The paper presents experience of case-base supervision group for business, life-, and executive coaches in Moscow, Russia.

1. Coaching Supervision
Experience from Moscow, Russia
Mikhail Klarin, PhD, BCC
2014
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In Emerging Professional Environment

2. Coaching Market Is Fresh
• Coaching is new as a concept and practice
• Coaching is mixed with training, consulting,
advising, and mentoring
• Market is flooded with all sorts of coaches &
coaching
• E.g., astrological coaching, sex coaching, info
coaching... (You name it)
• The coaching profession is at emerging stage
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3. Coaching Supervision Market:
Nonexistent
• Use of coaching supervision is limited to
the training process in coaching schools
• No request for supervision from
customers
• Low demand, no supply for coaching
supervision
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4. Why Coaching Supervision
Workshop?
• An enthusiastic attempt to introduce
quality approach to professional
development
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5. Moscow Coaching Supervision
Workshop
• Founded as a regular professional event
• Run monthly from August 2011
• Open group, 8-12 people
• Over 25 coaching cases in 3 years
• Confidentiality, ICF Code of Ethics
• Minutes/protocols
• Confidential, for group participants only
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6. Typical Themes /Categories
• Coaching Boundaries
• Coach’s Own State/Behavior
• Organizational Issues
• Relationships With Client
• Transference issues
• Counter-transference issues
• Parallel Processes
• Company Policy: Loaded Situations
• …….
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7. Theme: Coaching
Boundaries
• Is the case for coaching or rather for…
• therapy?
• counseling?
• advising?
• training?
• …….
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8. Theme: Coach’s Adequacy
• Is my method OK for this case?
• Is what I am doing really coaching
• Am I OK for this client?
• ………
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9. Theme: Organizational
Issues
• What do I do when my client’s
development starts conflicting the
framework set by the Company?
• How do I get out of the organizational
political traps?
• How do I avoid the company’s political
traps
• ………
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10. Theme: Relationships With
Client /Transference issues
What do I do when…
• my client insists on getting advice from me?
• the client looks at me as a young lady nice to
talk with?
• the client says: ‘I don’t want to discuss any
goals. We just talk…’
• ………
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11. Theme: Relationships With Client /
Counter-Transference Issues
What do I do now
• that my client stopped progressing, and I
see that he needs my support?
• when my client is progressing so fast I
realize she does not really need me?
• when I feel I hate the client’s company?..’
• ………
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12. Theme: Parallel Processes
• My client’s conflict seems a carbon copy
of my own recent situation when I left my
boss and my job
• I am thinking of parting with my partner.
Now here comes this lady top manager
who turns out to be in the middle of the
same situation!..
• ………
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13. Theme: Politically Loaded
Situations
• My client’s is a big person; his situation is
about a heavily charged public issue
• Hard for me to stay neutral
• My client is a He-Who-Must-Not-Be-
Named
• I realize that under the circumstances our work
may become somewhat risky…
• ………
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14. New Point Of Interest: Non-
Coaching Supervision
• Supervision for management consultants
• Supervision for personal advisors
• Supervision for personal assisstants
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