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WITHOUT RESEARCH NO DEVELOPMENT AND NO PROFESSIONALISATION!
project finally produced a module that may be fruitfully used in training
programs for supervisors and coaches, as well as in their further education.
A next small step was made in the method of (terminological) clarification
as applied in the Grundtvig program, but this did not go far enough. On the
one hand, a lot was learned about the difficulties of comparing the various,
sometimes conflicting approaches to supervision and coaching in the
participating countries, on the other hand, it was only possible to explore
this superficially. The urgent need to dig deeper and find a consistent way of
describing supervisory skills and competences became undeniably obvious.
To make this possible, a further project had to be developed and - in order
to also obtain European funding — presented as an application to Brussels.
Successfully, because in 2012, the LEONARDO ‘ECVision Project’ was selected
by the European Commission to develop a European System of Comparability
and Validation of Supervisory Competences.*
In my view, this project proved to be a very important step for ANSE and for
the entire community of supervisors and coaches.
Two main results are:
« A Glossary to guarantee comparability of terms, definitions and legal
frameworks, and...
« A Competence Framework to guarantee comparability of supervisory
competences and qualifications by describing them in terms of learning
outcomes.
These outcomes should not be seen as ‘the one and only truth’ of supervision
and coaching designs, methods and practices. The idea is to see it as orientation,
as a base for fruitful discussion and for further development. It is, again, a mi¬
nimum consensus on quality. But this time on a decidedly higher level.
The glossary is an attempt to collect all important terms in use within
supervision and coaching. It offers descriptions and definitions, and as such
may be useful for practitioners, but also for organisations and clients assigning,
recommending or undertaking supervision or coaching. The glossary may
moreover be useful as a basic resource of disambiguation to providers of
supervision or coaching training programs. Ultimately, it is expected to be
beneficial for everyone concerned. In addition to being a clarification tool, it is
an initial step towards establishing a professional identity for supervisors and
coaches on the European level.
In the competence framework, supervisory and coaching competences are
described on different levels, covering all activities of supervisors and coaches
3
Michaela Judy — Wolfgang Knopf (eds.), ECVision. Supervision and Coaching in Europe:
Concepts and Competences, Vienna, ANSE, 2015.
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