Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010
Time: 6.45pm to 8.30pm
Venue:
Cost: AUD $77.00 (incl. GST) per person

Product Description

What is laser coaching/supervision?

Without a doubt, this is one of the most powerful professional development tools for Coaches.

Coaches who have experienced this event describe it as:

• "A peer-based process to build coaches' self awareness and skill in a safe and non-judgmental environment"
• "An opportunity to reflect on my coaching practice and to develop my skills through learning and benefiting from the collective experience of my peers"
• "A forum for sharing and growing my skills in a meaningful way"
• "Another level of professionalism for my coaching"

The event is for any coach looking to maintain and develop their coaching skills whilst building quality coaching contacts. Remote events are conducted by telephone (you will be provided with a local telephone number to dial in on). Face-to-face events are held in any location where there are enough coaches for the event to run.

If you have never experienced Laser Coaching or Peer Supervision, come along and try it and discover why so many coaches who regularly attend are accelerating in their coaching careers.

Everyone welcome! Open to members and non- members. Of value to new coaches and highly experienced coaches alike.


WHAT HAPPENS AT SUPERVISION EVENTS?
Small groups of 5-8 Coaches share their thoughts on their current coaching experiences. Whilst this can be a forum for sharing good news and for celebrating wins and achievements, the majority of Coaches prefer to use this opportunity to work through their coaching issues and challenges. The Coaches each place an item for discussion on the table and then the group work together to coach each other towards strategies and outcomes for these personal issues and challenges.

What is interesting about the process is that we often gain as much from supporting other Coaches with their issues and challenges as we do from resolving or getting clarity on our own. In fact on occasion, when a Coach presents with an issue perceived by the group to have high urgency or complexity, the group will often agree to forego their own issues in favour of dedicating the time available to support the Coach with the pressing issue. Of course as coaches we all have the skills to work through our own coaching issues and many of us have great networks which facilitate this. However, Supervision is not limited to just 'solving issues', more accurately, issues get resolved as a by-product.

Supervision is about being together with our peers, having quality conversations, asking great questions, willing each other to a new level of awareness, sharing, checking in with other coaches, broadening our understanding of coaching and adding more depth to our coaching tool kits.

Without a laser coaching or supervision forum how would you respond if you found yourself in one of the following situations?

• Your client bursts into tears whenever you attempt to discuss relationships.
• The person you are supposed to be coaching, refuses to be coached, and his manager says it is up to you to win him round..
• Your client has asked for help to step into her inner Goddess..
• Your client is unable to separate the content from the process. It always comes back to the story and he struggles to understand how you can help him without hearing all of the details. Every session overruns..
• You've just discovered that your client has been voice recording your coaching sessions..
• Your inner voice kicked in whilst coaching and momentarily you started to doubt your ability as a Coach..
• Your client keeps asking you for advice and doesn't seem to be able to commit to any form of action unless you validate it as a good idea first..
• One of the other Coaches working on the same project as you is turning up late, being critical about the organisation and is creating some negative waves in your coaching environment..

These are just some examples of issues that might arise at Supervision. As you can see they are great cause for debate, good food for thought and we have some really interesting discussions about frameworks, agreements, ethics, morals, code of conduct, etc. Usually there is no right or wrong answer. Coaches leave with some new tools and ideas for dealing with issues that they have and with some ideas about how to improve their coaching practices.
Most importantly Coaches feel connected, supported and safe! You don't need to have an issue in order to attend. Few Coaches book Supervision just to resolve a dilemma (but many are heard to say "I'm glad Supervision is next week, I want to thrash this issue out with the group").

Most Coaches attend in order to expand their coaching skills and to generate ideas for their coaching sessions. In the same way that some of the best coaching sessions occur when your client says that they can't think of anything to discuss, or that nothing is coming up, this is also true of Supervision. Come with an open mind, trust the process and know that every individual in the group will take away from the session whatever is relevant for them at this time.
If you appreciate the power of coaching; consider the impact of receiving coaching from a group of your peers who are focused on supporting you.

Places are limited (because of the facilitator to coach ratios) and we usually SELL OUT FAST. We'd love to see you there.

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