Clare and Steve explore how we as coaches might get stuck in familiar ‘ruts’.

They unpack how supervision might be useful in challenging our thinking. Do we coach similar clients in similar locations, in similar ways? What stops us experimenting? What part does our personal history and consequent alignment to risk taking or familiarity play? Have you tried using familiar tools in unfamiliar contexts - for example using drawing with a telephone client? Have you experimented with a familiar technique, going off piste, and did something better emerge?

When you think about doing something new or unfamiliar, do you begin by asking what might be lost … or what might be gained?

Supervision can help us to flourish and not be held back by learned patterns and old identities.