Elevate your impact and credibility in coaching — become a Certified Coaching Supervisor

This science-informed supervision training pathway draws on the principles of positive psychology and coaching psychology to help you supervise coaches in ways that build capability, confidence, and professional resilience.

Through two progressive certification levels, you’ll learn how to work with strengths, reflective inquiry, and ethical complexity, so supervision becomes a space for growth rather than correction.

As coaches mature in their practice, many begin to sense a shift. You might recognize that:

• You want to expand your impact in a sustainable way

• You want to support others at a deeper, more reflective level

• You’re drawn to approaches that are evidence-based and psychologically grounded

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN

• A 60-hour Coaching Supervision Certification Pathway, delivered across two progressive 30-hour certifications
• Full access to ten on-demand learning modules in each certifiaction program covering psychologically-informed tools, frameworks and techniques for coaching supervision
• 2 x 30 hours of ICF Continuing Coach Education Units in each course (19 Core Competencies + 11 Resource Development)
• 2 x 30 hours of approved CPD hours with the Association for Coaching
• 2 x 30 Recertification points with the Association for Talent Development
• Two formal AoCP Certifications in Coaching Supervision (at Professional-level and Advanced-level), with digital badges recognizing your achievement

Foundations and Functions of Coaching Supervision
Understand the purpose, scope, and value of supervision. Explore the developmental, qualitative, and resourcing functions that underpin ethical supervision practice.

Ethical Contracting and the Supervision Alliance
Establish clear supervision contracts and psychologically safe alliances. Learn how ethics, values, and boundaries shape effective supervision relationships.

The Supervisor’s Mindset and Reflective Presence
Develop self-awareness, reflexivity, and mindful presence. Strengthen your ability to stay attuned, grounded, and responsive in supervision.

Supervision for Learning and Development
Use strengths-based and solution-focused approaches to support reflective learning, growth, and professional capability in supervisees.

Relational Presence in Supervision
Work skillfully with power, difference, and relational dynamics. Build trust while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.

Safeguarding Quality and Ethical Practice
Support ethical decision-making and quality standards through reflective inquiry and appreciative challenge.

The Self as Instrument in Supervision
Develop awareness of how intuition, emotion, and embodied responses inform supervision, while maintaining professionalism and balance.

Wellbeing, Resilience, and Psychological Resources
Explore how supervision supports resilience, wellbeing, and sustainability for both supervisor and supervisee.

Systemic Awareness in Supervision
Broaden perspective using systemic and contextual lenses, including organisational, cultural, and relational influences.

Integration and Ongoing Development
Consolidate learning, reflect on your supervision practice, and identify priorities for continued professional development.

Every module builds on the last, guiding you from foundational theory to confident and competent coaching supervision.

The LEARN Mindset for Advanced Supervision
Adopt an advanced supervision mindset grounded in curiosity, psychological flexibility, and reflective experimentation, using the LEARN framework to guide supervision conversations.

Purpose, Hope, and Direction in Supervision
Explore how purpose and meaning shape effective supervision. Use hope-based approaches to support motivation, ethical goal-setting, and professional direction.

Exploring Perspectives and Cognitive Flexibility
Develop multi-perspective awareness through psychologically informed inquiry. Learn to work with complexity, context, and alternative viewpoints in supervision.

Solution-Focused and Appreciative Dialogue
Refine your supervision conversations through strengths-based and solution-focused questioning that shifts reflection from evaluation to exploration.

Strengths, Success, and Self-Efficacy
Support supervisees to recognize capability, build confidence, and strengthen professional self-efficacy through psychologically informed feedback.

Confidence in Context
Work with confidence and sensitivity in complex supervision contexts, integrating strengths-based approaches with systemic and relational awareness.

Reviewing Pathways and Experimentation
Support supervisees to design, test, and review learning pathways using reflective experiments that encourage growth and adaptability.

From Insight to Action
Translate reflective insight into meaningful changes in practice, supporting supervisees to connect learning with real-world supervision outcomes.

Noticing Progress and Sustaining Growth
Strengthen reflective capacity by noticing progress over time, supporting resilience, motivation, and sustained professional development.

Evolving Supervision Practice
Integrate learning across both stages, articulate your supervision philosophy, and plan your ongoing development as an advanced, psychologically informed coaching supervisor.

Each module builds progressively, supporting your transition from capable supervisor to advanced supervision practice grounded in psychological insight.