25/09/2026
๐ง ๐๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ก๐๐ฌ? ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฃ๐จ๐... ?
Holding the new ICF Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS) from the International Coaching Federationanswers that question.
โ What does that actually mean?
We spend a great deal of time talking about the importance of coaching for leaders. But who supports the coach?
Coaches sit with complexity, and more often than not we hold difficult conversations, we work with relationships, systems, power, emotions, ethical dilemmas and sometimes considerable uncertainty. So we also need a space to think, reflect and be challenged too.
โญ Coaching supervision provides that space.
It goes beyond developing coaching technique. It invites us to look at what is happening in the work, around the work, and within ourselves as practitioners.
๐ฌ For the coaches I supervise, this means having a confidential reflective space to explore their practice, ethical dilemmas, boundaries, relational and systemic dynamics, professional identity and their own presence in the coaching relationship.
๐ฌ For my coaching clients, it represents something slightly different but equally important: another layer of professional quality assurance behind the coaching they receive, a commitment on my part to reflection, ethical practice, continued learning and professional accountability.
There is distinction between the two ICF specialisations:
๐น Mentor Coaching is about:
How am I coaching, and how can I develop my coaching competence?
๐น Coaching Supervision is about:
What is happening in me, between me and my client, and within the wider system โ and what does that mean for my practice?
Both matter equally because becoming an experienced coach should never mean that we stop examining our own practice. Actually, I believe that the more experienced we become, the more important that reflection becomes.
