Every couple of months or so I meet with Claire Pedrick for a 1:1 supervision session.
It’s a complete gift of an experience where we unpack and untangle the mushed-up things in my head.
I love it.
How I arrive | With a page full of things that have been on my mind - of thoughts, experiences and feelings that have stuck with me, or that I’m stuck on. I’m so keen to get started! I know there’s useful information and insight in there, but it’s hard to see it as everything is tangled up together.
When you’re doing - or being, or experiencing - something for the first time, do you reach for an existing recipe?
I know I do, it’s been my default.
It can feel easier to look to someone else for the ‘right’ answer or approach.
After all, they’ve done the hard work and figured out the solution - surely if it works for them it will work for me?
Especially if it’s a proven formula, or it seems to be working for other people, or it’s simply the way it’s always done.
And yet so often, it hasn’t worked out that way. The results have been a mixed bag.
Feedback is one of my favourite topics to coach around. There’s so much to unpack and explore, and a lot we can reframe in a short amount of time.
While most often we’re working through how to give and receive it, there can also be times when we want more than we’re getting - because how can we improve if we don’t know where we are?
We just need to remember to ask a useful question, so that we get some useful information in response - instead of defaulting to “Could you give me some feedback?”.
