Coaching supervision: Case based - an experience from Russia

Coaching Supervision

Experience from Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Klarin, PhD, BCC

2014

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In Emerging Professional Environment

Coaching Market Is Fresh •  Coaching is new as a concept and practice •  Coaching is mixed with training, consulting,

advising, and mentoring •  Market is flooded with all sorts of coaches &

coaching •  E.g., astrological coaching, sex coaching, info

coaching... (You name it) •  The coaching profession is at emerging stage

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Coaching Supervision Market: Nonexistent •  Use of coaching supervision is limited to

the training process in coaching schools •  No request for supervision from

customers •  Low demand, no supply for coaching

supervision

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Why Coaching Supervision Workshop?

•  An enthusiastic attempt to introduce quality approach to professional development


Moscow Coaching Supervision Workshop

•  Founded as a regular professional event •  Run monthly from August 2011 •  Open group, 8-12 people •  Over 25 coaching cases in 3 years

•  Confidentiality, ICF Code of Ethics •  Minutes/protocols •  Confidential, for group participants only


Typical Themes /Categories •  Coaching Boundaries •  Coach’s Own State/Behavior •  Organizational Issues •  Relationships With Client •  Transference issues •  Counter-transference issues

•  Parallel Processes •  Company Policy: Loaded Situations •  …….


Theme: Coaching Boundaries

•  Is the case for coaching or rather for… •  therapy? •  counseling? •  advising? •  training? •  …….


Theme: Coach’s Adequacy

•  Is my method OK for this case? •  Is what I am doing really coaching •  Am I OK for this client? •  ………

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Theme: Organizational Issues •  What do I do when my client’s

development starts conflicting the framework set by the Company? •  How do I get out of the organizational

political traps? •  How do I avoid the company’s political

traps •  ………


Theme: Relationships With Client /Transference issues What do I do when… •  my client insists on getting advice from me? •  the client looks at me as a young lady nice to

talk with? •  the client says: ‘I don’t want to discuss any

goals. We just talk…’ •  ………

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Theme: Relationships With Client /Counter-Transference Issues What do I do now •  that my client stopped progressing, and I

see that he needs my support? •  when my client is progressing so fast I

realize she does not really need me? •  when I feel I hate the client’s company?..’ •  ………


Theme: Parallel Processes •  My client’s conflict seems a carbon copy

of my own recent situation when I left my boss and my job •  I am thinking of parting with my partner.

Now here comes this lady top manager who turns out to be in the middle of the same situation!.. •  ………


Theme: Politically Loaded Situations •  My client’s is a big person; his situation is

about a heavily charged public issue •  Hard for me to stay neutral

•  My client is a He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named •  I realize that under the circumstances our work

may become somewhat risky… •  ………


New Point Of Interest: Non-Coaching Supervision

•  Supervision for management consultants •  Supervision for personal advisors •  Supervision for personal assisstants


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Coaching supervision: Case based - an experience from Russia