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.
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.
Thursday 20th November 2025 – Andra Morosi Supervision as “coming home”
Through emergent dialogue, resonance and exploration of cases as well as our experience, we propose a space of enquiry about the intimate dimensions of supervision, the sacred nature of the encounter with other and with ourselves.
· Is there a spiritual dimension?
· How does the transpersonal lens invite a soulful connection for a deep supervisory relationship?
· How do we use Nature to reconnect with our true nature?
Friday 21st November 2025 – Karen Pratt and Alex van Oostveen – An Emergent Dialogue on Values.
Join Karen Pratt and Alex van Oostveen in an unscripted and off-the-cuff emergent dialogue on values.
Karen and Alex approach the theme of values from different philosophies, and with a common passion for how they impact practitioners, clients, and others personally and professionally. They also share a passion for the psychological underpinnings that Transactional Analysis brings to their lives and work.
Join us for an experience of values in action.
4/5 December – David Clutterbuck – “Supervision can’t get any more complex …..can it?”
The 10 levels of coaching complexity….An increasing function of supervision is to support coaches in helping their clients recognise and manage the complexity of the systems that surround them. We can identify ten levels of coaching complexity, each requiring a successively greater awareness of and engagement with client systems. If coaches need to be at least one step ahead of clients in terms of systems awareness, do supervisors need to be at least one step ahead of coaches? David will explore how coaches can add increased value working with teams of teams and beyond, to coaching the meta-system; and invite you to consider how you might in turn need or want to adapt your supervision practice.
10th anniversary session – celebrating the first GSN sessions held on 25/26 February 2016
26/27 February 2026 – Robin Shohet – Supervision as Spiritual Practice
Without defining spiritual, most of us in this work know there is something more than just us as separate individuals. How might this affect our work?
Presenter biographies:
David Clutterbuck
Prof. David Clutterbuck is one of the original pioneers of coaching and mentoring and co-founder of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. EMCC Master Practitioner, author or co-author of 80 books, he holds visiting academic roles at several universities and has been recognised as a Coaching Legend by Thinkers 50 in 2024 amongst numerous other awards over the decades. David is practice lead for Coaching and Mentoring International Limited – a global network of researcher-trainer-consultants specialising in coaching and mentoring across 100+ countries.
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.
Robin Shohet
I have been supervising since 1976 and in my dotage have given myself permission to bring the spiritual into my work.
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.
Andra Morosi
Andra Morosi is a global leadership coach and accredited supervisor. Founder of International Milestones, Andra investigates nature-inspired practices and explores regenerative supervision. She is based in rural Normandy, France where she experiments with sustainable forms of living and working.
Karen Pratt
Karen Pratt is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the educational speciality, holds the ICF PCC coaching credential and a Supervision Diploma from Coaching Development. Her TA training groups attract a diversity of students from various countries including South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Romania, Bulgaria, UK, and France. She has a busy supervision practice working both with individuals and offering group supervision. Her experiences in contemplative nondual spirituality form the foundation of her way of being in her life and work.
Alex van Oostveen
Alex van Oostveen is certified by EMCC Global as coach/mentor supervisor (ESIA) and Accredited Coach (EIA) at Senior Practitioner level, and hold a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with ICF. Using a relational approach, and informed by psychological theories (transactional analysis, Gestalt), Alex works with leaders and executive coaches to problem-solve more effectively, in the spheres of systems, relationships, tasks, and self.
Previous sessions:
25/26 September 2025 – Patti Stevens – 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.
11/12 September 2025 – Tatiana Bachkirova ‘AI coaching’ delusion: What is our role as coaching supervisors?
Hosts: Brenda Routt on Thursday, and Rachael Skews on Friday
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.
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.
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 Moral) 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.
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.
