ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the benefits of coaching supervision and how supervisees can make the most of the process, based on doctoral research into what coaching supervisees experience during supervision and what helps and hinders them. This is a new perspective; there is a gap in the research and literature about the supervisee perspective and approaches and models to date have focused on supervision from the perspective of the supervisor even though it is more challenging and exposing to be the supervisee. The chapter describes what gets in the way during supervision namely supervisees being paralysed by feelings of anxiety, fear of judgment and shame, bad habits that they can adopt, lack of agency in the supervisee and power dynamics. The chapter shares how supervisees have learnt to ‘drive the bus’ of their supervision by adopting a positive mindset, co-creating the relationship, participating actively in the process and undertaking supervision related training. The chapter considers what might be going on underneath the surface during supervision, outlines the stages of supervisee maturity and concludes with a framework and guidelines for supervisee-led supervision, which has been designed to enable supervisees to be active participants in their supervision.
