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  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 134 - Collective responsibility in the group - The one about asking for what you need

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 134 - Collective responsibility in the group - The one about asking for what you need
    2025/07/15
    In this podcast, you will hear Clare and Steve discussing group supervision in particular, and how to recontract with the group for what you need. This is not just about what you need from the supervisor, but what you need and want from the group. In self-led supervision (as Louise Shepperd would call it, you have a collective responsibility as a group to define your boundaries, limits, preferences and deal-breakers (Terri Cole).

    This is for all to decide, and must not bypass group discussion by relying on the supervisor to “put things right”. How do you show up in groups? Are you there for yourself alone, or do you see yourself having collective responsibility to the group’s learning?
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    40 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 133 - Duty of Care - The one with the Peacock's Tail

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 133 - Duty of Care - The one with the Peacock's Tail
    2025/06/17
    If you have considered supervision, but not yet taken the plunge, one core reason you might, is duty of care. When might the duty of care to your client, the client's wider system - eg their family or team, or duty of care for yourself, challenge your coaching? Would you even spot it? Is supervision itself an act of duty of care to self?

    Coaching can be a lonely business, and supervision can support you in that. Steve and Clare also touch on where ethics, boundaries and duty of care meet. Steve introduces the concept of the Peacock's Tail, a systemic representation of systems of belonging.
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    33 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 132 - Wrappers around our work - The one with the sweeties

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 132 - Wrappers around our work - The one with the sweeties
    2025/05/20
    Coaching is more than just the session itself. It’s also about the wrap-arounds that create the container – and as is often the case, Steve and Clare find a metaphor that’s useful to their own understanding, that of a boiled sweet (the coaching or supervision itself) with a wrapper that has twisted ends.

    There are so many aspects to creating this wrapper – the contract being one, but also the work of the coaching custodian before coach and thinker even get to talk to each other, then there’s the preparatory work that we might ask the thinker to think through and the analysis afterwards. And all of this applies to us when we go into supervision too.
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    37 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 131 - Changing world order - the one where we "slough it off"

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 131 - Changing world order - the one where we "slough it off"
    2025/04/15
    In this episode, Clare and Steve talk about the impact of economic decisions (whether by our own UK government by the US presidency or elsewhere in the world). This conversation was triggered by a communication from a coaching platform to its coaches, but it became much more wide-ranging, as we talked about ripple effects in all areas of our work. We ask the question “Who tells coaches what we can and cannot do?” and then we meander into other arenas, including a reflection about the confidentiality and data protection of our virtual software platforms and other coach tech.

    As they say after potentially triggering TV shows, “If you are affected by the content of this programme, you can get help by…” talking with your supervisor. You do not need to face this alone.

    Get in touch if you need to talk:
    Clare Norman clare@clarenormancoachingassociates.com
    Steve Ridgley steve@illuminateddandelion.co.uk
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    43 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 130 - Mental Health Expertise - The one with the moment of self doubt

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 130 - Mental Health Expertise - The one with the moment of self doubt
    2025/03/18
    Clare and Steve explore what we as coaches might be expected to know, or do, when starting work with a client who has a diagnosed mental health condition.

    Even without clinical knowledge, is it possible to contract and move forward in a coaching relationship? How can supervision support you? What if your client has said nothing, but you have a suspicion that there might be a mental health condition present?

    If you yourself have a diagnosable mental health condition as a coach, what might you expect from a supervisor?
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    35 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 129 - Platforms and Associateships

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 129 - Platforms and Associateships
    2025/02/18
    In this episode, Clare and Steve are joined by Ginny Baillie who has much to say about associate work whether that is via a coaching platform or through an associate coaching company.

    We talk about the need for thinkers to have awareness, willingness and responsibility for the coaching to make an impact, and how current models of associate work may not be setting thinkers up for success against these criteria.

    Relationship building is top of Ginny’s top tips for associate work.

    She mentions two useful books:

    The Prosperous Coach https://amzn.eu/d/070wFzOs

    and

    The Journey of a Prosperous Coach https://amzn.eu/d/06r7fxFq

    You can find out more about Ginny at HOME | Ginny Baillie coaching
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    46 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 128 - Three way contract - The one where the rider is chocolate

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 128 - Three way contract - The one where the rider is chocolate
    2025/01/21
    In today’s episode, Steve and Clare ask the question ‘who is the customer’ when the organisation is paying for coaching. The discussion meanders (as always) through
    • the coach’s obligations in the three-way contract
    • the data (source unknown) suggests that 91% of clients change what they want from coaching part-way through the coaching
    • going with the flow
    • the coach understanding the leadership development strategy of the organisation by way of context for the coaching
    • the coaching custodian’s role in all of this. A term coined by Clare and Sam Humphrey in Clare's new book, Cultivating Coachability
    • the influence that the coach can have on said coaching custodians, once the coach has figured out their own guiding principles
    Enjoy dear listeners!


    This podcast series is supported by Trusted Coach Directory
    In an unregulated industry, where anyone can call themselves a coach, the Trusted Coach Directory exists to raise the profile, credibility and standard of professional coaches and supervisors. Visit TrustedCoachDirectory.com
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    40 分
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 127 - The client wants to do what? - The one with the inner imp

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 127 - The client wants to do what? - The one with the inner imp
    2024/12/17
    "What if you, the coach, think the learner/client's idea is 'bonkers', do you stick to a coaching frame or not?" - this was a question a coach brought to supervision recently. Clare and Steve explore this idea, confessing that we might all have guilty imps where we might deviate from the formal 'proper' coaching path. What strategies might you take when your inner imp says "You know this approach isn't proper, but go on, do it ...."
    This leads the conversation to the benefits of bringing the seemingly insignificant to supervision; also bringing our blindspots - confessing our in-the-moment self-realisation, inspired through the thoughts, approaches and comments other coaches bring to group supervision - being vulnerable enough to admit that we too have a guilty secret.

    The conversation turns to the power within bringing simple, small items to supervision - Less is more often when we come to supervision. The conversation meanders to right and wrong paths, right and wrong questions and the unconscious bias in our unintentional leading of our clients, which leads to an 'ouch' moment... and a listener award.


    This podcast series is supported by Trusted Coach Directory
    In an unregulated industry, where anyone can call themselves a coach, the Trusted Coach Directory exists to raise the profile, credibility and standard of professional coaches and supervisors. Visit TrustedCoachDirectory.com
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    35 分