Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring Supervision

Certificate and Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring Supervision (NZQA) Level 6

Course Specific Information:
Course Aims: The aim is to develop skills and attend to the continuing professional development of another coach/mentor as an effective and ethical practitioner. It is also to meet the increasing requirement from coaches for a supervisory relationship and from organisations to ensure quality and consistency in coaching and mentoring standards.
 
Course Outcome Statement:  Upon the completion of the course a student will have developed skills so that they can engage in a supervisory relationship so that another coach or mentor becomes an ethical and safe practititoner.      
 
Course Structure: The course is made up of 8 compulsory modules. The course shall be completed in numerical order beginning with Module 1 proceeding in order through till Module 8. 
 
   
Students may exit at the completion of Module Four with a Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring Supervision (60 Credits ? Level 6)

Course Descriptors
Module One: The Coaching/Mentoring Supervision Relationship
This module introduces the programme and gives an overview introduction to supervision and coaching/mentoring supervision as a relationship, a developmental process and a learning environment. Participants will also address their own shadows, issues of power and personal motivations alongside blocks to supervision.
 
Module Two: Techniques, Models and Approaches to Supervision
Participants will gain a practical understanding of the theory behind various coaching and supervision models. This module will focus on a minimum of four different models of supervision.           
 
Module Three: Evolving Coaching Supervision practice
This module will enable participants to critically reflect upon culturally appropriate and diverse coaching and mentoring in Aotearoa New Zealand highlighting key functions in supervision. Participants will also develop an awareness of the ethical and legal responsibilities for coaches and mentors. 
 
Module Four:  Supervision Practicum
This module provides students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills from previous modules into their professional practice as a supervisor of coaches and mentors. 

 
Module Five: The Hidden Dynamics of Behaviour and Relationship in Mentoring and Coaching.
This module explores the subtle behaviours that occur in relationships, including relational dynamics, resistance, emotional behaviours and the S.A.C.R.E.D®. space in coaching and mentoring that allows connectedness and discovery. 
 
Module Six :  Supervision in Organisational and Business Contexts
This module will investigate the supervision of groups, teams and peers within an organisation, and address issues of resistance, and the advocacy of good supervisory practice of coaches and mentors. This module will also give understanding of managing the multiple roles in relationships within organisations and wider society. Students will also make sense of integrating learning goals and learning styles.
 
Module Seven:  Supervision, Coaching and Mentoring ? The Advanced Practice.
Students can gain advanced practice in their supervisory skills and learn an advanced supervision model that brings greater authenticity to the professional supervisor in their work. This module will also address issues of counter-transference, and transference, issues of conflict, and appropriate endings in supervision.
 
Module Eight: Research Project.
This module enables a student to focus their research on a particular area of interest in the area of supervision and make a contribution to the professional understanding of the practice of supervision in mentoring and coaching.