by CSA Acredited Supervisor Charmaine Roche

This superb article, published, in 'Philosophy of Coaching' is by CSA grad, Dr Charmaine Roche is essential reading for supervisors working today.

This paper presents a critique of current norms relating to reflective practice and coaching ethics in the context of our aspirations as coaches and supervisors to contribute to greater social justice, equity and inclusion in the workplace and wider society.

Decolonising reflective practice and supervision (pdf)

By Laura Daley and CSA Accredited Supervisor Julie Hess 

Experienced executive coaches Laura Daley and Julie Hess walk readers through a full coaching engagement using the four phases of their Intentional Engagement Framework:

1) Creating the Container

2) Establishing the Through Line

3) Making Progress, and

4) Ending with Meaning

They provide field-tested tools, practices and structures for each phase, and conclude with insight into developing the most important tool in your coaching toolkit: you!

Using stories and examples that the authors pull from their own experience as well as dozens of colleague interviews, Do Your Best Coaching illustrates how to handle the many challenges, questions, and sticky situations coaches may encounter during an engagement. Do Your Best Coaching offers the opportunity to learn best practices from many of the top coaches in the field, and the encouragement to shift from habitual to intentional practices.

Easily adaptable for each unique coaching context, Do Your Best Coaching offers new and seasoned coaches alike the practical tools and the experiential wisdom they need to do their best coaching.

Available now as hardback/Softback or Kindle version from Amazon.co.uk

If you have lost yourself – as a result of harmful conditioning, trauma, major life changes or significant loss – how do you find your way back home?

CSA Graduate Gillian McMichael takes you on a journey of self-discovery, using her own experience of transformational change to demonstrate the powerful effect of forgiving yourself and breaking free of past conditioning. Step by step, she walks you through each stage of a self-healing process that will help you return meaning and purpose to your life, and agency to your true self.

Read Coming Home to learn how to:

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by CSA Accredited Supervisor Carrie Lynn Arnold 

In the age of multiple equity movements, it is critical to explore an unspoken nuance - the silencing of women leaders. Carrie Lynn Arnold calls attention to the history and complex dynamics that can suppress a leader's voice while offering solutions for change. Women are taught to speak up, develop confidence, leverage their strengths, polish their interpersonal skills, widen their competencies, and fight to sit at the table. But once they make it to that executive chair, they rarely examine the unspoken dynamics that impact their success.

The silencing of female voices is an all too common epidemic, preventing women from harnessing their full capabilities and leading with maximum potential. This phenomenon of isolating women by subduing their voices is a decades-old tradition. It can be impossible to avoid encounters, organizational cultures, and even feelings of self-suppression that all foster silencing. It is no longer about questioning competency or confidence. It is about understanding the complex factors and biases that are deeply embedded in relationships between men and women, amongst women, and within the dynamics of systems and the self that allows for this trend to continue despite growing successes in equity.

Carrie Lynn Arnold examines silencing, which is essential to name and recognize, as a pre-requisite to effective leadership. By understanding where we have been before, we may fully appreciate and call attention to where we need to go. Regardless of your gender or whether you are an emerging leader or a CEO of a large corporation, the silencing virus is capable of infecting everyone. Silenced and Sidelined explores what it means to feel suppressed, giving words to the experience so that leaders can begin different types of conversations about voice and leadership. There are no shortcuts or simple, easy steps; this call to leadership is a call for courage. It requires the ability to communicate with a voice that carries currency-one, people will not just hear, but follow. Given the complexity of our world and the challenges society faces, we can no longer afford leaders with silenced voices.

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by Andrew Tallents

Are you an ambitious leader wanting to fulfil your personal and professional dreams on your own terms?

Many leaders undergo executive coaching for periods of time; but learning how to self-coach every day is key to leading your own development and achieving your personal and professional potential without compromising your values and personal identity. Self-Coaching for Leaders will help you to identify where you are on the life-long journey of self-leadership and supports you as you work through the three-stage self-coaching cycle:

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by Fiona Adamson and Jane Brendgen

Mindfulness-Based Relational Supervision explores a relational and mindfulness-based approach to adult learning and development that is mutually transformational.

The initial focus of the book is a case study that shows the evolution of a dialogical supervision relationship that was transformational for both parties. The authors present their reflections and analysis of key transformational moments that brought insights which significantly enhanced their personal and professional development. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach, discussing relational neurobiology and relational mindfulness practice together with ideas from child and adult development, attachment theory, intersubjectivity, somatic experiencing, and adult learning theories.

The case study narrative charts the development of the authors’ supervision relationship, following which they share a meta-perspective on their learning journey. Finally, they discuss the implications of the study for the education and training of relational practitioners in supervision, coaching, and related fields.

The book will appeal to students, practitioners and supervisors in the helping professions, in particular counselling, psychotherapy, and coaching.

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Edited by Jo Birch

Written by experienced coaching supervisors, this book offers a kaleidoscope of wisdom drawn from a complex professional field. Theoretical concepts, practitioner research, models and techniques are brought alive here through the lived experience of the authors.

As coaching supervisors continue to develop their practice, those wishing to extend their skills into group work step into a new context which stretches and strengthens their own learning, as well as that of supervisees, in this mutual, intentional learning environment. Coaching supervisors are encouraged to begin with the inner journey, developing their own knowledge as each chapter offers a new perspective, enabling readers to gain a philosophical understanding of the process, which will guide them on their journey through the unpredictable terrain of group work.

Coaches, mentors and other practitioners looking for a Supervision Group experience will gain insights into the range of opportunities available, opening myriad possibilities for furthering personal and professional learning.

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by Clare Beckett-McInroy and Sameera Ali Baba 

In his compelling preface, Professor Peter Hawkins places the subject in context while sharing his wisdom on the importance of ongoing reflective practice in our complex world. Reflection is fundamental to an incremental and vertical approach to professional development. Furthermore, sharing such learning can create positive systemic transformation. To this end, by reflecting with peers, and more crucially, with experienced SUPERvisors, the power of reflection is enhanced. Applying learning from reflection enables professionals to increase the impact of their work.

Creative Reflective Practice is a fabulous resource for any professional as it adds to the body of knowledge on reflective practice through original contributions from experts such as David Clutterbuck, Erik de Haan, Nancy Kline, Barry Oshry, Marcia Reynolds, John Leary-Joyce and Hetty Einzig. Over forty specialists have shared their experiences on partnering with teams, culture, embodiment, education, philosophy, leadership, metaphorical landscapes, parenting, SUPERvision, existentialism and transpersonal work, making this book original and indispensable.

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by Gillian M Walter

Inspired by the author's own story, Choir of Brave Voices is a light-hearted, yet transformational, seasonal journey connecting back to the unique part of you- creativity. Finding the courage to think and speak from our most authentic 'Brave Voice' calms stress, deepens reflection, widens perspectives, and increases mental, emotional, and physical resourcefulness.

Challenges, changes, and choices are life's constants and approaching them with courage, authenticity and creativity makes all the difference. Choir of Brave Voices offers the reader a safe place to start.

The book is an invitation to play with creative curiosity. This is explored through art and poetry in seasonal chapters and is accompanied by insights and prompts for reflection. Working with both nature and creativity opens a wealth of perspectives, ideas, possibilities, and solutions.

Whether you are looking for starting points for your own reflection or journaling, or ways of bringing more creativity, courage and authenticity into your work and life, this treasure trove has something for you.

Whoever you are and whatever your profession, when you align your rational and practical mind with your creative and present mind, magic happens. 

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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Dr Brené Brown

In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brené Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection."

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and lays out an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heart-breaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Over the past two decades, Brown's extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as Brown's singular skills as a researcher/storyteller, to lay out an invaluable, research-based framework that shows us that naming an experience doesn't give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning and choice.

Brown shares, "I want this to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves. Even when we have no idea where we are."

Available now from the CSA Store
or on Amazon.co.uk