Peer Supervision in Coaching and Mentoring: A Versatile Guide for Reflective Practice
Tammy Turner, Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker
Routledge
978 11380 6130 9
5 out of 5
I read a lot of books on coaching and many are soon forgotten. But this has become a reference guide for me in supervising newly trained coaches.
The authors pool together their collective experiences of peer supervision, in a conversational style. I found myself making notes of pages and exercises to use for supervision and coach training. Always a good sign.
I also rate this book because it speaks to the core values of reflective practice and how peer supervision delivers on this.
The range of creative exercises will keep your peer supervision sessions refreshed.
I particularly enjoyed the simple, yet deep models, like Lucas’ the House of Supervision and the authors’ lively, honest debates on issues such as the benefits and limits of peer supervision.
Topics include: Defining Peer Supervision, Understanding Reflective Practice, One-on-One and Group Peer Supervision, Managing Pitfalls, and Ethics with lots of great discussion questions and exercises and practices.
A gem of a resource that is by my side at every group supervision call and will be for a long while yet.
- Jackee Holder is an author, leadership coach, coach supervisor and reflective practitioner. She has been in a peer supervision one-on-one practice for the past five years
Coaching and Trauma: From Surviving to Thriving
Julia Vaughan Smith
McGraw-Hill Education
978 03352 4842 1
5 out of 5
Ever wondered why the inner critic and imposter syndrome are such recurring themes in coaching? Where do these feelings come from? What drives people to burn out? This masterful new book reveals that it is often related to underlying trauma.
Vaughan Smith uncovers how trauma is far more widespread than often realised, perhaps even part of the human condition. Indeed, the book gently challenges us to look at whether the coach’s own temptation to “rescue” clients might come from the coach’s own “trauma biography”.
In this book, Vaughan Smith, a highly experienced psychotherapist and coach, equips the coach to become more psychologically minded while protecting coaching boundaries.
It is not the coach’s role to work with the client’s trauma. But we can use an understanding of “there and then” dynamics of past trauma to guide the “here and now” of coaching. We learn practical tips for stepping into this work safely, not least by building compassion.
This book is a great gift to coaching. After reading it, you may view your clients, and maybe yourself, in a new light.
Paul Heardman is a coach and coaching supervisor in the UK Civil Service
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