What is the Internal Supervisor? The term was coined by Patrick Casement to describe perspectives and skills that are available to a capable practitioner as they work with clients. In essence, the practitioner will be tuned to the entire range of their body/mind information during each coaching moment; they can then respond to what they ‘pick up’ from their intuition, body and intellect. And they will know how to use this splendid range of information in an instant, so that interventions are genuinely laser-like and perfectly timed. With a well developed Internal Supervisor, comes a major increase in Coaching Presence and powerful, impactful coaching.
Coaching Supervision greatly accelerates the development of the Internal Supervisor by working directly with the coaches’ internal system: intuition, body responses, hunches, awareness of energetic exchange between client and coach. By paying attention to these and to how the coach uses them or might use them in their work, a coach begins to have much greater access to subtle aspects of their own system and of the coaching process - where the main insights and shifts often occur. The coaching is no longer merely task focussed, but can become more reflective and the coach is alive to all parts of the dance. Listening becomes much more than hearing words/stories/goals; it also becomes diffuse, allowing the coach to listen at several levels simultaneously, to see patterns in the material presented by the client and to be both engaged in the coaching dialogue and also observing the process as it unfolds.
Through Coaching Supervision, coaches build their Internal Supervisor, by repeated attention to internal processes and by learning through games such as the very practical Body/Feelings/Mind exercise. This is an imaginative and thoughtful tool which quickly enables the coach to make real strides in Personal/Professional Awareness and gifts them a truer understanding of their clients. This range of information about the coaching situation becomes available to the analytical/processing mind which in turn decides interventions and strategies.
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