Lifting the Lid on Coaching Supervision

By Clare Norman & Steve RidgleyEducation Self-Improvement

Lifting the Lid on Coaching Supervision episodes

January 20 Lifting The Lid - Episode 140 - The final episode - the one where we mark the ending and celebrate success
The final episode - the one where we mark the ending and celebrate success

Clare and Steve bring the podcast to a close, celebrating the journey, the friendship, the learning, the relationship - and with true parallel process, notice how these are all elements of the coach/client and coach/supervision relationship.

The experience had been deeply reflective for both Clare and Steve and somewhat unexpectedly, they have gained so much personally from the explorations they have shared. They exchange what they are taking with them from the five years and what opportunity an ending offers.

Go well listeners and a great big 'thank you!' from us both.
48 min
December 16, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 139 - The full circle episode - the one where we reminisce
In today’s episode, Steve and Clare reflect on the 5+ years that they have been recording together. How time flies when you are learning together!

We reminisce about the original hopes and intentions - around encouraging more coaches to invest in supervision. We wonder at the supervision that we have offered each other, out loud with you listening in, via these conversations. We also look into our crystal ball to explore a little of what might be coming in the future of supervision and coaching, much of which is already happening!

We hope that you have been changed by listening in, as we feel changed by recording.
34 min
November 18, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 138 - Is Supervision just lazy coaching? - The one with the plethorists
Prompted by a great question Clare was asked, we explore whether supervision, because it allows for advice giving, is in fact just lazy coaching?

We explore the challenges, the focus, the facilitation, the timeframes, the co-learning, the breadth and plethora of topics as we lift the lid a touch further on what supervision can be.
38 min
October 21, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 137 - What we take to supervision - The one where themes become the theme
This podcast sometimes looks at what has presented itself at Clare and Steve's supervision 1-1s and groups.

In this episode, they step into their own vulnerability to share the themes they are taking to their own supervision of their coaching and supervision.

Those themes? Landscapes and love, confidence and complacency, the risks and the rewards.
40 min
September 16, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 136 - Perspective - The one where the artist knows
Clare and Steve explore how shifting our perspective can change how we show up and how we coach. Maybe it's through whose eyes we are seeing the problem, maybe it's where we're looking from, when we're looking, how our energy and state influence our perspective, or maybe something else?

Reviewing and reflecting on the dimensions of our perspective on a situation can be an invaluable reflection and lead to unexpected shifts in our work. Maybe share your sense of your perspective on some aspect of your work next time you go to supervision?
43 min
August 19, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 135 - Client epiphany - The one where five minutes matters
What if your client comes alive with only 5 minutes of the session to go? How does that impact you, the coach, and what flexibility should we have for our clients' needs? Where does contracting come in and are we too focused on the transactional elements of that and on our needs?

Could we pay more attention to our client's emotional and psychological needs and be contracting more on endings and on the spaces between coaching sessions?
38 min
July 15, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 134 - Collective responsibility in the group - The one about asking for what you need
In this podcast, you will hear Clare and Steve discussing group supervision in particular, and how to recontract with the group for what you need. This is not just about what you need from the supervisor, but what you need and want from the group. In self-led supervision (as Louise Shepperd would call it, you have a collective responsibility as a group to define your boundaries, limits, preferences and deal-breakers (Terri Cole).

This is for all to decide, and must not bypass group discussion by relying on the supervisor to “put things right”. How do you show up in groups? Are you there for yourself alone, or do you see yourself having collective responsibility to the group’s learning?
40 min
June 17, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 133 - Duty of Care - The one with the Peacock's Tail
If you have considered supervision, but not yet taken the plunge, one core reason you might, is duty of care. When might the duty of care to your client, the client's wider system - eg their family or team, or duty of care for yourself, challenge your coaching? Would you even spot it? Is supervision itself an act of duty of care to self?

Coaching can be a lonely business, and supervision can support you in that. Steve and Clare also touch on where ethics, boundaries and duty of care meet. Steve introduces the concept of the Peacock's Tail, a systemic representation of systems of belonging.
33 min
May 20, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 132 - Wrappers around our work - The one with the sweeties
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.
38 min
April 15, 2025 Lifting The Lid - Episode 131 - Changing world order - the one where we "slough it off"
In this episode, Clare and Steve talk about the impact of economic decisions (whether by our own UK government by the US presidency or elsewhere in the world). This conversation was triggered by a communication from a coaching platform to its coaches, but it became much more wide-ranging, as we talked about ripple effects in all areas of our work. We ask the question “Who tells coaches what we can and cannot do?” and then we meander into other arenas, including a reflection about the confidentiality and data protection of our virtual software platforms and other coach tech.

As they say after potentially triggering TV shows, “If you are affected by the content of this programme, you can get help by…” talking with your supervisor. You do not need to face this alone.

Get in touch if you need to talk:
Clare Norman [email protected]
Steve Ridgley [email protected]
44 min

About Lifting the Lid on Coaching Supervision

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Welcome to this monthly podcast in which Clare Norman and Steve Ridgley ‘lift the lid’ on coaching supervision.

We are both experienced coaches and coach supervisors, passionate about the value…