I offer coaching supervision to practitioners and coaches.
I have a particular interest in supporting those who are working to integrate different modalities within their practice and those who are new to coaching.
What is Supervision?
Supervision is a safe, non-judgemental, confidential space to explore whatever impacts on, or arises in, your practice and in your client relationships. It supports you whilst you support others.
It focuses on three areas: professional, developmental and personal, through the facilitation of three key mechanisms; feedback, support and challenge.
Supervision is primarily an enabling process which enhances the value of your work though further developing your awareness and skills.
The process illuminates what might otherwise stay hidden in your work, surpassing what individual self-reflection is able to affect.
We work together to establish trust and transparency to reflect on your experiences, challenges and processes and allow difficult issues and underlying emotions to be resolved.
What is Coaching Supervision?
A coaching-based approach to Supervision focuses on:
- a collaborative conversation using the 7-eyed model as a framework to ensure variety in focus;
- all aspects of your practice, not just presentation of case/clients;
- a non-hierarchical model of supervisor as facilitator not ‘expert’ assessing your work in your field;
- supports exploration rather than prescription;
- how who you are shows up in your work;
- the relationship between the personal and professional;
- what may be holding you back or where you are getting in your own way;
- supporting you to develop and clarify your own approach/style and beliefs within your field;
- adapts to the professional ethics, practices and framework of your field;
- an expansive approach to supervision.
Why have Supervision?
Supervision is not just for when you have difficulties or ‘client issues’:
- assurance you are developing you practice to your full potential;
- ensures you are working to the highest standards;
- affirmation that you are serving your clients to the best of your ability;
- reinforcement of your strengths and focus on areas you may want to develop;
- resolves the underlying and unattended;
- ensures you don’t get stuck with clients or in your approach;
- insight into the psychodynamics of relationships;
- different models, techniques and theories;
- wider awareness and greater insight into yourself and your actions;
- challenge, fresh perspective and creative input;
- greater revitalisation and confidence in your work.
I rarely end up talking about what I intended with Antonia…I end up talking about what’s important.
Antonia placed me at the centre of the Supervision process by remaining curious and intuitive about how I work and what questions I use to elicit creative thinking opportunity. Antonia understood well that I work with other clients, offering therapeutic counselling (of which supervision is additional and separate) yet showed an ability to steer me into remaining whole in the supervision process. This was absolutely brilliant and very liberating for me. Antonia correctly picked up on my short and inappropriate description of a client which provided me with an opportunity to further reflect on my unconscious message and transference that I may be giving to my client. This was indeed evidence of her ability to be challenging and supportive at the same time. For me I will continue to reflect upon seeing myself as one person rather than creating unnecessary boundaries within myself and clients.
Antonia’s coaching supervision was extremely helpful because it was deep, intuitive, and interactive. She opened up new horizons through her questions at the same time she was there to gently encourage and support. Antonia certainly brought a new perspective with the way I was dealing with my clients and refined my questioning technique.
Antonia was willing to patiently listen to what might sometimes have been a ridiculous or round the houses story or train of thought until she got the point or what was behind the emotion. She was very gentle in her your approach which enabled me to open up fully rather than skirt around the thought. Antonia’s very helpful observation and sense of what was my stuff and what was my client’s stuff helped me to further understand how I work and what to look out for.
I gained insight into some aspects of my work that were fuzzy before. It was most useful to be able to get that clarity and overall was the most beneficial part of the supervision for me. Antonia was able to help me tease out what I actually wanted to be presenting as a package to clients. From my confusion I got clarity and an epiphany as to what I actually offer. That was massive.
Antonia strikes a really great balance between being supportive and challenging. I found her style and tone really enabled me to think with new perspective. She has a strong presence and intuition which coupled with powerful and sometimes challenging questioning inspired me to think clearly about the direction I was taking. She also brings a practical focus in terms of thinking about how you can best work with your clients, develop your own style and consider who you are as a coach. I found the coaching supervision to be most useful in terms of providing me with a strong sense of clarity. It enabled me to question assumptions I was making about where I should direct my focus in terms of building my future business. It helped me to think clearly about the kind of coach I wanted to be and the client bases I could work with. Antonia’s strong intuition and powerful questioning style provided me with the opportunity to understand and plan my practice in a way that felt realistic, manageable and inspired.
I enjoyed and valued being challenged by Antonia. She was always respectful in the way she challenged me, and her approach was deeply insightful and helped me to grow and refine my skills as a coach. Antonia strongly encouraged self-reflection and this helped me to analyse how I was working with my clients and how I could improve. What was most helpful about supervision with Antonia was her focus on reviewing my approach and helping me to think exclusively about my clients and leaving my own ‘baggage’ at the door, i.e. when I took a specific line with a client, was this to help them arrive at their own conclusions, or was it influenced by my own experience. This helped me refine my questioning techniques, and in the case of one client in particular transformed our relationship.
Antonia provides me with the space to reflect on my practice with occasional nudges which always require me to think more deeply. She offers a good level of challenge in a fabulously supportive way and I leave each session with far greater insight into my own thinking and practice. Antonia spends time in understanding the context in which I work which enables me to work at a deeper level. I have learnt that I have sometimes been so busy trying to do the right thing as a coach that I can become quite driven and solution focused almost rushing some sessions. She has helped me remind myself that I am human and that being present with my clients and responding from that place is often the most valuable part of any session and leads to greater self-knowledge. I am gaining much in the realms of who I am and want to be as a coach.
For me, Antonia is about presence. She listens to details. She challenges details. She reflects them back. It feels like an extra brain is present to help understanding of what I’m putting out there. Antonia is not afraid to ask if there is doubt, lack of clarity or just blindness. Thank you for being there