Introducing Coach Supervision.
Transformational support for coaches to ensure your professional life and personal development are thriving.
Become the coach you were born to be.
Reboot Coach Supervision offers transformational support for coaches both new and seasoned who are looking to deepen their own practice and uncover an increasing awareness of their inner landscape as it relates to their work as a coach in order to embody “the work” in the vocation of coaching. We believe that better humans make better coaches and better coaches have a more satisfying career—and make a bigger impact in the world.
Transformational Support for the Coach
As a coach, are you willing to invest in your professional self?
Supervision is an oft overlooked, and necessary, part of a coach’s ongoing growth and development. A coach in ongoing supervision -- either 1-1 or in a group context -- is committed to honing their presence as a coach and to the mastery of their craft through connection and ongoing learning.
In order for clients to experience transformation in the coaching container, the coach must unwaveringly travel the path of transformation themselves. Find connection with other coaches in a professional context that fosters ongoing learning and personal growth.
Become the human, and the coach, you were born to be.
Coach Supervision Services
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1-1 Coach Supervision
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Introduction to Group Supervision: A 6-Month Group Experience
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Ongoing Coach Supervision Groups
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3-Day Coach Retreat at EQUUS in Santa Fe, NM - October 18-20, 2024
Radical Self Inquiry + Practical Skills + Shared Experiences
= Greater Resiliency and Equanimity for Coaches
Better humans make better coaches and better coaches make better humans. Yes, this means, even coaches need coaches. The need for radical self-inquiry isn’t limited to those who hold organizational power. It is an essential step in becoming the adults we were born to be. When coaches coach from a place of inadequate self-development, they run the risk of a kind of malpractice. They run the risk of using the coaching session to work out their unconscious challenges, turning the client into an object of their own unprocessed needs and incomplete adulthood. Reboot Supervision provides coaches with the ability to use radical self-inquiry to grow as coaches (and as adult humans).
Radical self-inquiry is the process by which the masks we wear are slowly, skillfully, and compassionately removed so that there’s no place left to hide—even from ourselves. Coaching can be transformative for the client, but only if the coach is able to soothe their own fears, do their own work.
Coaching requires courage. The courage to do or say something which the client may not like. Coaches must give the clients what they need and not necessarily what they say they want. Radical self-inquiry through supervision is a way to ensure that the coach isn’t deluding themself, telling themself they are giving, responding to, holding themself in such a way as it meets the client’s needs and not merely their wants.
Supervision allows coaches to practice the practical skills of coaching—skills such as understanding and using counter-transference and induced feelings—to better assess what is the client’s transformational agenda (and not merely responding to their presenting agenda).
Coaching takes courage. In coach training, it is often said that the coach’s challenge to a client, the challenge that unlocks transformation, should take the client’s breath away. It should be so audacious and more than a little scary as to unlock the client’s potential. Similarly, coaching should take the coach’s breath away. Every session should be approached as an opportunity to not only hone the skills needed to be the best coach one can be but to do the radical self-inquiry necessary to be in service to the client. The shared experience of a supervisory group is an opportunity to have your breath taken as you see the ways your own limiting beliefs (and subroutines) may be getting in the way of your service to your clients.
Coaching requires the courage to hold the client’s big, uncomfortable feelings. Not just their tears and fears but their anger and hurt as well even if—indeed, especially if—it triggers the coach’s fears, tears, anger, and hurt.
Mastery in coaching is the ability to leave behind the fears of doing things incorrectly to trust your intuition (while having the courage to use radical self-inquiry to check ones’ own intuition) to be in maximum service to the client. It’s where you develop the courage and confidence to challenge your clients, to rise above your own fears, to give them what they need and not necessarily what they ask for. Too often coaches respond to the client’s presenting agenda (where they communicate what they want) leaving behind the opportunity to support the transformational agenda.
Great coaches have the courage to meet their clients in such a way that the client continues in the work because of its value and not because they depend on the coach.
What Makes a Great Coach
Many coaches are plagued by a sense that they have to “get it right” – a mindset that is counterproductive to great coaching. In this conversation, Joel Monk, founder of Coaches Rising, talked with executive coach Jerry Colonna to explore the essence of coaching, coaching in the crisis of modernity, spirituality in coaching, modeling wholeness, trusting intuition and authenticity in coaching.
The Biggest Challenges for Coaches
Possibly the biggest challenge for coaches is holding the tension between the client’s agenda and our job of listening for the underlying issue. In this conversation on the Coach's Rising Podcast, founder Joel Monk talks with Jerry Colonna to look at the relationship between change and conflict, how to navigate a client’s presenting agenda, and the ins and outs of attunement.
Meet Our Team
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Allison Schultz, Reboot Co-Founder
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Cassandra Field, MA, LPC, CACIII
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Liz Stewart, APSI, BCSI
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Kelly Wendorf, Founder of EQUUS
“I have three definitions of supervision. The first is that supervisor and supervisee do whatever is necessary to bring the supervisee to be more present with their client. I hypothesize that the source of the issue being brought is at some level the supervisee’s lack of presence. The second is ‘taking the fear out of our work’. Both these definitions overlap, as one of the main reasons for lack of presence is fear. The final one, which I love, is given by a six-year-old. He is learning to read and reads the title of a supervision book which is on his mother’s desk. His mother asks, ‘Do you know what supervision means?’ ‘Oh yes,’ he replies confidently, ’It’s when you see through things and see what’s really there.”
— ROBIN SHOHET, author of In Love with Supervision
Download the Guide:
An Introduction to Coach Supervision
Learn more about how coach supervision can support you in your professional and personal growth. Full of resources, frameworks, and questions for reflection on your own practice, this guide will be a resource you’ll revisit time and time again.
A Blessing for One Who Coaches
by Allison Schultz & Jerry Colonna
May you always coach from the center of your being
May you never lose touch with your struggles
so that you may use them as the currency of empathy
so that you understand who your client is
and how you may be of service.
May you have the wisdom
Of the wild things
Like the knowing of the sparrow
When it's time to fly.
May you be connected to your inner knowing
Like the nightsight of the owl
Able to discern what's felt in your animal body
With the clarity to know what is yours
And what isn't--looking awry
To what may linger in shadow.
May your being be a safe place
An offering, a pause, a stillness.
May your presence be a mirrored container
for someone to feel seen.
May your listening be a big ear
for others to hear their voice clearly.
May you lead with curiosity and wonder
Riding the turbulence of consciousness
With ease and grace.
May you be a guide across thresholds
To new possibilities,
More aliveness and lived integrity.
May you set out to do the work of a lifetime
Surrounded by resources in your work, your heart, and life.
May you have good colleagues to lean on and learn with
May the earth hold you as it rests in the cosmos.