Supervision sessions fundamentals

The following guidelines will guide our work together:

Confidentiality

As your supervisor, I recognize that you may have future plans, business affairs, customer lists, financial information, job information, personal information and other information that you consider is confidential. I will not, either directly or indirectly use any such information or disclose it to anyone else without direct permission from you the client, except under the following circumstances:

There is a life-threatening situation
I become aware of the abuse of a minor
Terrorism
If required to by law
When working with my supervisor at which time I will use a different name and any corporate information would remain anonymous. On occasion I may need to tape record a supervision session for my own accreditation, in which case I will agree this with you in advance.
When training other coaches, I sometimes use examples of my client work to illustrate points. These references will be anonymous with significant details changed but if you would rather, I didn’t use examples from our work, please let me know.

Roles and Responsibilities

As your coaching supervisor I will take responsibility for:

Creating a safe place
Giving and receiving feedback
Checking in on our relationship
Monitoring ethical issues
Time keeping

As supervisee I ask you to take responsibility for:

Preparing for our sessions
Presenting your work and relevant issues
Your learning (objectives); applying the learning
Feedback to yourself and me
Keeping notes of sessions

Integrity

If I ever say or do something that upsets you or makes you feel uncomfortable or you would like to change our way of working, please bring it to my attention. In order for our work to be effective, you must be honest with me, do not be afraid of upsetting me. I would prefer that we clear it up straight away so that our relationship can be a safe place where you feel fully supported and can be yourself, without fear of judgement and you get the best possible result from our work together. There is always a learning opportunity in every exchange of feedback.