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COACH MENTORING & SUPERVISION

Life Design and Behavioural Change

I have built a career around one thing: designing behavioural change that
actually holds.

"Not change that just looks good in a strategy deck or a session note
— change that shows up in improved performance, presence, clarity
and balance. Long lasting, not just a discussion in the room."

MARTIN COVILL · EXECUTIVE COACH · COACH SUPERVISOR · MENTOR

Creating multi-million-pound
commercial revenue with
senior leaders, directors,
CEOs, founders and
entrepreneurs

25+ YEARS

2,000+ HOURS

Accredited coaching practice
with senior leaders

ACCREDITED COACH

Association for Coaching &
International Coaching
Federation (ICF)

Personally supervised by
Cameron Murdoch, one of the
UK's leading coach supervisors

CERTIFIED SUPERVISOR

As an executive coach, this behavioural change design has helped clients find greater
purpose, inject significant joy into life, extinguish burnout and reach pinnacle balance.

So what does this all mean for you as a coach?

MENTORING

I mentor coaches to build their business

Not generic marketing advice. Sharing decades of experience in brand strategy,
partnerships, and what actually earns trust and commitment from the people you're trying to reach — applied directly to building a coaching practice that's commercially sound and professionally accomplished.

SUPERVISION

I supervise coaches to protect wellbeing and uphold
standards

Supervision isn't coaching for coaches. It's the provision of a protected, reflective
space, built on trust and honest self-examination, where a supervisor holds two roles at once — supporting you and challenging you — so your practice keeps developing and you don't quietly burn out doing work that asks you to hold everyone else's pressure. Too few coaches use it. Too few even know what good supervision looks like. But those who know, really know, and their clients benefit from the practice.

The bigger picture. Coaching doesn't need another six-figure-salary funnel dressed up as
professional development. It needs more of us asking why we chose this profession in the
first place, building practices robust enough to protect our own wellbeing, and holding
ourselves to a standard worth raising the whole industry toward. That's what I want
mentoring and supervision to do — not just for the coaches I work with directly, but for
the standard the profession holds itself to more broadly.

FOR COACHES

Your Governing Bodies Already Answered This

The AC and ICF have both said, in their own words, that supervision is part of the job —
not an extra for coaches who are struggling. I've pulled together exactly what they say, and
what it means for your practice, in one place.

It's a five-minute read. If you'd rather listen, there's a longer conversation on the same
subject too.

A REFLECTION TOOL FOR COACHES

Not Sure if You Need Supervision?

Here are twelve questions to help you find out. No right answers, just honest ones.

As you go through them, give each a score as follows:

1 = Rarely / no

2 = Sometimes

3 = Often / yes

By the end you'll know more about your own practice than you did ten minutes ago.

SECTION 1 — THE QUICK FIX HABIT

  1.   When a client brings you a hard situation, do you notice yourself reaching for a solution before you've heard the whole story?

  2.    Can you remember the last time you sat with a piece of client work without trying to resolve it?

SECTION 2 — WHAT YOU'RE NOT SAYING OUT LOUD

  1.  Is there a client right now you can't quite work out — and haven't told anyone that?

  2.  Have you caught yourself reacting to a client more strongly than the situation seems   to  warrant, and not known why?

  3.  Is there a boundary in your practice that's been quietly slipping?

SECTION 3 — THE WEIGHT OF IT

  1. Do you finish sessions carrying something that isn't yours to carry?

  2. Has anyone else asked how you're doing lately — not your business, you?

  3. If you're honest, are you closer to burnout than you'd admit to a peer?

SECTION 4 — BLIND SPOTS

  1. When did someone last challenge how you work, rather than just support you?

  2. Is there a pattern showing up across several clients that you haven't stopped to look at?

SECTION 5 — THE BIGGER PICTURE

  1. Are there organisational, ethical, or systemic pressures on your clients that you rarely get to think through properly?

  2. Are you making practice decisions alone that you'd value a second, experienced view on?

Results

Add up your scores:

12–19

You are a steady for now — supervision would sharpen your practice.

20–27

Something here has been unsupported for a while and it is recommended that you discuss what'scoming up for you with a Coach Supervisor asap.

28–36

You are carrying more than any coach should carry alone and would benefit for regular Coach Supervision support.

Hope this has been a useful exercise for you.

You already know more about your needs than this scorecard does.

GET IN TOUCH

If something in here landed — or if you're building
a coaching business and want support with that
too — I'd like to help.

My support starts with a call.

© 2026 Mindful Coaching Today Limited · martin@mindfulcoaching.today

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