Coach Supervision

Attune / Sonja Vlaar provides individual and group coach supervision for external and internal coaches, leaders, HR professionals, and Learning & Development practitioners who support leaders and teams to optimize high performance.

Coach supervision is NOT coaching the coach!

Coach supervision is:

• reflective practice for learning and development. In partnership with me as a coach supervisor, you as a coach will examine the coaching work within evolving systems, focusing on patterns, thinking models, and relationship dynamics.
• the formal process of professional supervision support ensures continuing development of you as a coach and the effectiveness of your coaching work, through interactive reflection, interpretative evaluation, and the sharing of expertise in our supervisory sessions. (I as your supervisor have no direct contact with your client)
• the process by which you as the coach, and with my support in the role of your coach supervisor, can attend to understanding both the client-system and yourself as part of the client-coach system, and transform your work.

Coach supervision  benefits the coach, the clients of the coach, and their organizations and serves as a cornerstone for the integrity and quality of coaching through:

• Coaching skill-building and increased awareness and understanding of how the coach reacts to the dynamics of client interventions
• Support for the emotional well-being of the coach the working with  clients and the client-system affected by the changes of COVID and the VUCA environment
• Attention to sustaining a professional caliber of services offered by the coach, including adherence to the Global Code of Ethics.

Blogs / articles about coach supervision:

ChatGPT voor reflectie-rapport  (Feb 2023)

Zoiets doe je toch niet! uitnodiging voor webinar voor supervisoren (March 2020)

• Provide a safe space for coaches to reflect on their work for deepening insight and learning.
• Increase self-awareness and the ability to notice patterns, blind spots, biases, self-limiting mindsets.
• Deepen insight into the client’s passion and struggles. Foster the capacity to track, and be with, what is most important in every moment.
• Foster the ability to focus attention and more closely connect, emotionally and intellectually, with the leaders and the systems in which they work.
• Embody and anchor the learnings to increase resilience and high-performance readiness of the coach
  Expand the capacity for experimentation with alternative coaching approaches by leveraging intuition and imagination to developed collaborative solutions with clients.
• Develop coaches’ trust in themselves and their capacity to be both courageous and vulnerable. Enhance ability to handle uncertainties and work through challenging client situations.

Do you need a coach supervisor?

• Sonja is LVSC certified supervisor. Credential Identifier: ID S11329H since 2003 and renewed every 5 years in 2008, 2013, and 2018 (to be renewed again in September 2023). LVSC is a member of the European umbrella organization ANSE
• Since 2019 she is an active member of the Global Supervisor’s Network (GSN). The members include certified coach supervisors working in many countries (India, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, Oman, and Turkey, as well as throughout Europe such as Spain, Poland, Portugal, France, Finland, Hungary, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, and the UK). The GSN community has been founded by Eve Turner and brings together some of the leading thinkers in the field of coach supervision.
• Sonja is an active member of World Business & Executive Coaching (WBECS) and Coaching.com. On these learning platforms for professional coaches she is also available as a qualified coach supervisor.