Are you an experienced coach looking to deepen your coaching practice?

Do you crave real and rich conversations about the realities

of having a coaching practice?

Are you looking to expand your coaching community to include

curious, life-long learners like yourself, all while earning 10 CCEs?

If you are looking for a safe space to deeply reflect on your coaching practice with the support of experienced supervisors, you are in the right place!

A Note From Carolyn & Rosa:

Welcome to our Coaches Circle page and to our community! 

The two of us want to take a moment and share a bit about ourselves and our intention in creating this Circle.

While we come from different places, we both bring a passion for coaching, and a deep desire to support those who have also chosen the path to become coaches. 

Together we bring decades of combined experience and success in the areas of supervision, coaching, mentor coaching, and coach education.

We have also each had successful coaching businesses that have spanned decades, and know that being a coach (and also being a business owner) can sometimes feel like a solitary practice. 

Finding safe spaces to have real, relevant conversations with other coaches can be difficult.

Growing your practice and developing your coaching skills outside a classroom may be challenging.

It was with this in mind (and heart) that we created the Coaches Circle just for you!

We wanted to create a safe space for coaches to grow, reflect, learn new skills, and discuss real challenges (and celebrate real wins) they face in their everyday practices. 

And we wanted to do so in a way that brought together our signature styles, and honoured the power of the circle, to create a space that combines lightness, boldness, support and humour.  

With full hearts, we hope to see you in the Circle.

Carolyn & Rosa

What is Coaching Supervision?

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching supervision as a collaborative learning practice to continually build the capacity of the coach through reflective dialogue for the benefit of both coaches and clients.

Coaching Supervision focuses on the development of your capacity through offering a richer and broader opportunity for support and development. Coaching Supervision creates a safe environment for the coach to share their successes and failures in becoming masterful in the way they work with their clients.

Over the last several years, there has been an increase in research on the topic of Coaching Supervision, including  the recent publication in International Coaching Psychology Review, (Volume 12, No. 1, March 2017), which identified key benefits for coaches who receive Coaching Supervision, including (but are not limited to):

• Increased self-awareness
• Greater confidence
• Increased objectivity
• Heightened sense of belonging
• Reduced feelings of isolation
• Increased resourcefulness

How is this different than Mentor Coaching? 

A Mentor Coach primarily supports a coach in achieving the levels of coaching competency and building skills in the Core Competencies.

Coaching Supervision offers a coach a richer and broader opportunity for support and development.  In Coaching Supervision, there may be a greater focus on reflective practice and the being of the coach.  Coaching Supervision provides a wide-angled lens to review one's coaching practice with a fellow practitioner. 

In essence, mentor coaching involves review of your coaching practices and involves a mentor coach providing feedback in relation to where the ICF core competencies are evidenced (or not).

Coaching Supervision does not involve coaching practice review/feedback and allows the coach to bring various topics to sessions with a view to enhancing professional development.  Topics could include (and are not limited to) growing a coaching business, when and how to refer clients to counseling, considerations for both internal and external coaches, coach self care as well as coach/client boundaries and ethical issues.

About Our Circle

The Coaches Circle is a Coaching Supervision program that provides a safe space for coaches to grow, reflect, learn new skills, and discuss real challenges (and celebrate real wins) they face in their everyday practices.

We are world-class facilitators with decades of combined experience and success in the areas of supervision, coaching, mentor coaching, coach education and business ownership.

Aligned with the ICF definition of Coach Supervision, we provide a dynamic and reflective process of collaboration, guidance and support through which coaches develop their personal, professional, and ethical capacity and maturity.

The Circle blends our experience, their passion for coaching, and their signature styles, with the power of the circle, to create a space that combines lightness, boldness, support and humour.

As part of the Circle you get: 

Conversations in the Circle

To make sure that our discussions are relevant, timely and add real value to YOUR coaching practice, YOU drive the focus of the biweekly discussions.  Topics could include (and are not limited to):