October 18,2021: Loyalty @ work: how to use loyalty as a catalyst for self-reflection in SuperVision with Thea Bombeek, PMC, ESIA
Your family of origin is your first context. This is where you get a blueprint of the important life themes. There you learn to deal with good and bad, recognition and punishment, power and authority, self-validation, and self-demarcation. You get experiences in how to cope with tensions and conflicts, and how loyalties and legacies work. This happens both consciously and unconsciously. With this blueprint, you enter your work context both as a coach and supervisor.
Why do your clients and supervisees always seem to bring similar topics to your own? What about your own choice of becoming a coach? How have your professional choices been influenced by your desire to respond to the expectations of your parents? Possibly (invisible) loyalties to your family of origin are playing tricks on you.
In this lecture, you discover these underlying processes and patterns… and their impact on your (career) choices and that of your clients. It helps you to make conscious choices when dealing with professional challenges in a more constructive way. It will increase your effectiveness. Living more in alignment with your essence and at the same time staying loyal to your family will create inner peace. It will give meaning to your life. Furthermore, the insights you gain from this lecture will help you to address these themes with your coachees and supervisees.
Bio: Thea Bombeek, MCC, ESIA, EIA, CTPC, has more than 20 years experience in international companies (KBC-CBC and KPMG). Her strengths lie particularly in the areas of authentic leadership, personal development, organisational culture, purpose, communication and dealing with loss. Thea has Master’s degrees in History of Art (University of Ghent) and in Human Resources Management (Antwerp Management School). She is a Master Certified Coach (ICF), a Certified Transformation Presence Coach and Mentor (Alan Seale), and a contextual-systemic coach (Leren over Leven). She holds an Individual European Accreditation at the level of Senior Practitioner (EMCC) and a European Supervision Individual Accreditation (EMCC). Thea is the former chair of the International Coach Federation Belgium. She is a visiting lecturer at the Sociale Hogeschool Ghent and she facilitates supervision for coaches and HR managers.
Key Elements of Conducting Research with Joel DeGirolamo, September 27, 2021
In this session, Dr. Goldvarg explains Compassion Fatigue, presents symptoms, and discusses strategies to manage it.
In this session, Natalia de Estevan Ubeda presents her doctoral research on The Learning Journey of Highly Experienced Supervisors.
June 21, 2021
Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in Coaching Supervision:
This segment of the Americas Coaching Supervision Network reviewed three fundamental intersectional concepts through the coaching and supervision experience. Principles of “diversity” in coaching have been embraced by ICF and EMCC. Globally, both organizations have recognized the importance of incorporating diversity-related best practices in everyday coaching work. The opportunity to address these principles becomes imperative when considering the value and multi-layered impact of coaching supervision. Throughout the interactive session, participants were asked to reflect on how increased awareness and understanding of DEI can enhance and up-level their coaching and supervision practices. The goal is to empower coaches to effectively meet the challenge of recognizing systemic inequality while also increasing their comfort level initiating dialogue about the same. A list of working EDI terminology will be made available to attendees
DeBorah “Sunni” Smith Bio:
For more than a decade, Sunni Smith has successfully trained and coached entities in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion. Organizations that have benefitted from her training include IBM; the Center for Disease Control; FiLM iNDEPeNDANT and Genentech & Roche International. Her executive/leadership coaching practice is an organic outgrowth of professional backgrounds in public policy, media, and law. As a thought-partner, she is a value-added asset in the emerging, complex, and compelling work toward cultural competency in coaching.
Sunni is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, an adjunct with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and a certified executive coach with Executive Coaching Connections (ECC). She also is certified in Conversational Intelligence®(C-IQ), Team Advantage Coaching®, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and Conflict Resolution. She received her foundational coach training from Goldvarg Consulting and recently completed a certification in Coaching Supervsion.
Gestalt is an exciting dynamic approach to coaching and supervision. The emphasis is on working in the Here & Now – attending to emotions and experience that arise in the session, while the Paradox of Change is the guiding principle at the core of Gestalt practice. This means that a key part of the work and learning comes from attending to the quality of the relationship between the Supervisor/Coach, where the Supervisor is attending as much to their own internal reactions as to the issues presented by the Coach. The Field concept of Parallel Process is therefore another key focus in this way of working.
John Leary-Joyce explained these principles in relation to Hawkins’ Seven-Eyed Supervision Model, which aligns well with the Gestalt approach, to systematically address the different Supervision ‘modes’. An attached chapter from my book Fertile Void, Gestalt Coaching at Work outlines this model.
Our complimentary monthly meeting in March was part of the Pre-Conference.
Michelle Lucas and Paul Sanbar presented a pre-conference event on “The Coaching Super – Vision Mindset” as well as an exercise on “Misfits”. Sound intriguing?