Optional Modules
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Group Supervision for Executive Coaches (BCG)
(Module Leaders: Gil Schwenk and Nick Smith) This module focuses on the theory and practice of Group Supervision.
- Marketing and selling group supervision to organisations and independent coaches
- Contracting with client organisations for group supervision
- How to set up a supervision group: size, selection, logistics, content and evaluation
- Contracting with a group at the beginning that leads to successful outcomes
- Facilitating group supervision sessions
- Balancing individual, group and supervision (task) needs
- Exploring group dynamics and how they affect group supervision
- Using the seven-eyed model of supervision in groups
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Methods to increase participation and group effectiveness
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Supervising in Teams and Organisations (CSTD)
(Module Leader: Professor Peter Hawkins) This course focuses on how to supervise with the team and wider organisation and system in mind, as well as how to specifically supervise team and organisational coaching.
- Supervising with the team and organisation in mind – including practical supervision work in small groups
- Understanding teams, team coaching, team stages, aspects of team development
- Supervising teams and team coaching – including participation in a systemic team sculpt
- Understanding organization culture and change and supervising organizational coaching and consultancy – including work in small groups supervising organisational aspects of the supervisee’s role
- Creating a coaching culture and effective coaching strategy in organisations
- Thinking systemically
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The psychology of groups and teams
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Working with Difference (CSTD)
(Module Leader: Judy Ryde) The aim of the module is to ensure that students have the skill and capacity to:
Topics covered include:
- Work more effectively in supervising people of different backgrounds (race, gender, class etc)
- Effectively supervise the diversity aspect of their supervisees, and
- Develop a capacity for transcultural awareness and competence, both in themselves and their in supervisees
- The meaning of the term ‘culture’ in its broadest sense
- The relationship between the personal and the social/political
- Issues of power in the therapy and supervision relationships
- The nature of prejudice and how it can be worked within ourselves and others
- Live practice of supervision for the exploration of the issues