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Invest in yourself alongside your coaching pratice.

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The Importance of Coaching Supervision

Coaching supervision is a professional imperative for any coach who wishes to work in the global coaching market today. Coaching supervision is a consistent, dedicated space for coaches to improve the quality of their coaching, consider their ethical stance, stretch developmentally, and resource themselves in the important work they do every day with their clients.

These reflective writing journals offer coaches access to many of the foundational principles of coaching supervision. This means coaches can continue to develop alongside their coaching practices more practically, consistently, and independently in between coaching supervision sessions.

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Evidence-Based Reflective Writing

For decades, reflective writing has been utilized by world-class coaches to become more self-aware about themselves alongside their coaching practices, ultimately in service to their clients’ outcomes.

Reflective writing is an evidence-based practice. The slow speed of handwriting forces us to consolidate and reword information, which supports us in processing and retaining learning. Through reflective writing, coaches can uncover more than they were aware of before, capture that information, and then use that to grow themselves and their coaching practices.

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Merging Coaching Supervision and Reflective Writing

With over 250 questions and prompts spread across a 6 month period, these reflective writing journals aims to support, challenge, and sustain professional coaches. These journals merge coaching supervision and reflective writing in a way that it can be used one time or again and again throughout a coach’s career. The prompts are a timeless way to resource and develop anyone working as a professional coach.

These reflective writing journals help to elevate the effectiveness of coaches aiming to catalyze more effective change for their clients and the systems they navigate.

What is covered in these reflective writing journals?

These journals have the following themes spread across more than 300 pages:

  • Warm-up questions about your coaching practice

  • Laying the groundwork for reflective writing

  • Your why for being a coach

  • Coaching vision and mission

  • Coaching values

  • Professional identity

  • Coaching clients

  • Coaching rituals and routines

  • General coaching skills

  • More about the process of coaching

  • Ethics - Parts I and II

  • Coaching relationships

  • Emotions (yours and client) - Parts I and II

  • Coaching presence

  • Resiliency in coaching - Parts I and II

  • Coaching tools, techniques, and models

  • The human body

  • Feedback

  • Energy

  • Not knowing

  • Intuition

  • Creativity

  • Deeper inner work

** IMPORTANT NOTE: These journals do not specifically focus on aspects of group coaching or team coaching.

Example journal page:

A worksheet titled 'Week 4: Day 6' with a space for the date and a prompt asking about a recent coaching client, core values, and impacts.
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Invest in yourself.

Invest in your coaching practice.

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