ABSTRACT
As a coaching or mentoring practitioner, the quality of delivery and the experience that the client has with you is entirely in your hands. Given the current challenges faced by practitioners, we believe in the power of reflective practice and supervision.
This final piece charts the journey of this book from its genesis of a peer supervision handbook in New Zealand and Australia and documents some of the challenges the authors themselves faced writing it. As reflective practitioners themselves, they describe the co-creation process in writing the book and how amalgamating their collective knowledge led to them to value their own reflective practice even more.
In looking ahead for the future of supervision, the authors discuss the current tensions between peer and professional supervision and how bridging this chasm may create strategic partnership between the two. This concluding section highlights the lack of research in peer coaching and mentoring supervision and provides questions and opportunities for future research.
