Description
Book SynopsisSupervision assures the quality of professional practice through careful monitoring; it heals wounds through wholesome listening and support and offers a unique and free space to develop that which we all want to progress: our personal relationships.
This book will help professional supervisors, consultants and coaches with the `care for the self aspect of their role - the art of enhancing one s own performance with the help of experience in practice. The book features:
- A compact overview of the whole profession of coaching and consulting supervision
- An integrated approach for coaches and consultants, highlighting differences
- More than 40 real-life case vignettes
- Short summaries after each chapter
- A full overview of types of contract and methodology, with specific flowcharts
- A detailed introduction to the ethics of supervision
Supervision in Action is a book for all professional consultants who want to take go
Table of ContentsSeries editor's preface
Introduction: metaphors for supervisionSupervision as quality assurance: strengthening nested relationships
Techniques of the supervisor: echoes of other relationships
Techniques of the supervisee: scales of reflection
The organisation supervisor: shadow consulting in full colour
Transcript of a supervision session: all the things I didn’t say
Supervision methods: improvisation and structure
Ethical maturity and contracting for supervision: the full quality cycle
Appendix A: The history of transference and parallel processes
Appendix B: The relational approach and quantitative research
References
Index