The Temptation to Advise
March 31, 2019
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This programme is suitable for professional coaches and mentors who are accredited at Senior Practitioner or Master Practitioner level with EMCC, or who have an equivalent level of experience and/or accreditation with another professional body.
Successful completion of the Diploma in Coaching Supervision will include meeting all the requirements for individual accreditation with EMCC. If all criteria are met, this will lead to the attainment of the EMCC’s ESIA supervision accreditation.
We apply an experiential learning approach combining taught input, reflection and dialogue, practice in a safe environment, detailed feedback, and experimentation with live clients.
We have designed this programme to align well with the life of a busy professional. Training modules are short and well-spaced over 12 months. Sessions are closer together in the first half of the programme, with more emphasis on self-directed learning in the second. All modules are delivered virtually.
The programme is focused around 20 live, virtual training modules. In addition to their ongoing practice, participants will maintain a learning journal, attend 6 guided-learning group sessions, submit and receive feedback on a recorded session, write a 2000-word essay, carry out a self-assessment towards the end of the programme, and interact regularly with other members of the cohort.
Supervision is safe space for reflective dialogue with a practicing supervisor, supporting the supervisee’s practice, development, and well-being.
During these two months, learners will discover the basics of supervision. Learning groups will be established and will meet for the first time. Learners will also pair up with each other to form practice supervision pairs and will start supervising each other in their own time. Learners will be asked to maintain a reflective journal and to contribute to the online community discussion forum.
This period contains six modules, and a recorded supervision exercise. In this regard, it is the most intensive phase of the programme. The intention is to establish and embed all the essential supervision skills at a relatively early stage in the course, so that learners are set up for success.
During this period, learners start working with practice clients from outside the programme. Learners also continue working with internal supervision buddy and continue meeting as learning groups.
Between Feb and Mar, learners will record one of their supervision sessions and this will be used to gather feedback. Feedback will be provided by a member of faculty. Participants will also provide feedback to each other on this.
Learners will spend the first three months of the year consolidating their experience, reflecting on their journey so far and recording their thoughts in the 2000-word essay.
During this phase, they will start working with new external supervisees.
They will also switch internal supervision buddies: this will give them the experience of managing endings. They will continue meeting in learning groups, but will start taking turns to lead these meetings, in preparation for supervising external groups.
After 3 months of the programme, in May 2023, we introduce group supervision skills and take a deeper dive into three different psychological modalities. Learners will start supervising groups of independent coaches.
Practising peer group supervision and receiving feedback.
If you wish to do so, you may choose to close down your practice supervision relationships by the end of this year. Or, you may decide to continue working together on a professional basis. The programme does not require you to continue into 2024, unless you need to log additional supervision hours.
We estimate that this programme will take a minimum of 200 hours, although individual learners may choose to spend longer than this.
| 20 x 2.5hr Zoom Modules | 50 hours |
| 1:1 Supervision Practice | 60 hours |
| Group Supervision Practice | 10 hours |
| Homework eg Learning Journal, Online Discussion & self -assessments | 80 hours |
| Total | 200 hours |
1. Successful completion o f the programme
2. Membership of EMCC Global (150 Euros/year)
3. Minimum of 120 supervision practice hours
4. Minimum of 10 Supervisees
We use an online learning platform that outperforms everything else on the market. It is very user-friendly, and which will act as a secure base for all the work that we do over the 12-month period. All the handouts contained within the programme will be available here, along with homework assignments and space for community discussion.
The platform acts as a container for the learning journey undertaken by participants. Each module gets unlocked at the right time, and all learner requirements are made clear and visible. Progress is indicated visually, and overdue tasks are highlighted.
Each module has a Community Discussion area where participants will share resources and reflections. Sessions are also followed up with a fun quiz.
The Learning Journal activity is an important part of the process: here we encourage social learning by partnering participants with each other to review each other’s reflections.
Accreditation supports and regulates an individual’s ongoing professional practice and provides a focus for their ongoing development.
The programme will be led by Tom Battye who will facilitate most of the taught input sessions. All members of the faculty are highly experienced coaches, supervisors and educators in this field.
Tom began supervising in 2007 and has maintained an active supervision portfolio since that time, working with internal coaches, professional services firms and independent consultants.
Tom has delivered coaching supervision inside a range of organisations including the BBC, the Dept for Business and Skills, Schlumberger, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Lisa is the programme administrator and will take responsibility for the day-to-day, month-to-month logistics of the course.
Lisa has over 25 years’ experience in PA and administration roles in various companies and extensively in the Learning & Development sector.
Lisa has been PA to Board Directors as well as project managing development programmes of varying scales.
If you would like to find out more, please book a 1:1 with Tom using the scheduler below.
Alternatively, you may apply to join the programme using the Application Form.
