Your Turn videos
Show a moment from a supervision session, ask you to pause and decide, then reveal a model answer with the reasoning.
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Coaching Supervision Essentials
What a coaching supervisor does, taught through the eight Coaching Supervision Competencies of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). You practice in the supervisor’s chair: pause, decide what you would do, then check your thinking against a model answer.
Who it is for
For experienced coaches who want to do one of three things
Receive supervision well
See what a supervisor does with the work you bring, such as the session that left you uneasy.
Supervise a peer
Make the supervisor’s decisions yourself, competency by competency, and check them against model answers.
Decide whether to train as a supervisor
See what the supervisor’s work involves before you commit to a training.
Often credentialed at Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or MCC level. You do not need to supervise anyone yet: every practice moment uses a hypothetical coach.
Free access
Start Coaching Supervision Essentials
Enter your name and email. We create your Tandem Coaching Academy account and email you the link to the course.
What you get
- A Welcome and eight modules, each on one area of the ICF Coaching Supervision Competencies
- 58 videos: 40 teaching videos, 12 Your Turn videos and 6 case videos
- A scenario on every lesson page to decide before you read the answer
- Worksheets, each with an answer key
- Taught by Cherie Silas, MCC and EMCC-accredited coaching supervisor
Self-paced: there are no live sessions and no assignments. Start with the Welcome video and go at your own speed.
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The curriculum
A Welcome and eight modules, one competency area at a time
There are 58 videos in all: 40 teaching videos, 12 Your Turn videos and 6 case videos.
Welcome: how this course works. How the modules follow the eight ICF Coaching Supervision Competencies, and how the pause-and-decide practice works.
- 01
Foundations of Coaching Supervision
The ICF definition; Competency 1, Provides Ethical Guidance. Brigid Proctor’s three functions of supervision (normative, formative and restorative), and the four neighboring practices: coaching, mentor coaching, performance evaluation and therapy.
- 02
Ethical Guidance
Competency 1, Provides Ethical Guidance. The codes and the context a coach works in, dilemmas before they become breaches, and boundaries under pressure.
- 03
Contracting and Managing the Process
Competency 3, Establishes and Updates Contracts; Competency 4, Manages the Supervision Process. The supervision contract, the limits of confidentiality, the CLEAR model (Contracting, Listening, Exploring, Action, Review) from Peter Hawkins, and re-contracting.
- 04
Reflective Practice and Use of Self
Competency 2, Engages in Ongoing Reflection and Self-Care. A four-stage reflective cycle adapted from Gibbs’s reflective cycle (1988), use of self, and restoring yourself.
- 05
Creating a Supportive Environment
Competency 5, Creates a Supportive Environment. Support and challenge, the dynamics between supervisor and coach, power and inclusion.
- 06
Facilitating Reflection
Competency 6, Facilitates Client Reflection. The Seven-Eyed model of supervision (Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet), parallel process, and the systemic lens.
- 07
Guiding Client Development
Competency 7, Guides Client Development. The Integrated Developmental Model (Stoltenberg and Delworth) and adapting your stance to a coach’s level.
- 08
Group Supervision
Competency 8, Manages Group Supervision. Four types of supervision group (Brigid Proctor and Francesca Inskipp), structured formats, airtime and inclusion. The final lesson looks at one session through all eight competencies.
In the ICF competency names, “client” means the coach you supervise.
How the practice works
You practice in the supervisor’s chair
You decide what you would do as the supervisor, then check your thinking against a model answer. Start with the Welcome video.
Case videos
Follow one coach’s story to a point where you commit to what you would say, then see a model response.
Lesson pages and worksheets
Every lesson page has a scenario to decide before you read the answer, and every worksheet comes with an answer key.
Your instructor
Taught by a Master Certified Coach and accredited supervisor
Cherie Silas, MCC
Cherie Silas is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and an accredited coaching supervisor with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). She teaches Coaching Supervision Essentials.
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Before you sign up
Is the course really free?
Yes. Every module, video, lesson page and worksheet is free, and the form asks only for your name and email. There are no live sessions and no assignments. Nothing you do here is submitted or graded.
What do I need to take it?
An email address for your Academy account and a web browser. The course is built for experienced coaches, and you do not need to supervise anyone yet.
Where does the course live?
In the Tandem Coaching Academy, Tandem’s learning community on Heartbeat. The lesson pages, scenarios and worksheets are there, and the videos are also in a public YouTube playlist.
What happens after I sign up?
We create your Tandem Coaching Academy account, add the course to it and email you the link. Open the link, sign in and start with the Welcome video. If you already have an Academy account, sign up with the same email and the course is added to that account.
Free course
Start Coaching Supervision Essentials
Free and self-paced, with Cherie Silas, MCC. Your link to the course arrives by email.
To go further: bring your own coaching to a supervisor or train as a coaching supervisor in Tandem’s ICF-accredited training.