ABSTRACT
Supervision is a mechanism for safeguarding quality of work, and developing professional skill and competence, adopted into coaching from the analogous professions of counselling, psychotherapy and social work. The most widely used models in supervising one-to-one coaching are adapted from the counselling field.126 These books offer useful checklists and methods for managing the complexities of supervision, such as the ‘seven-eye’ model127 and the ‘helping/hindering’ and ‘structured group supervision model’128
(which is similar to the Balint method described in the previous chapter). This chapter extends these discussions by focusing on the group dynamic dimension of supervision groups, and introducing ideas from a group-specific supervision literature.
