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

 


Working from Source

by Renewal Associates

Working from Source
By Peter Hawkins, March 2024

In October my new book “Beauty in Leadership and Coaching: and the Transformation of Human Consciousness” will be published by Routledge. In the final chapter I write about how we can work from ‘Source’ rather than from effort.  This will be once again one of the key themes and practices we will address on the Advanced Retreats I run each summer at Barrow Castle, on the outskirts of Bath, surrounded by gardens, woodlands and hills. To book for these click here.

Here is a passage from the final chapter of the book.

We need to learn how to live and work from source, rather than from effort and goal driven will.  On the advanced retreats I run each summer, we carryout collaborative inquiries into the different experiential phenomena of working from effort and working from source.  In pairs I ask one of the pair to adopt the position they are in when working from effort, and for two minutes, to report out to their partner:  “when I work from effort I……..” and to keep discovering new aspects of how this shows up within them.

When both partners have done this, we then invite them to find the physical bodily state they occupy when they work from source, and this time to continually repeat and complete the sentence: “When I work from source I…..”.  I have found that everyone who has taken part has a deep-felt sense of the difference between these two states and knows them from the inside.  Only when these have been deeply accessed, do the pair go on to explore how they can let go of ‘efforting’ and let source flow through their lives more fully.  

I have discovered that when I am working from source, I can work a week of long hours and end the week with more energy than I started it.  It is as if I am using renewable energy, rather than burning up stored fuel.  I am in-tune with my bio-rhythms, rather than working to the clock-time of forced labour.  Since the Industrial Revolution we have created this life versus work split, where we have to use the short time away from work to replenish all the spent energy from being a ‘wage-slave’ throughout the working week.  Even the concepts of ‘work – life balance’, has built into it the notions of work as draining energy and non-work life as replenishing it.

In the chapter on Grace we explored the whole notion of flow. How we can be in flow in our self, our head, heart, and body; our thoughts, feelings and actions.  How we can be in flow with others in our teams and families, our organizations and communities.  How we can be in flow with our work, our art and our craft, and the wider human and more-than-human world, with which we are inextricably entwined.

We are born out of Beauty, sustained by Beauty.  When we awake and become the beauty we love, we return home, to the home we have never left. 

 


How can you lead, support and coach High-value creating teams?

by Renewal Associates

How can you lead, support and coach High-value creating teams?

Dr. Catherine Carr, MCEC, PCC, RCC and I are very excited to launch our new program, that takes more than twenty years of work developing Systemic Team Coaching around the world and translates it into an on-line program not only for coaches, but for team leaders, HR business partners, consultants and everyone who needs to develop effective teamwork directly as a team leader/member or indirectly through those they coach.
This can be the beginning of the journey to become a professional Systemic Team Coach; or it can be a stand alone training to help you coach individual team leaders and team members, or make a difference to the teams you lead or as a team member.
Supported by a great global faculty from right around the world including
Sue Coyne PCC, Inge Simons, MCC, Pau Lim, Michael Cooper, Ingela Camba Ludlow, Fenneke Tjallingii-Brocken, MSc., PCC, CPCC, Monica Callon, Jonathan Sibley, Axel Klimek, Bob Gibbon, Christophe Mikolajczak, Daiana Stoicescu, Coach Trainer, MCC by ICF 🚀, Dirk Nieuwoudt, Dumi Magadlela PhD PCC, Harriet Dodd PCC, Julie Stockton, Karen Yanqun Wu, Kathryn Adams, Lesley Garrick, Lilia Dicu, Lucy Shenouda MCC, ACTC, ESIA, Michael Cooper, Nathalie Lerotić Pavlik MSc, GMBPsS, Pamela Maguire, Susan Douglas, Ph.D., ACTC, PCC, ESIA, Tjessica Stegenga 🌎 and many others

Join us for a FREE 90 minute Masterclass when we launch our new program!

Programs running on 5 dates between 26th February and 11th March

Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to learn from the best! Secure your free seat here: https://www.coaching.com/team-development/


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13 NEW CHRISTMAS CRACKERS FOR SYSTEMIC TEAM COACHES

by Renewal Associates

Introduction

This is the seventh year that I am sending out a range of Systemic Team Coaching Christmas Crackers to the wide and growing global community of team coaches around the world.  Each year I take one-line aphorisms that I have found myself using on my various trainings and make a short collection.  Like mottos and jokes in Christmas Crackers, they are there to both amuse and help us see the world differently.  I hope you enjoy them.  Previous years aphorisms are published in the 4th Edition of “Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership” (2021) published by Kogan Page.

  1. We need to coach the connections, not the person
    For coaching to move beyond very expensive personal development for the already highly privileged, we need to coach the connections: the connections between the leader and their team; between the team and the team of teams; between the organization and all the stakeholders; between the various functions and between the organizational issues.
  2. Turn blame into need and complaint into request
    The biggest loss of energy and time in team meetings comes from spending time on polluting BMWs. This stands for Blame, Moan and Whine. We can make a big difference by turning every blame or complaint about the present or past into a clear request about the future.  See also my blog on “Grumble to gratitude”.

  3. Discover the extra team member beyond the persons in the room; she is called synergy
    Many teams tell me how pressured and over-worked they are. To one leadership team of 6 who expressed this, I said, ‘You are not making use of the 7th member of the team.’ They asked who the seventh member was.  I said, “she is called synergy.”

  4. Team coaching requires a team of team coaches
    To work systemically it is often more effective to co-coach a team, with two systemic team coaches.  In that case, it is essential for the co-coaches to turn up as a team, one that is more than the sum of its parts and not as a relay-race.

  5. The team is not your client but your team coaching partner
    When team coaching, the team is our coaching partner, and the client is all their stakeholders that the team serves and co-creates value for.

  6. An effective team takes responsibility for each other’s performance, learning and well-being
    I learnt this from my colleague David Clutterbuck, which I think captures very well the movement from individual accountability to collective mutual accountability.

  7. Is your inner team more than the sum of its parts?
    I wrote a blog on this earlier in the year. We all play many roles in life and how we work as a team makes a big difference to both the quality of our lives and the positive difference we can make in the world.  Do your internal team members collaborate or compete with each other? Is your inner team more than the sum of it’s parts 

  8. A purpose without a plan is a dream
    We discover our purpose by discovering what we can uniquely do that our stakeholder’s world of tomorrow needs, if we do not turn this purpose into a plan, it remains a dream, and we are surrounded by unmet needs.

  9. When we are in the spotlight, only the ones behind us can see our shadow
    Carl Jung said that the greater the light, the darker the shadow. This is particularly true for nearly all strong and charismatic leaders.  We all need help from those who are behind us and in our shadow: our team members, followers, our children and our partners.

  10. When the rubber hits the road, the road nearly always wins
    Reality is stronger than the best developed strategies and plans of any individual or group.  As one of my teachers said, “Those who do battle with the reality of what is, never win.” So, we need to welcome reality as our teacher and partner.

  11. To work from source is to realise that the source is not only inside you nor only outside you.
    When our work is in flow and we are working from source, we are not doing the work by ourselves, but in partnership with the world beyond us when the inner and outer merge.

  12. We are not our emotions but the space in which they happen
    The more we can witness our own emotions without identifying with them, the greater our ability to witness the emotions of others with compassionate empathy, without becoming collusive or reactive.

  13. “Beauty is love made sensate.”
    Let me end with this wonderful quote from my friend and teacher Elias Amidon, as it captures in five words much of what I am writing about in my book which is to be published by Routledge in 2024: “Beauty in Leadership and Coaching: and the transformation of human consciousness.”

Happy Christmas, Hanukah, Solstice, Dōngzhì Festival, Yuletide, Saturnalia, or December holidays to all my friends, colleagues, and Blog followers everywhere.

There will be a new program with www.coaching.com.  called Team Development Essentials and Practitioner program in 2024.

I will also be running a number of Systemic Team Coaching® Practitioner Certificate 3-day intensives in 2024.
Houston, Texas, USA January 22-24  
Singapore, March 13-15
Paris, France, April 24-26
Milan, Italy, May 15-17
Prague, Czech Republic November 4-6.   For more information visit the website

In addition, I will be holding Advanced Retreats for Coaches and Team Coaches during June and September in Barrow Castle, Bath UK, and an on-line programme on Supervising Team Coaching and Transformational Coaching.
For more information visit: Advanced Retreats

Peter Hawkins
21 December 2023
©Renewal Associates 2023


Virtual North America Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate Program 17-20 April 2023

by Renewal Associates

Virtual North American Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate Program  17-20 April 2023

Have you been wondering how to become an ICF accredited Team Coach?
 
Join our North America Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate program, which has been delivered globally for over 13 years, for an opportunity to experientially learn how to be a Systemic Team Coach with a small group of experienced coaches.
 
Facilitated by Dr Hilary Lines and Dr Catherine Carr, two preeminent Systemic Team Coaches and Thought Leaders within the field.

Program sessions are timed to suit multiple time zones (08:00 – 12:00 PT / 11:00 – 15:00 ET)

Full details on the Virtual North America Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate Program and how to apply STC CERTIFICATE© NORTH AMERICA


The next frontier for Coaching Supervision and Team Coaching

by Renewal Associates

In the last twenty years we have witnessed the exciting spread of coaching supervision around the world.  Also for the last ten years the fastest growing aspect of coaching has been team coaching and systemic team coaching.   Now we are seeing a new challenging frontier for both.  Although there are now many trained coach supervisors and a growing number of trained team coaches there is a global shortage of trained and experienced team coach supervisors. The Global Team Coaching Institute, which I lead in partnership with my colleague David Clutterbuck and WBECS have developed a global list of accredited team coach supervisors.  But more are needed, people who are trained experienced team coaches and trained coach supervisors with specific training in how to supervise systemic team coaching.

To meet this need Renewal Associates are providing a specialised advanced virtual 3 day programme for experienced team coaches/experienced coach supervisors who want to develop their capacity in supervising systemic team coaching.

This will be lead by Professor Peter Hawkins and Dr Catherine Carr, both of whom are global thought leaders and writers in both systemic team coaching and coaching supervision.  This programme is on 15th – 18th June, with timings being arranged to accommodate different time zones.  Those interested in applying for the few remaining spaces should complete the application form using the link here.

Peter Hawkins will also be running the annual Advanced Retreat at Barrow Castle 1st -3rd September, in the countryside on the edge of Bath, for those experienced coaches, team coaches and consultants who want to deepen what supports and resources their work  and discover ways of partnering with the wider ecology in their practice. For further information and an application form click here.

 Both programmes are designed to support practitioners growing their inner capacity and growing their circle of influence and impact.


Practioner in Team Coaching certificate programme

by Renewal Associates

Introducing the Practitioner in Team Coaching certification programme from the Global Team Coaching Institute in collaboration with WBECS.

Prof David Clutterbuck and myself have together created this exciting learning opportunity for qualified team coaches wanting to:
· Transition from a 1-2-1 coach to coaching the whole team
· Expand into the latest & fastest growing area of coaching
· Confidently handle all team coaching assignments

If you are interested in finding out more about my ‘Systemic Team Coaching’ approach or Prof David Clutterbuck’s ‘Complex Adaptive Systems (PERILL) Model’ of team coaching then go to https://lnkd.in/eXXgV99