History

Pre-1999

Edna Murdoch and Miriam Orriss began their working careers in Education, Senior Management, Clinical and Managerial Supervision, Business Development and Psychotherapy – contexts which required supervision as part of professional practice.

1999

On becoming coaches in 1999, they discovered that if there were coach supervisors around, they couldn’t find them. This led Edna Murdoch to begin to develop supervision for coaches, and she established the successful Supervision-on-Call, offering individual and group coaching to coaches at all levels. Supervision- on- Call was the forerunner of the Coaching Supervision Academy.

2001

Edna formally established the Coaching Supervision Academy, inviting experienced supervisors Fiona Adamson and Miriam Orriss to join her in pioneering supervision for coaches in the UK and Europe. And so CSA was born…

2002

We delivered presentations on Coaching Supervision to coaching groups and to organisations keen to learn more about the emerging form of coaching CPD that was to become known as ‘supervision’.

2002-2004

CSA grew and blossomed, running many supervision groups. We began working with executive coaches inside organisations, and ran the first Supervision Skills Course for Internal Coaches who wished to peer-supervise – this pioneering early development was to become one of our signature offerings.

2006

Following the success of CSA’s supervision groups – and the great response to the Supervision Skills courses for coaches – we decided to offer full supervision training for executive coaches, and the first diploma course was launched in 2006.

2009

Our Diploma course developed, becoming a highly regarded in the coaching community. And in 2009 we were delighted when the course obtained ICF-approved provider status… it’s just one of only a handful in the UK! We also became a limited company.
Meanwhile, a sister course was set up in Sweden by two CSA Graduates – this programme is also ICF approved. The first cohort in Sweden completed their course in 2010.

2010

Following a great year in 2009, CSA is looking to the future.
We are continuing our expansion, presenting at to conferences,and offering new courses, including long and short coaching supervision courses, Adv CPD courses for coaches and the Diploma in Supervision planned for France, USA, Ireland, and Singapore.
Currently (2010) the fourth cohort of the Diploma Programme has just successfully completed their course and the CSA Community of accredited coach supervisors, now numbers in excess of 60.

As our work in Coaching Supervision has grown, we have experts from the fields of Gestalt, Time to Think, NLP, TA, Systems theory, Transpersonal Perspectives, Field Theory and Quantum Physics, making contributions to our courses and marrying contemporary insights with classic supervision theory and practice. Our supervision models and our understanding of supervision practice grow as the field of coaching is growing. Currently, there are 15 Coach Supervisors on the CSA training team – meet them here.

Tomorrow?

When we look to the future, we’re excited. Technology allows new freedoms and possibilities that just five years ago would have seemed impossible. From virtual supervision to face to face supervision, we’re looking forward to finding new was to help coaches in Britain and beyond become all they can be.