Stage 2: Two sessions (1.5 hours each) or three sessions (1 hour each) of individual supervision from the programme tutors on your supervision that will start after the intensive course.

These sessions will allow participants to receive individualised developmental feedback on their model of coaching supervision in practice.

Stage 3: Assessment for Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision from Oxford Brookes University

The assessment consists of one written assignment: Description and analysis of the candidate’s model of coaching supervision.

Help to Grow Management Programme. A collaboration between HM Government, the Chartered Association of Business Schools, SBC and Oxford Brookes Business School. 

For SMEs, a 12 week programme to build expertise and boost confidence across key areas for senior leaders. 

The programme is 90% funded by the Government and the University has a Business Support fund that is funded in part by contributions from organisations we work with.

This enables us to offer programmes such as Help to Grow at no cost to participants.

However, if you would like to make a contribution so that other small businesses can take part in Business School activities, please make your contribution here.

Stage 2 Supervision is run by one of the tutors and will be optional. It is not a prerequisite to Stage 3 This stage is preparatory for the submission of the assignment in Stage 3. These sessions will allow participants both to reflect on their ongoing supervision practice and to receive individualised feedback on the development of their model of Supervising Groups and Team Coaches.

The assessment consists of one 2000 word written assignment on how your current model of supervision can be adapted to supervision of groups and team coaches and will lead to a Certificate in Supervising Groups and Team Coaches.

The course is intended to help you understand how to work as a coach with people who are diagnosed as neurodivergent or who appear to show traits associated with neurodivergence.  

At the end of the course, you will 

• Understand the typical strengths and difficulties  associated with common neurotypes

• Understand what is important in your coaching work to meet the needs of neurodivergent individuals

• Know what wider support is available 

The course consists of 3 X 3-hour online sessions 1-2 months apart.  This will allow you to reflect on your learning, read around the topic and discuss your learning from one session to the next.  

There will be formal teaching inputs, exercises, case study material and some pre-reading.  A suggested biography will be provided for background reading while you are on the programme. 

The Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision is a unique programme offering:

• a highly collaborative approach resulting in an exceptional quality of personal and professional learning
• a flexible mode of delivery particularly attractive to overseas students
• different options of assessments both in terms of timing and level.

It is designed for experienced coaches with an active coaching practice who already have a postgraduate qualification in Coaching, Psychology, Counselling or equivalent.

The aim of the programme is to provide highly experienced coaches with an opportunity to extend their competences and skills into the area of coaching supervision. 

There are 3 Stages to this programme, optional and to be completed over a 2 year period.

Supervising Groups and Team Coaches is a programme designed to enhance your learning and development as a coaching supervisor. It responds to the growing demands of the coaching field to offer supervision to groups and team coaches by appropriately qualified coaching supervisors.

This is an advanced programme which builds on the previous qualifications in coaching supervision, e.g. Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision at Oxford Brookes University. 

The programme can be taken face-to-face in Oxford (3 days). It will start with one month's preparation period with a learning buddy and requires participants to have some experience of coaching a team.