The Ashridge Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Coaching & O.D. Supervision* (ACOS) is a two year part time programme developed by experienced coaching practitioners who have a combination of supervision, research, psychological and organisation development (O.D.) experience.

This programme offers experienced O.D. consultants and executive coaches an opportunity to be supervised on any aspect of their work, individually and in a group of equally experienced coaches, and to learn how to be a supervisor of other consultants and coaches.

Similar to our philosophy on the Ashridge Masters programmes in Executive Coaching (AMEC) and Organisation Consulting (AMOC) this programme takes a relational perspective, developing participants’ theoretical knowledge of the psychological underpinnings of supervision and their critical evaluation of supervision models and theories.

If you are interested in developing your professional work further by increasing your self-awareness and critically appraise yourself as a supervisor within your professional coaching /consulting practice, this is a programme for you.

You will:

• Develop a theoretical knowledge of the psychological underpinnings and theory of (executive coaching and organisation development) supervision

• Gain theoretical and practical skills in identifying interpersonal client-supervisor/coach/consultant dynamics and in facilitating clients’ understanding of these dynamics and their abilities to change them

• Be able to apply the core skills of supervision

• Be able to practise both ethically and professionally in supervision work

• Develop a rich understanding of reflection and reflectivity as a medium of learning in supervision, as well as strategies to enable supervisees to become more effective reflective practitioners

• Continually develop your professional work as a supervisor by developing the ability to increase self-awareness and to critically appraise within professional supervision practice.