Testimonials

I have a place to go to voice concerns or frustrations when I'm struggling with a client…

...it allows me to review my approach and deal with poor habits early in their development

The CSA programme truly models the supervision approach. Huge learning with considerable personal responsibility for getting what you need to be the best you can be in your work.

Supervision allows me to be the professional I want to be.

Apart from all that I am learning, the great thing about this is that I can get support and insight as things crop up.

…and Group Supervision allows me to learn much from the experience of others.

Every coach should have something like this…they never touched this stuff in the training

Working with you has transformed my coaching

Working on the telephone allows me sense of quietness and presence; I can make meaning from other people’s experiences. It’s a lovely space.

I have known my supervisor for several years and she feels like an old friend, and yet I have never met her.

If I use the telephone for my supervision, I can choose the best supervisor for me – not just the one who lives locally.

I am confident in their extensive knowledge of Coaching Supervision, and their creative, informed approach to this.

I receive the professional care and support I hope I offer my clients – it allows me to be a better coach, it allows me to be heard so that I can hear my clients.

CSA is a leader in the field of Coaching Supervision.

I just wanted to say thank you for the supervision programme. As an executive coach I have discussed a number of challenges with you, and found your feedback, insight and support has proved invaluable.

I emerge from every session having had new insights and new perspectives, feeling more resourceful, having had profound learning.

A big help – talking with you really helped shift my coaching.

I used to think it was enough to speak with one of my coach buddies if I needed to debrief from a coaching session. Having now worked with CSA in formal coaching supervision, I have seen that that was really only a quick fix.

It allows me to be the professional I want to be.

I emerge from every session having had new insights and new perspectives, feeling more resourceful, having had profound learning.

Sharing the challenges that arise from a coaching session created a huge amount of opportunity. This is not to just repair or grow the client relationship, but more importantly for the future of that or any other relationship – it grows the coach.

The CSA team bring huge experience and dedication to all their enterprises and I have personally benefited from their work.

Supervision allows me to recognise and detach from my own personal emotional responses to some of my client issues.

Why do I feel supervision helps me? For a number of reasons:
(1) Quality control – ensuring I stay on track, manage the relationship effectively and support the client appropriately.
(2) Further my development – offering alternative frameworks, techniques and strategies to assist me.
(3) It helps me to recognise my 'blind spots' – ensuring I understand the client and the dynamics of the relationship.
(4) Safety – supervision is essential and invaluable in keeping me and the client safe in our working relationship.

Why work with a supervisor? I believe that my clients feel that its an additional resource to be called upon, and acknowledgement that I’m human, same as client. An acknowledgement that I may not have all the answers, and there's someone else that can be called upon.

My supervisor has an understanding of the coaching issues – and their wider implications – which has depth and real substance.

I have been able to take away practical approaches to use with my clients and have also developed my own coaching style and level of awareness. Thank you for your sponsorship and challenge.

I'm energised and nourished by experiencing supervision which is both constructive and supportive, and both affirming and stretching – and, critically, which has real soul. Thank you!

Specific focused attention through coaching supervision is not only one of the strongest coach development supports I know of, I think it's also a mandatory part of a dedicated, professional coach's portfolio

Who you are is how you coach

I had a particularly sensitive situation with a client and Edna was excellent at helping me towards understanding and managing the outcome. With her background in psychotherapy and supervising therapists, managers and coaches, she has the right set of skills to do this.

The Coaching Supervision Academy has played an invaluable role in helping us to continue to develop and refresh the skills, approaches and confidence of our coaches, so that they in turn provide inspirational, effective, leading edge coaching to help our clients fulfil their true potential.

Edna is the doyenne of supervision. She has created and developed a way of working that is ideal for bringing out learning and understanding. I use one or another of her tips or models almost daily in my own work, and I couldn’t recommend her more highly.

The rigorous nature of all the course elements was a strong point for me –the assessments, practice in trios, number of supervisees and the written work. Staying with one group of brilliant coaches is also a wonderful experience.

Excellent training, highly recommended, fully transformative. Brilliant trainers. Thank you.

As well as developing my ability to work well as a coach supervisor, I have developed personally at a depth I was not expecting. Thank you for this great opportunity.

CSA supervision course bought together all my prior learning and experience resulting in a deepening in all areas of my work. It is a holistic course encompassing many of the great psychological teachings with contemporary coaching techniques and thinking.

It was a place to add the repertoire of current thinking and refresh my bank of learning. CSA, more than most, not only helped me do this but recognised and validated a much more holistic, psychologically sound approach than any other course I have explored before choosing it.

The CSA course developed me not only as a supervisor, but also as a coach. Developing in particular my creative and intuitive skills.

I felt stretched and highly supported.

It was rigorous, academic, theoretical, awareness raising and self-reflective.

A superb course which is structured to really embed the skills to become a supervisor.

A really rich and rewarding 9 months. Many thanks to all.

The CSA Diploma in supervision is a journey like no other I have encountered – life changing.

Not only do I feel competent and ready to venture in to the world as a supervisor, but as a human being I feel stronger, clearer and grounded.

I have been concerned about the quality of coaching for sometime; CSA develops supervisory skills and orientation to the humanity of coaches and clients – a gift to the field and each future supervisee.

I found this programme of inestimable value...

Compassionate, rigorous, and skilled tutors.

I am different now in all my professional work, not just in coaching and supervision, as a result of this course.

I have been concerned about the quality of coaching for sometime; CSA develops supervisory skills and orientation to the humanity of coaches and clients – a gift to the field and each future supervisee.

It's a wonderful, resource-rich, and well-supported learning environment to build upon and grow your understanding, insight and skills in supervising others

The wealth of knowledge, wisdom and experience of the tutors gave the course solidity, credibility and diversity. They were very inspiring, supportive and inclusive. It put supervision in a context as an essential tool for coaching and clearly demonstrated the qualitative value to a coach’s practice.

This is a magical, inspiring and profound journey. To describe it as a course in Coaching Supervision would be to grossly understate it. Never have I experienced a course as being so rich and playful. Thank you!

This is a wonderful course – it is no exaggeration to say that it has changed me professionally and personally at a deep level.

This programme truly models the supervision approach. Huge learning with considerable personal responsibility for getting what you need to be the best you can be in your work.