Building The Internal Supervisor

Overview

This workshop will consider CSA’s Full Spectrum Model of Supervision, Living Presence, and will include a practice/case study focus on the full range of data that the Internal Supervisor collects. The workshop will end with a supervision demo/process and how a coaching supervisor utilises their Internal Supervisor for the coach’s benefit.

Detail

The term ‘Internal Supervisor’ was coined by Patrick Casement to describe perspectives and insights that are available to practitioners as they work with clients. In essence, these practitioners will be tuned to the entire range of their body/mind information during coaching; they can then respond to what they ‘pick up’ internally. Paying attention to the Internal Supervisor provides important data, which in turn informs interventions.

The Internal Supervisor offers:

• Cognitive information
• Intuitive information
• Somatic information

This range of information about the coaching situation becomes available to the coach’s analytical/processing mind, which in turn decides interventions and strategies.  Coaches can then choose interventions that are genuinely laser-like and perfectly timed. With a well-developed Internal Supervisor, comes a major increase in Coaching Presence and powerful, impactful coaching.

This workshop will consider:

1. CSA’s Full Spectrum Model of Supervision, which pays particular attention to the development of the Internal Supervisor.
2. Living Presence: practical strategies, in pairs, for attaining and sustaining coaching presence – a pre-condition for accessing the wisdom of the Internal Supervisor.
3. How to generate and use the cognitive, intuitive and somatic information provided by the Internal Supervisor – practice, case study focus and discussion.

Supervision demo which we will process by focusing on the supervisor’s use of the internal Supervisor – and on the group’s Internal Supervisor experience.

Date: 25/11/2011 – 10-5.30pm.
Venue: Brighton (TBA)
Cost: £170
Facilitators: Edna Murdoch and Miriam Orriss – Directors of CSA