Transformative Learning: A Journey into Systemic Team Coaching® Supervision

by Renewal Associates

 

In 2021, Peter Hawkins and I launched the Systemic Team Coaching® Supervision Training Program (STC® STP), aiming to provide a transformative learning experience. The program featured Peter’s renowned 10-eyed model, a favourite among supervisors worldwide. To our delight, participants found that the training not only enhanced their systemic team coaching skills but also completed their systemic team coaching training or supervision training in unexpected ways. They elevated their practice and became more reflective and systemic practitioners. 

Many participants went on to pursue full supervision training programs and became Core Faculty in our Global Team Coaching Programs. This unique niche of combining Systemic Team Coaching® experience with supervision training has proven invaluable both in leading trainings and in coaching practice. 

Recently, I had the pleasure of supervising a pair of team coaches who had completed the STC® STP. It was encouraging to see them grasp parallel process, understanding how their dyad’s dynamics mirrored those of the team and organization. The next step for each of them to consciously ‘hold the whole’ system even when they coached different parts. Another takeaway was their surprise at discovering how they could step out of their comfort zones while remaining authentic—being bold yet encouraging, directive in one moment and supportive in another. John Heron’s styles introduced them to a new way of working, allowing for a fuller range of emotional expression in both directive and non-directive approaches. It’s akin to using the entire piano keyboard rather than just the 12 key octave you see in front of you.  

For those not familiar with John Heron’s styles, here they are: 

  1. Prescriptive: This style involves giving specific advice or instructions
  2. Informative: Providing information and facts to the coachee
  3. Confronting: Challenging the coachee’s assumptions or beliefs
  4. Cathartic: Allowing the coachee to express emotions or feelings
  5. Catalytic: Encouraging the coachee to explore new perspectives or ideas
  6. Supportive: Providing emotional support and encouragement.

 

Heron’s model underscores that we need to bring the fullness of who we are to support the full potential of who the team can be.  

A couple of questions for consideration: 

  • How do you match for rapport and mismatch for change, at the right moment, with the right skill?  
  • Are there any styles that you find challenging to utilize, or do you prefer certain styles over others? 

Our Systemic Team Coaching® Supervision Training Program has not only enhanced participants’ supervision skills but has also transformed their approach to team coaching. It’s gratifying to see our graduates apply their learnings in diverse settings, becoming more reflective, systemic, confident, and fully capable in their practice.  

 

Dr Catherine Carr, June 2024

 


Love your work more in 2024

by Renewal Associates

My first Sufi spiritual teacher always said – “You can always love more.”  By this he meant more in terms of depth and breadth.

What would you need to do, to love your work more in 2024?  For too long we have talked about work -life balance in ways that portray work as a burden we then have to recover from.  In contrast I aim to leave each week of work more energised, alive and creative than when the week began.

So, what have I discovered enables this to happen?

  1. Discover the deeper purpose in your work. Work out who and what your work serves, for whom your work creates value and benefit. Love what you do and love those who benefit from it.
  2. Being in love with learning. Every person and team I coach and every person I train and/or supervise, I see as my next teacher. I have made a commitment that if I ever teach a course or workshop and do not: a) learn something new; b) teach something new; and c) upgrade the program, it will be the last time I teach that course.
  3. Teach what you are learning. I believe that we do not learn by being taught, only when we turn what we have read or heard into our own enacted practice. Also, that we learn most by teaching what we are learning to others, as then we need to be clear in understanding the learning and have to embody it.
  4. Always be curious. Be fascinated by everyone you meet; they all have an interesting story to tell.  Also be curious about new places, their history and culture; new subjects and ways of working different to yours.
  5. Surround yourself with great colleagues and partners. When I was in my mid-twenties and running a therapeutic community, I realised that my boss could not supervise my work, so I formed a peer supervision group and recruited people from many different organizations. My learning and love of the work quickly multiplied. Create a group of great colleagues, compatriots with a shared purpose.  Help those already in your team, by discovering their passion and helping them to develop it more fully at work.
  6. Treat every difficult person and situation that you encounter as a ‘generous lesson life has sent you.” Our most difficult clients, colleagues, bosses or teams are potentially best teachers, so rather than getting frustrated by them, ask yourself what they need you to learn.
  7. Work from source rather than from effort. Each summer I run advanced retreats at Barrow Castle near Bath UK and we explore how to work from source and renewable energy, rather than ego effort and energy that is not renewable. This entails letting go of believing it is you doing the work, and having to perform and get it right, and realise you are always working in partnership and just a channel for the work happening.
  8. Create teams that are synergistic and are more than the sum of their parts. Teams that enjoy being together, but even more love what they are collectively and collaboratively achieving together for the benefit of those they serve. Teams that have a collective purpose, remembering it is the purpose that creates the team, not the team members who create the purpose.

 I invite you to think of three easy ways you could love your work more in 2024.

I will be starting the year by teaching a Systemic Team Coaching 3-day training in Houston USA 22-24th January 2024, assisted by Steliana van de Rijt-Economu and meeting up with as many of our North American alumni who can join us on the evening of the 23rd January. I will love learning from each new trainee and how our alumni are taking the work into new worlds.  If you would love to learn with me visit https://www.renewalassociates.co.uk/stc/stc-certificate-houston/


The world’s first Systemic Team Coaching® Global Senior Practitioner Program: claim your Early Bird 20% discount

by Renewal Associates

The world’s first Systemic Team Coaching® Global Senior Practitioner Program: claim your Early Bird 20% discount

 

Do you want to develop your range and agility in systemic team coaching thinking, doing and being?

Would you like to be a part of an amazing cohort of team coaches who are supported to double their impact in the world?

Do you want to build your capacity to engage with organizations and complex systems ?

Are you seeking to enable change, challenge and transformation at individual/team/team of teams/organizational and ecosystem levels?  

 

We are very pleased to announce that the much anticipated First Global Senior Practitioner in Systemic Team Coaching® program is now open to applications. Starting on 17th of April 2023 with a saving of US$1,000 if you apply before 1st March.

Full details on the Senior Practitioner Program and how to apply here   https://www.coaching.com/programs/gtci/sr-practitioner/brochure/

The Senior Practitioner Program will be taught by some of the most experienced Systemic Team Coaches from around the world with live engagement from international CEOs and is limited to only 240 spaces, to ensure the deepest level of learning.

We will also be discussing the details in a complimentary webinar live with myself and Colm Murphy on 20th February on ‘How to engage and partner with your clients on the team coaching journey.’ You can join by registering here:

Register for the complimentary 1-hour webinar at 5am ET on 20 Feb 2023 https://coaching.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0ScJXGv_TTyk_QzdS_FR3g

Register for the complimentary 1-hour webinar at 11am ET on February 20, 2023 https://coaching.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hc3pq0raSgiyA6geJFN93A

Contact Details GTCI@renewalassociates.co.uk 

 

You’ll acquire crucial skills for advanced Systemic Team Coaching® in the modern business world, such as:

  • Coaching a transformational shift
  • Seeing and acting systemically
  • Helping teams develop partnerships beyond their organization
  • Coaching teams of teams and develop an integrated team coaching culture
  • Addressing complex organizational challenges
  • Developing the self-coaching team
  • Learning to coach across the boundaries
  • Coaching the “team of teams”; that is more than the sum of the teams and developing an integrated teaming culture right across an enterprise.
  • Experiencing complex organizational challenges through live sessions with international CEOs
  • Creating compelling ways to partner in meeting these challenges.

You will develop your range and agility in Systemic Team Coaching® thinking, doing and being in order to deepen and strengthen your capacity to engage with your current teams and then take your work to the next level by building your team coaching out across organizations and complex systems. In doing so, you will enable change, challenge and transformation at individual, team, team of teams, organizational and ecosystem levels.

You will learn how to grow your business further by delivering team coaching engagements, over several years in the same organization, to a number of teams while also coaching the connections between these teams, and between the teams and their stakeholders.

 


A unique opportunity to join Peter Hawkins 3 day Virtual Systemic Team Coaching Course 15th-17th Dec 2021

by Peter Hawkins

AoEC
Systemic Team Coaching Course
15th – 17th Dec 2021
Virtual

(replaces the face to face event in London)

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SYSTEMIC TEAM COACHING BROCHURE

Systemic team coaching drives powerful change at individual, team and organisational level. This 3-day experiential programme explores how to coach teams to consider both their internal dynamics and external stakeholders working with the connections and influences within and outside the team. Examining both internal and external aspects, the programme provides a valuable way of supporting teams to improve their productivity, performance and realise their full potential.

Those completing the Certificate/Foundation programme will be awarded the Academy of Executive Coaching Certificate in Systemic Team Coaching and which carries ICF credits: 19 CCEUs: 3 Resource Development & 16 Core Competency.

The Systemic Team Coaching Certificate includes training in the unique Team Connect 360 diagnostic, through which you’ll be licensed to use this powerful online 360 tool with your own clients – only Certificate participants are able to do this.