Coaching Supervision

Coaching Supervision with Elaine Patterson from the Centre of Reflection and Creativity Ltd.

….because in coaching supervision “who you are is how you learn, coach and supervise”…

“Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your creative individuality alone must decide”

Carl Jung

Who am I?

I am a designer, a creative and a published author.

I love looking for the joy, potential and possibility in our stories whilst also embracing our vulnerabilities and shadows to learn creatively from both.

I am a lifelong learner, and I am passionate about how creative reflection and reflective practice can enable us to artfully access our own inner knowing and wisdom to humanize, to energize and to transform ourselves and our work. I am eclectic with a wide range of interests from art, literature, theatre, photography, meditation, Nordic walking, nature and the humanities … ready to be in awe, made curious by, to be inspired by and to learn from whatever life presents.

My favourite places of inspiration are Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture Garden in St Ives in Cornwall; Blackwell Arts and Crafts House over Windermere Lake; and my daughter’s indomitable spirit despite (or in spite) of her disabilities. My favourite book is my O Level text “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The line where Atticus says to Jem and Scout “You never understand a person until you consider things from their point of view…. Until you climb into their skin and walk around in it” has informed my leadership, coaching and supervision practice and how I have wanted to live my life ever since. I admire and I am inspired by anybody who wants to step up

I live in London and the Lake District.

How do I Super-Vise During Coaching Supervision?

Creatively. Compassionately. Courageously. Wholeheartedly. Somatically. Soulfully. Spaciously. Reflectively. Eclectically. Lightly. Gently. Incisively. Generatively. Ethically. Warmly. Professionally.

My books “Reflect to Create! The Dance of Reflection for Creative Leadership, Professional Practice and Supervision” – and its companion journal – along with “Our Humanity@Work – Working with the 7Cs – for 7 Human Capacities for Insight, Learning and Change – A New Lens for Coaching, Coaching Supervision and Executive Reflection” – captures the essence of who I am and how I work.

My latest book “Homecomings ~ 52 Ways Back to Ourselves” with its reflective soliloquies invites us explore what it means to belong and how we can remember to come home to ourselves again and again as a foundational heart-based practice for our times.

I work from a place of generous inquiry and abundant curiosity in service of the uniqueness of each and every client and their unique context. From a place of creativity, abundance and generosity; from an enormous sense of privilege and honour to be able to do the work I love to do. Of holding and hosting the work and the conversation with ethical integrity. Of accepting, embracing and celebrating our vulnerabilities and our shared humanity; what it means to be human and what it means to work with others in our busy world. Of attending to how we can unlock our unique gifts and our unique contribution to thrive and flourish in our lives and work.

I see Supervision as our feng shui. For me Super-vision is a spacious place where we learn at the feet of our own experience of the world in order to become more and more alive, awake, creative and present in both our being and our doing in the dance of our life and our work. To know our tools and techniques and to also know to put them aside when we meet the miracle of another human being.

We are all visitors to this time, this place.

We are just passing through.

Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…. and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Proverb.

To find out more or to book a call for either 1:1 or small group supervision please email me at Elaine@reflect2create.com