When we coach, we step into the living edge of someone else’s development. We hold their uncertainty, their doubts, their becoming. It is meaningful work, and it carries weight.
Done alone for long enough, that weight shows up in particular ways. We become subtly reactive. We take on responsibility for outcomes that were never ours. A pattern repeats across clients and we cannot see it, because we are standing inside it. And a quiet professional loneliness settles in that most of us never name.
Supervision is the deliberate pause — a place to stop doing and look at who we are while we work. Mentor coaching is the close examination of the craft itself. Both are how I spend most of my time now.
Where to start
01 — Coaches
Supervision
A reflective, restorative and ethical space for coaches with an active practice. In small groups, or one to one.
02 — Coaches
Mentor Coaching
Close work on your actual coaching, against the ICF competencies. With someone who knows how they are assessed, and is not assessing you.
03 — Individuals
Coaching
For a new role, wider responsibility, or a decision you do not want to get wrong. Paid for by you, with nobody else setting the agenda.
Team coaching, workshops, LEGO® Serious Play® and assessments are also part of my practice — other work.
Open groups
Groups are small and closed — the same people from first session to last. Supervision with Jenni Tipper starts in October; mentor coaching groups start in November and January.
Why me
Most supervisors come to this work through psychology or counselling. I came through organisations — twenty years inside banks, telcos and transformation programmes before I ever sat in a coaching chair. When you bring me a case from a system under pressure, I do not need it explained.
And I hold two lenses at once: the whole person of the coach, and the system the coaching happens inside. Coaching takes place in both at the same time, so I do not choose.
