Elevate Your Impact In Coaching

Become a Certified Coaching Supervisor This Year

As coaches mature in their practice, many begin to sense a shift. You might recognize that:

• You want to expand your impact in a sustainable way

• You want to support others at a deeper, more reflective level

•  You’re drawn to approaches that are evidence-based and psychologically grounded

This science-informed supervision training pathway draws on the principles of positive psychology and coaching psychology to help you supervise coaches in ways that build capability and professional resilience.

Through two progressive certification levels, you’ll learn how to work with strengths, reflective inquiry, and ethical complexity, so supervision becomes a space for growth rather than correction.

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN

• Full access to ten on-demand learning modules covering psychologically-informed tools, frameworks, and techniques for coaching supervision
• Guidance on continuing professional development as a coaching supervisor
• 40 hours of ICF Continuing Coach Education Units (28 Core Competencies + 12 Resource Development)
• Approved CPD hours with the Association for Coaching and Recertification points with the Association for Talent Development
• AoCP Certification in Coaching Supervision, with a digital badge recognizing your achievement

Foundations and Functions of Coaching Supervision
Understand the purpose, scope, and value of supervision. Explore the developmental, qualitative, and resourcing functions that underpin ethical supervision practice.

Ethical Contracting and the Supervision Alliance
Establish clear supervision contracts and psychologically safe alliances. Learn how ethics, values, and boundaries shape effective supervision relationships.

The Supervisor’s Mindset and Reflective Presence
Develop self-awareness, reflexivity, and mindful presence. Strengthen your ability to stay attuned, grounded, and responsive in supervision.

 The Developmental Function: Strengths-Based Learning
Use strengths-based and solution-focused approaches to support reflective learning, growth, and professional capability in supervisees.

Relational Presence in Supervision
Work skillfully with power, difference, and relational dynamics. Build trust while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.

 The Qualitative Function: Enhancing Ethical Practice
Support ethical decision-making and quality standards through reflective inquiry and appreciative challenge.

The Self as Instrument in Supervision
Develop awareness of how intuition, emotion, and embodied responses inform supervision, while maintaining professionalism and balance.

The Resourcing Function Psychological Wellbeing
Explore how supervision supports resilience, wellbeing, and sustainability for both supervisor and supervisee.

Systemic Awareness and Group Dynamics
Broaden perspective using systemic and contextual lenses, whilst enhancing awareness and navigation of group dynamics. 

Integrating Learning in Supervision
Consolidate learning, reflect on your supervision practice, and develop approaches to help supervisees integrate and apply their learning.

BEYOND THE MODULES: Continuing Supervision Development to embed habits of reflective practice, ongoing learning, and professional development to strengthen and evolve your supervision practice over time.

Every module builds on the last, guiding you from foundational theory to confident and competent coaching supervision.

The LEARN Mindset for Mastery in Supervision
Adopt an advanced supervision mindset grounded in curiosity, psychological flexibility, and reflective experimentation, using the LEARN framework to guide supervision conversations.

Locating Purpose: Hope, Meaning, and Direction in Supervision
Explore how purpose and meaning shape effective supervision. Use hope-based approaches to support motivation, ethical goal-setting, and professional direction.

Exploring Perspectives and Cognitive Flexibility
Develop multi-perspective awareness through psychologically informed inquiry. Learn to work with complexity, context, and alternative viewpoints in supervision.

Solution-Focused Dialogue in Supervision
Refine your supervision conversations through solution-focused and appreciative questioning that shifts reflection from evaluation to exploration.

Acknowledging Positive Factors: Strengths-based Supervision
Encourage supervisees to balance positive factors with developmental challenge to support meaningful growth using strengths-based approaches.

Confidence in Context: Building Self-Efficacy
Learn how supervision can strengthen professional confidence by building capability through evidence-based reflection.

Reviewing Pathways: Flexibility and Forward Momentum
Support supervisees to design and review practical learning pathways to promote flexibility, ownership, and professional growth.

From Insight to Action: Learning from Experience
Translate reflective insight into meaningful changes in practice, supporting supervisees to connect learning with real-world supervision outcomes.

Noticing Progress: Reflecting on Development
Strengthen reflective capacity by noticing progress over time, supporting motivation, confidence, and sustained professional development.

Evolving Supervision Practice and Identity
Integrate learning, articulate your supervision philosophy, and plan your ongoing development as an psychologically informed coaching supervisor.

Each module builds progressively, supporting your transition from capable supervisor to advanced supervision practice grounded in psychological insight.