Career. Are you engaging with the word career as a noun or a verb? The work I do as a coach enables professionals to identify, name and claim a clear career pathway for themselves. What many clients feel they have been doing when they arrive before me, is ‘careering about’ in their professional world. Or even […]
Supervision Bristol: there are a wide range of ‘caring industries’ operating within thus city of ours. Whilst bristol has been known as a city of great wealth and accademia, it is a city of great polarities too: We have high levels of homelessness and addiction. We still have communities struggling with deprivation. We have conflict between […]
Supervision in social work: Social work this is the most obvious context in which to find Clinical supervision. Whilst it is probably one of the most essential places to find supervision. Social work is by no means the only place where clinical supervision is found. The overseeing of a provider or therapeutic practitioners work in […]
Supervision Meaning: I had an email from a colleague from my university days. She sent me a one line email saying ‘what do you mean when you say Clinical Supervision?”. I have been pondering this question because it is such a wide field. Can I reply in a single sentence in return? Probably not, but here […]
Supervision Order: In my supervision blog yesterday I described the nourishment and support to be gained from the supervision session by the practitioner. The true and serious purpose of supervision is however to ‘hold the well-being of the client in mind at all times’. The fitness and ability to practice of the therapist is one […]
There are three fundamental functions of Supervision according to Kadushin. I believe they do indeed underpin all the other supervision ‘models’ and needs. Get theses right with each supervisee and you can design your alliance from there. The three are Restorative, Educative, and Supportive. Whilst all three are essential to all supervisory relationships, the amount […]
Career Coach Uk: Whether I am coaching here in the UK, or overseas, I need to bear in mind that my experience is never the same as anyone else’s. However close together, or far apart we reside. I need to be really wary of making assumptions. This is the purpose of ‘Socratic questioning’. Wikipedia give this […]
Career Coach Jobs: I was told (often actually!), that I ‘could never make my living as a coach’, helping people to find jobs. I am happily proving them wrong, albeit in my own unique way. Coaching is often seen as a parachute or second career. It’s the training people do ‘just in case’ their role or […]
Career Coach London: When I provide coaching or supervision remotely, I am often struck by the need both practitioner and client to Set The Scene. Literally, each phone conversation or Skype session will begin with a description of the environment in which each of us sits. As the British begin with the weather as a means […]
Career Coach Bristol: The best thing about being a career coach in Bristol is the diversity of the employment landscape here. For a city that has it’s roots in the tradition of sea-faring, the challenges of the slave trade and the establishment of banking, there has grown a rebellious undertow of ‘we can do this another […]