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Julia has regularly participated in her own coaching supervision from the start of her coaching journey, and she believes that it is her time in supervision that has been the most influential in her development as a coach. She has taken this learning into her own practice as a coaching supervisor and views it as an essential space for being at our “learning edge” with our clients.
Julia offers 1-2-1 and group supervision, both face-face and virtual. She also offers supervision-on-supervision to support ourselves in gaining a meta-perspective.
Julia believes developing our self-awareness and reflective practice is critical to being an effective and successful coach. She views coaching supervision as part of this development – it is a process of helping you step back and take a “helicopter” meta perspective of your coaching work and practice. Whilst the terms “supervision” may lead you to have some negative feelings, coaching supervision is a relationship of equality and support, a mutually collaborative relationship. A relationship where reflection in and on practice, to enhance self-awareness is the focus.
Julia’s supervision approach will aim to create a “sandpit in which to play, rather than a courtroom in which to judge” (Shohet) – a safe reflective and restorative place where you can do your best quality thinking. Unlike in coaching she may offer thoughts, advice and guidance for your consideration in the spirit of supporting your ongoing development as a coach. She will be aiming for both of us to be working at our learning edge and create a spirit of ‘joint endeavor’. In our work Julia will be holding up an ethical lens when appropriate and ensure that we hold your clients, their organisations and stakeholders in mind throughout.
Whilst she will be completely focused on you and your goals for the session and it may, at times, feel like coaching it is important that the supervision is in service of the clients you are working with. Therefore, we will be ‘bringing’ the client into the room and taking a systemic perspective. You might like to ask yourself before a session “what would my clients want me to think about today?”
Coaching supervision is most successful when you are willingly engaged in the process, feel safe and trust Julia. Please let her know what she can do to create ‘psychological safety’ for you to feel safe to reflect on your practice. You might also want to think about what a “successful supervision relationship” looks and feels like for you.
What do you need from a coaching supervision relationship so you can confront all aspects of your work, even those areas where you feel ashamed?
"I can highly recommend Julia as a supervisor for your coaching practice. I came out of our first session with an overwhelming sense of being in safe, skilled, knowledgeable and supportive hands and I find every session with her immensely valuable. She calmly supports you to think deeply, consider dilemmas from new perspectives, and raises your self-awareness, and always with the best interests of your client in mind. I would not hesitate to recommend her."
"My two best group learning and reflection experiences were in supervision groups with Julia. She creates an open, non-judgemental environment where you can lose the inhibitions that meddle with shared reflection. The balance of contracting, structure, and establishing our way of working alongside an experimental, fluid and in the moment approach was perfect for me. Julia has set the bar for me with supervision style, supervisor selection, the value of supervision and the necessary conditions for generating self-awareness. I would recommend Julia to coaches of any capability if supervision is much more than a tick box compliance activity; you need to be willing to work on your self"
If you’re wondering whether supervision is worth it let me just share it’s worth every moment and will change your approach and skill as a coach far beyond any formal coaching programme. And if you’re lucky enough that Julia Carden is your supervisor then it will be at a whole another level. There is no-one else in my experience who has such a wealth of knowledge to draw on, and she’s a master at her craft, whether one on one or in a group. I cannot recommend her enough.
In the years Julia’s steered our Supervision Group she’s been nothing less than masterful. Her passion, sharp mind and a soul clearly in perfect harmony with the work she does creates a compelling mix. As does her openness, curiosity and playful spirit. She has a focused wisdom around the current trends and debates in coaching and gently calls things out for what they really are. She also works hard at providing a space for useful solution-based debate. I'd wholeheartedly recommend Julia as a Coach Supervisor as well as a thoroughly nice human being. I’m a much better coach because of her.
Julia's supervision on supervision sessions are a time to reflect, do some good thinking, work with the wonderful wisdom of the group, but mostly to be held in a space by Julia that is safe, challenging, experienced, has humour and a groundedness in it, but most of all humility and her wonderful and wise self-awareness. I look forward to them throughout the year - so much so I went to Julia with a group already formed we wanted to work with her so much!
I have worked with many supervisors over the years - I can't recommend Julia highly enough. Supervision on supervision is sometimes a tough gig to hold - the lens on the lens - and the lens on ourselves as we hold up the lens on our supervisees. Julia has unbelievable knowledge, a masterful and human way around things, and holds structure and in the moment flexibilty at the same time. She is willing to go to the edge with us all and stretch and grow in service of us and the supervisees that we bring. The work that she has done and continues to do on self-awareness, on her own self-awareness and therefore what she brings to us as a group, and as individuals is deep, wise, and so very much appreciated. If you want a supervisor, as a supervisor myself, I would recommend Julia any day. She will be honest with you, be warm, be stretching and be very very human.
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