Just like Heineken, the International Centre of Coaching Supervision (ICCS) reaches parts of the world other supervision schools cannot reach! ICCS has proven its global approach a success especially with coaches joining from across the world, some supported by the school’s bursary programme.
Due to cost and location, accessing supervision training can be prohibitively expensive and logistically challenging. With the majority of accredited supervision schools situated and delivered physically in the UK, a profession that should be international has often been very anglocentric.
The ICCS is challenging this limitation and exclusivity by offering a complete virtual learning experience for coaches looking into expand their careers to become supervisors. The ICCS believe that coaching supervision should be accessible and practised worldwide to support coaches wherever they are.
The approach is working! ICCS have been getting enrolments from a diverse range of participants including coaches from the US, Europe, Turkey, Indonesia, Kenya and, most recently, Reunion Island, a small island set in the Indian Ocean.
Nick Bolton, Founder and CEO of ICCS was particularly excited by the enrolment from Reunion Island as he felt it showed that ICCS was truly reaching parts of the world other schools just don’t reach.
“This is a pivotal moment to reflect on our increasing reach as it’s a true privilege to be able to serve coaches in so many parts parts of the world.” he said.
He was also deeply touched by a conversation he had with a coach who joined ICCS from Kenya and who shared that there was only one coaching supervisor in the whole of east Africa and that she was excited to become the second! Bolton recalls how it brought home the stark reality of the current exclusivity of the supervision profession and how important it feels to make it available to all coaches.
The ICCS recognises that some countries have substantially lower average incomes than others. Therefore, ICCS introduced a bursary scheme that covers 25% of the course fees for participants from places where access to this education is financially challenging.
“I’m proud that our international bursary is helping highly-experienced coaches from countries with lower average incomes access training that has often been the preserve of a small group of coaches. We’re committed to making coaching supervision a genuinely worldwide phenomenon and democratising access to it both as a profession and a form of professional development.” said Bolton.
Coaches looking to step up their career by becoming supervisors can find out more about Coaching Supervision through ICCS’ coaching supervision training page.