My Coaching and Coach Supervision style and beliefs; I studied “Integral coaching” at the Centre for Coaching (CFC), Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. The last section of the CFC training is the Professional coaching course, is run over 12 months with four week blocks of intensive study at the Cape Town “Breakwater” campus. It is very intense and is one of the deeper coaching trainings offered in South Africa. The course is accredited by the ICF and New ventures West (USA). This style of coaching is about the whole person, who is complete and able to learn and adapt. It considers the integrated (inner and outer) self and all of its aspects in the larger world of relationships, people and things around us. It suggests that aspects of our self that are not working will often affect many other parts of our existence. The emphasis of the training is to ensure that the coach is a non directive curious listener that follows the client and listens for content and clues to check beliefs and habits, and maybe follow up with other questions. By using probing questions, in an insightful manner, this can help the client to find a new reality, and to get meaning for that new reality though “distinctions” and metaphors. This helps to land the new reality and embed it into the “way of being” for the client. The use of exercises (once off) or practices (repeated exercised) are also used to ensure the congruence of this new way of being. The objective is to establish a self-taught, self-observed, self-monitored, self-corrected new reality, a new way of being that remains behind long after any coaching has been completed. This considerable and involved course also puts a lot of time and effort into recognizing when you, the coach, could be getting in the way, interfering with the client’s process or flow, or directing the outcome, such that as a follower there is very little chance of the coach doing any harm to the client. “Do No Harm” remains a strong guiding principle for all coaching, and this style of coaching very strongly affiliated with this “helping profession” philosophy. The course subscribes to the ICF and New Ventures West code of ethics, standards and principles. From a more personal perspective, maybe I have considered myself to be an intellectual, clever person, and have used my cleverness to manage my world, to direct and deflect, to disarm and empower. In coaching and supervision I have maybe also approached them, historically, as an intellectual challenge, to tick the boxes, do it well and completely. I have a good memory which also allows me to remember things past that echo into the present or reflect and pose questions for the future. Many core connections will show up repeatedly, in different areas, because they are the core or inner motivation and belief system. This affects many aspects of the whole person and it is important to sense and feel these connections. I use humour to keep a lightness and mercurial flow in the sessions. As I embed my trainings with actual clients, I am now fully seeing that coaching and coaching Supervision is not an intellectual exercise, it is a whole person experience, an integrated somatic, emotional, intellectual and spiritual experience. An “integrated whole”, so, while a strong intelect helps to think things through, see possibilities and deeply reflect, it is clear that being emotionally connected and meaning making is probably more important. I am also a very intuitive, spiritual coach and supervisor, who senses and feels with the coachee or supervisee. These connections allow the client or coach to go deeper, quicker. I have been very conscious in the past of going very deep, quickly; indeed I was worried it was “too” quickly. My coaching and supervision circles have helped me take accountability for the “deep and quickly” and stay with the intensity in a safe environment and in a safe way, and not to lose the moment or deflect or shy away. They have also helped me see how this is a gift, not an intrusion, and how if the coachee or supervisee does not want to go there, they won’t. Many references say how emotional connection allows deeper learning and internalisation. “I feel therefore I learn”. The “integrated whole” is where I allow my intuition and spiritualty to partner with the coach or client and go with the connected flow. This is my sense of who I am and what I have to contribute. I have also seen that in much coaching and supervision any shift is good, so not to worry about good and bad, but to focus upon good and better