COACHING AT WORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE, LONDON, 1 JULY 2015

By Rachel Ellison

Instead of navel gazing, in coach-speak, about supervision being a good thing that we all supposedly do and enjoy, Tatiana Bachkirova’s research expressed the unsayable: resenting supervision; not wanting it, not doing it. In her refreshing and congruent workshop on ‘100 reasons to dislike supervision’, Bachkirova, reader in coaching psychology at Oxford Brookes University, collected multiple views from coaches who dislike...