Coaching is more than just the session itself.  It’s also about the wrap-arounds that create the container – and as is often the case, Steve and Clare find a metaphor that’s useful to their own understanding, that of a boiled sweet (the coaching or supervision itself) with a wrapper that has twisted ends. 

There are so many aspects to creating this wrapper – the contract being one, but also the work of the coaching custodian before coach and thinker even get to talk to each other, then there’s the preparatory work that we might ask the thinker to think through and the analysis afterwards.  And all of this applies to us when we go into supervision too.