaching, where he also serves on the Board of Governors and leads the Sustainability Coaching Team. He is also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher and holds certifications on many leading psychometric-assessments and leadership-theories. A lifelong musician, Brian weaves music into his leadership, coaching, and mindfulness sessions to create meaningful connections.
Michel Moral
Michel supervises coaches (he holds an ESIA) and trains supervisors (ESQA school) for a couple of decades. He sometimes coaches and trains team coaches in several French Universities and around Europe. He is a member of the EMCC Council and a member of the EMCC Supervision Center for Excellence.
Michel holds a Master degree in Science, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has published ten books on management, coaching, team coaching, organisational coaching and supervision. He has been an international manager and executive in IBM.
Anjali Nair
Anjali is Past President – International Association of Coaching and an Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach, and Certified Corporate Director. As a member of the Governing Board of the IAC, she has served as the President (2022 – 2023). She has 24+ years of experience as an OD consultant, HRBP, and Leadership Coach across diverse industries. Her educational background includes an MBA, MLL & LW, and MSc.
Rachael Skews
Rachael is a chartered psychologist and behavioural scientist. Rachael’s research focuses on performance, wellbeing and behaviour change. Rachael is a thought leader on topics related to human performance, wellbeing and behavioural science. She has a background in organisational psychology, psychological research, health technology, and philosophy. She is an internationally recognised subject matter expert in Acceptance and Commitment Coaching and Contextual Behavioural Science in the workplace. She provides coaching, training, supervision, and behavioural science consultancy through her consultancy practice Cognus Consulting Ltd. She has extensive experience consulting with clients across the private, public, and charity sectors.
Rachael is a Director of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP). She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a full member of the BPS Divisions of Occupational Psychology and Coaching Psychology.
Patti Stevens
Patti founded Coaching Supervision Consultancy Limited in 2004 to meet the Professional Supervision requirements of practitioners working within Coaching, Leadership, Consultancy and People Development contexts.
Also founded the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS)
Rita Symons
Rita is a Master Practitioner coach and supervisor, who spent much of her career in the NHS, starting in public health and ending as a Chief Officer. In addition to her coaching and supervision practice, she works systemically on several national programmes, as well as bespoke development focussed on leadership and inclusion. She is particularly interested in women’s leadership, inclusion and belonging and psychological safety. She is the author of a book on Othering: ‘Stepping Out of Otherness’ published earlier this year. She leads the Global EMCC group on Climate Action and Sustainability.
Thomas Tkach
Thomas is the Assistant Director of Academic Research at the International Coaching Federation. Thomas has worked for ICF since 2015 in various roles on the research team and the Credentials and Standards team. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship from the University of Toledo, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Ohio State University, and a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Kansas State University. He received his coach training in 2014 from Leadership that Works: Coaching for Transformation and earned his ACC credential in 2016.
Christine Thornton
Christine is an organisational consultant and supervisor, helping business leaders and coaches think through complex systemic and relationship dynamics. Author of the bestselling Group and Team Coaching (Routledge 2010, 2016, 2025) and of The art and science of working together (Routledge 2019), Christine’s career encompasses senior leadership, 30 years’ consulting and writing, and recognition of lifetime contributions to the coaching profession. www.thorntonconsulting.org
Eve Turner
Eve is a coach and supervisor globally and author and co-author of several books, chapters, and articles including “Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice,” “Systemic Coaching, “The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook,” and “The Heart of Coaching Supervision.” She is a past chair of APECS, and volunteers extensively including co-founding the CCA – the Climate Coaching Alliance – founding the GSN in late 2015, and for the EMCC and AC. She has won 9 awards for her coaching, supervision, research and writing from various bodies including the EMCC, AC, BPS SGCP and Coaching at Work. In her former “lives” she was a musician, and a senior leader in the BBC running a division with 250 staff, mainly journalists, and a multi-million pound budget.
Colin Wilson
Colin is twice a Commonwealth Silver medallist in sport; coached England teams, and in the workplace he became a Senior National Manager and a National Head of Coaching. He has been coaching and facilitating at senior level in corporates (8x FTSE100/Fortune 500), SMEs and non-profits for over 20 years, qualifying as a Supervisor of Executive Coaches and Consultants in 2013 – trained by CSTD and Bath Consultancy Group (Hawkins, Shohet, Ryde, Smith, Schwenk et al). Colin’s technical background is in Economics and Statistics which enables him to bring an analytical and critical thinking ability to his work on human and social systems. He is old enough to have been behind the Iron Curtain three times and has seen first-hand the terrible results of Marxism in practice.
Previous sessions:
12/13 June 2025 – Supervision in Teams and Groups: Introducing the distinctive features of working with groups and teams online– Christine Thornton.
Hosts: Thursday Brenda Routt, Friday Veronica Wantenaar
In this webinar, Christine will present her new chapter on virtual working and the research on which it was based, followed by conversations and shared questions and answers on most effective practice.
A number of topics may be discussed depending on interest including:
Introduction: the stimulus and the research, Restating the obvious, Our role, Experience and use of the embodied self, ‘The gaze’ and eye contact, Putting it into words, The Chat, Engagement, Boundaries and working from home , Initial contracting about technology, Contracting the online group setting, Design and managing pace, Hybrid working, Blended working, Some notes on room arrangement and technology in blended working.
1/2 May, 2025 – The Seven Eyed Model of Supervision – 40 years on – Professor Peter Hawkins.
In this webinar, Professor Peter Hawkins will delve into the 40-year evolution of the Seven-Eyed Model, first introduced as a paper in 1985. He will trace its journey from its initial purpose, through its collaborative development with Robin Shohet in 1989, and its adaptation for the coaching world in the 1990s, culminating in its publication with Nick Smith in a 2006 book.
Peter will also discuss the model’s more recent systemic advancements and highlight findings from recent research. Together, we’ll explore as a group how the model can continue to evolve over the next 40 years.
24/25 April, 2025 – How is our profession evolving in light of the climate crisis? – Rita Symons, Anjali Nair, Brian Lowell French, Hetty Einzig, Anna Brown, Rachael Skews and Eve Turner. (On behalf of the GSN working group “Supervision and Our Responsible Horizons”)
The GSN is one of 13 signatories to the joint statement on climate change originally written in 2020; others include the ICF, EMCC, COMENSA, IAC, APECS and AC. This statement is being updated and the name of the group (currently Joint Global Statement Group) changing. Hear more about GSN’s involvement and about the updated statement and debate our role as supervisors.
10/11 April, 2025 – Supervising on Systemic Issues in a Polarised World: Examining assumptions and outcomes – Colin Wilson.
Coaches now often advertise they offer ‘systemic’ coaching, but what does this actually mean? What does Supervising this mean in practice? – and in a polarised world of different opinions? Team and Individual coaches are often trained that systems are complex and emergent. Where do they over-simplify, and where do they fail to spot effective simplicity, where Supervisors could help? In this session, participants consider the assumptions of their supervisees and their own implicit assumptions about systems, and the likely resulting impacts and risks of their approach, using the social justice arena as an example.
6/7 March 2025 – Using an Adult Developmental Based Approach in Coach Supervision – Ursula Clidière, Otto Laske, Fiona Adamson.
Each session aims to provide a holistic view of adult developmental principles with the invitation to integrate these into supervision practice and ongoing coach development. Attendees will gain a basic understanding of adult development and its distinction from adult learning. We will briefly introduce Otto Laske’s Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF) as a developmental map, which meaningfully integrates social-emotional, cognitive development, and spiritual strands and how they are modulated by, or impact in turn, psychological contour (behavior). We will look at one concrete application (Three Houses) and demonstrate how a coaching/supervision ‘model’ can be looked at from the angle of developmental potential recognizing that the developmental strands are inseparable, while they can be distinguished individually. If we have time, we can also explore where dialectical thinking comes in.
6/7 February 2025 – The Ethics of Care: Maturity and interdependence in the Coaching Profession – Hetty Einzig. Hosts Thursday Eve Turner, Friday Veronica Wantenaar
The coaching profession is growing up – forced to mature perhaps by the need for reflective, brave and accountable spaces in a turbulent world in deep trouble and for practices that can engage with the complex challenges and levels of distress our clients bring us (i). Coaching is moving on, and must move on (as David Drake also urges), from its attachment to entry-level competency-based practices through mastery to embrace maturity (ii). I contend that the Ethics of Care, a concept formulated by psychologist Carol Gilligan and developed by Virginia Held and others, offers a robust and generous framework for the mature practice of coaching and coaching supervision for our times and beyond (i). Emphasising interdependence, context, and competency founded in respect and sensitivity to the needs others, the Ethics of Care is not counterpoint to the Ethics of Justice but alongside and interdependent with fairness and equality. It proposes an ethics founded in the reality that we have all been cared for, that our lives and well being depend on caring and receiving care, and that an attitude of care towards others and our environment can profoundly shift our mindset and behaviours – as coaches, supervisors and human beings.
9/10 January 2025 – What are we reluctant to let go of as supervisors? – Professor Tatiana Bachkirova.
What are we reluctant to let go of as supervisors? The first response might be “Why is there any need to let go of anything, anyway? If things are not going badly, why not just carry on as usual and enjoy our practice?” However, there is more to supervision than just our three main functions and problem-solving. It is foremost a way for both supervisors and coaches to see more in our practice, including ourselves. But we carry many filters as observers, and these stay firmly embedded because we do not want to relinquish our self-importance, knowledge, status, comfort, convictions, etc. So, this conversation comes with a health-warning…
12/13 December 2024 – How We Learn: The Power of Predictive Processing – Henry Campion
Predictive processing is a powerful new way of understanding how we learn. The idea is that we have an internal ‘generative model’ of the world which continuously (and mostly outside our awareness) predicts what will happen next, and the best action to take. Having taken the action, if the outcome is not as predicted – we’re surprised by what actually happens – we learn from this ‘prediction error’ by updating the generative model. This presentation will explore how an understanding of predictive processing can enhance our supervision practice.
5/6 December 2024 – Planning your own CPD with Doug Montgomery
This topic uses Doug’s recent personal experiences of a different style of Continuous Professional and Personal Development. This CPPD has been undertaken as part of a group of coaches and supervisors looking beyond the standard CPD offerings. The group adopted the name: Learning on the Edge (LOTE) and has involved us organising a series of 12 events (from horse whispering to Drag artistry) over the past couple of years. At different times these events have taken each of us to the edges of our comfort and at times into discomfort. However, supported by the group we have found our own learning and learned from each other’s experiences.
Doug will use this session to briefly share LOTE and then invite discussion and reflection on what is the purpose of CPPD for supervisors? What makes it CPPD? And, how do we integrate it into our supervision practice? Some of the group may attend and may offer their personal experiences and support Doug in the discussion.
14/15 November – Loyalties at work: how the loyalty towards your family of origin influences professional choices and interaction patterns – Thea Bombeek
Your family of origin is your first context. This is where you get a blueprint of the important life themes. In this webinar you will discover how underlying processes and patterns of loyalty towards your family of origin manifest in your life. Increased awareness helps you to make conscious choices when dealing with professional challenges in a more constructive way. Living more in alignment with your essence, and at the same time staying loyal to your family, will create inner peace. Furthermore the insights you gain from this webinar will help you to address these themes with your clients.
10/11 October 2024 – Will AI make Supervisors redundant? – David Clutterbuck and Lise Lewis
This session will include an overview of current and near future developments in AI within coaching, a brief demonstration, and a lot of opportunity for dialogue. Our aim is to help you keep ahead of technological change!
19/20 September 2024 – Team coaching Supervision – Ivan Beaumont
- A practitioner’s perspective on what team coaches are bringing to supervision.
- A look at the component architecture that delivers effective team performance and underpins team coaching models and frameworks.
- The team coaching capability gap and how do we (Supervisors) help close it?
11/12 July 2024 – How We Learn: The Power of Predictive Processing – Henry Campion
Predictive processing is a new way of understanding how we learn. The idea is that we have an internal ‘generative model’ of the world which continuously (and mostly outside our awareness) predicts what will happen next, and the best action to take. Having taken the action, if the outcome is not as predicted – we’re surprised by what actually happens – we learn from this ‘prediction error’ by updating the generative model. This presentation explores how an understanding of predictive processing can enhance our supervision practice.
5/6 September – How far is your responsible Horizon? Let’s explore together the art of “Catedral Thinking” – Hellen Hettinga and Anna Casas
This is part of Kitchen Conversations 2024, a space of creativity, sharing, connection, being in relationship, intimacy, wisdom. We co-create a brave space to gather and to sense, reflect and dialogue together.v. These are casual conversations on topics that matter to us and are related to how we humans relate to each other, to the earth and to ourselves. Each invitation is framed around an inquiry or a topic . This session is about the relationship we have with the time horizon and the decisions we take individually and collectively in relation to it.
This Kitchen Conversations edition is inspired by the quote:
“When we build, let us think that we build forever.
Let it not be for the present delight,
not for present use alone;
Let it be such a work as our descendants will thank us for”
from John Ruskin and from the book “The Good Ancestor”, How to think long term in a short-term world, written by Roman Krznaric.
20/21 June 2024 – 2 different sessions: Thursday Show and Tell with Jeremy Lewis and Thea Bombeek; and Friday How Liberatory Coaching Principles Can Add Value to Coaching Supervision with DeBorah (Sunni) Smith
1) Jeremy’s two research papers (published in 2023 and forthcoming in 2024) have conceptualised a framework that sets out how coaching supervisors might intentionally choose their interventions to meet their supervisees’ needs. Jeremy will present this framework and invite attendees to reflect on its potential uses in their own practice.
2) Thea: The dual process model of grief (Stroebe and Schut) is a holistic approach for coping with grief and loss. It moves away from previous grief models and theories, acknowledging individual experiences as different and unique. In this Show and Tell presentation, you will learn what the dual process model of grief is, how it works and how it can support you when accompanying bereaved clients.
(June 21st) How Liberatory Coaching Principles Can Add Value to Coaching Supervision with DeBorah (Sunni) Smith
The session explores how the Coaching for Transformation’s (CFT) approach to liberatory coaching decolonization can enrich the coaching supervision experience. Interactive small group sessions introduce and expand on a case study that reflects a “lived experience” and coaching methodology for healing, justice, and liberation.
2/3 May 2024 – Stepping out of Otherness and Supervision – Rita Symons
In this session, Rita will share some of the social psychology and themes from interviewing women of colour, and their experience of being ‘other’ (from her book “Stepping Out of Otherness” due out in 2024). We will consider how this might impact for coaches and what then we might need to consider as supervisors.
11/12 April 2024 – Communities of Practice: Ecosystems Supervision Groups – Hetty Einzig
We have been convening ecosystems supervision groups since 2020 – in person and online. We focus in depth on the individual and in breadth on the systems and networks in which our supervisees and their clients are located. Our approach encourages an integration of our identities as people, practitioners and citizens.
The recent United Nations Human Development report talks of a ‘new Uncertainty Complex’ where in addition to ‘normal everyday worry’ three particular areas of concern overlap: the accelerated rise of AI and other new technologies; our rising anxieties about the climate crisis and environmental collapse; the catastrophic geo-political polarisations, not just in the Middle East and Ukraine, but within our own fracturing institutions and societies.
We work within these circumstances, they form our wider ecosystem, and the concerns they raise are shared by us and our clients alike. The accumulation of ‘outsize’ and complex problems can engender a sense of impotence, anxiety and confusion that can transfer onto our individual concerns.
Our ecosystems supervision groups reflect on the impact of these developments on ourselves, our clients and our work. They answer the need for a space to explore our thoughts and feelings in the context of the many cultural and natural ecosystems of which we are part – home, family, workplaces, communities, nation and world. The group enables us all to also challenge our conscious and unconscious norms, assumptions and behaviours.
7/8 March 2024 – Creativity in Supervision PoYee Dorrian and Jane Cox
These sessions are deliberately different and, staying true to the essence of creativity, the two facilitators will each take their own creative approaches to inspire creativity. The sessions are designed to be exploratory and experiential, offering the participants an opportunity to play, activate, and integrate their inherent creativity into their supervisory practice. By adapting an inside-out approach in the sessions, participants will engage in various activities that encourage self-discovery and self-expression.
22/23 February 2024 – What every supervisor needs to know about working with neurodivergent clients in the workplace – Dr Francoise Orlov and Professor David Clutterbuck
Neurodiversity covers a wide range of divergent forms of thinking and being. A major advancement in the past decade had been the increasing recognition that neurodivergence is a difference, not a disability. Supervisors need to be well-informed and skilled in two ways that are relevant to this emerging understanding. One is how neurotypical coaches can best work with neurodivergent clients and how those clients interact with the systems around them. The other is how neurodivergent coaches can make effective use of the difference of perspective that they bring to their practice. Dr Francoise Orlov and Professor David Clutterbuck are engaging with neurodivergent coaches and supervisors internationally to help them articulate the special talents and benefits that their neurological difference gives them. They will share some of the themes emerging from these interactions and invite you to reflect upon the adjustments you might wish to make in your own perceptions and practice. If you are yourself neurodivergent – for example, on the autistic spectrum, ADHD or HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), or if you work with neurodivergent clients – please come prepared to share some of your story.
1/2 February 2024 – The future role of Supervision in transforming Coaching and Human Consciousness –Professor Peter Hawkins.
At the route of all of the great global challenges of our time is inability of current human consciousness to respond to the world we have created. Coaching consultancy and supervision all have a key role in the maturation of human consciousness at the individual team, organisational and partnership levels. Peter will introduce some of the key approaches from his new book ‘Beauty in Leadership and Coaching and the Transformation of Human Consciousness’.
Members will:
- Discover how supervision can spend more time at the “learning edge” when neither party, or past knowledge is helpful but it is clear that new thinking, being and doing is required
- Gain ways of supervising through collaborative, poetic inquiry and a dialogue of the heart
- Gain ways of moving from left brain neocortex exportation to embodied and participatory inquiry.
