Supporting those who support others: the online program for supervising coaches and practitioners, which also teaches you to make your craft teachable.
Price subject to a pathway adjusted following the diagnostic interview.
By the end of this program, you no longer just conduct your own helping engagements: you work on other people's practice. You know how to open a space where a coach, a therapist, or an experienced practitioner dares to look at their blind spots, name what's tripping them up, and leave more lucid. You hold a safe frame, in individual sessions as well as in supervision groups, and you draw on several readings of the same situation without ever substituting yourself for the person you're supervising.
You also become a training designer: able to model your own experience in order to transmit it, to design situations that help others grow, and to raise the level of an entire community of practitioners. This is the most demanding register of the helping professions - the one you turn to once you already have a mature practice and the desire to put it at the service of others.
An established practice in professional helping relationships (coaching, therapy, mentoring, training, or equivalent) and enough maturity to work on someone else's practice. The program is open to advanced Synodeo graduates as well as experienced professionals from elsewhere - in every case, admission is confirmed by the positioning assessment, which verifies that you have the foundation needed to approach this level. No academic barrier: what counts is experience and stance.
Everything starts with what founds supervision: a distinct register, too often confused with evaluation, consulting, coaching, or mentoring. You learn to ground it in a solid ethical framework and an assumed meta-position, you discover the major models that structure the discipline, and you consciously choose the frame from which you want to intervene.
How is a supervision arrangement contracted, one-on-one or within a tripartite relationship where an institution is a stakeholder? How do you turn a vague request into working objectives, and hold confidentiality when interests diverge? You lay the foundations on which everything else will rest.
The heart of the craft. You learn to open a reflective space, to explore a situation from several angles through a multi-level reading, and to spot what replays itself in the relationship itself - those resonances and parallel processes that, once named, become the richest material of the work.
You draw on psychodynamic, gestalt, and humanistic contributions as well as those of coaching, and you open up to systemic, transactional, and narrative approaches, until you compose your own integrative practice - one that resembles you and that you know how to justify.
Facilitating a peer supervision group, guaranteeing safety and confidentiality within it, making the group a place of mutual learning - and supporting, session after session, the growing maturity of those you accompany.
Supervising is exposing. You learn to welcome uncertainty rather than flee it, to take care of your working conditions so you don't burn out, and to nurture your ongoing development. The program closes on didactics, Synodeo's signature: analyzing your own practice to extract what can be taught, designing situations that put practice - not just knowledge - to work. You no longer transmit recipes: you make your craft teachable.
One example of method and one case-study excerpt per module - taken directly from the program's courses.
The role-clarification interview: from the very first meeting, stating what supervision is and isn't, defusing the evaluation misunderstanding, and establishing the principle of non-substitution - before even addressing a situation.
A coach asks her supervisor, "what would you have done in my place?", expecting a recipe. Rather than answering, the supervisor names the request for a solution and turns it back toward the coach's own practice - who then recognizes that the client isn't really the problem.
The contracting interview: opening with the frame before any content, spelling out confidentiality and its limits, then clarifying the tripartite dimension with the institution before dealing with the slightest situation.
A director funding a supervision arrangement demands a written report on her employee for annual reviews. The supervisor holds the confidentiality of the content while offering an acceptable response - a statement of engagement - then renegotiates the tripartite contract that had stayed too vague.
The session contract: having the supervisee state, in one sentence, what they're seeking to understand or decide before diving into the narrative - this one-minute framing steers the whole hour that follows.
A supervisor lets his supervisee unfold three cases without prioritizing them. The essential point - an emotion knotted around a client she can't manage to close out - only surfaces eight minutes before the end, for lack of having contracted the session from the start.
The path of emotion: welcoming a feeling without explaining it, slowing down to return to the body, describing it before interpreting it, then seeking its message for the practice - never the reverse.
A practitioner comes out of otherwise successful sessions exhausted, without understanding why. By returning to sensation rather than analysis, she names a sadness "that isn't hers" - and discovers she's carrying the grief that her client never allows himself to show.
Building the confidentiality pact with the group, from the first session, explicitly distinguishing what protects the content from what protects the people - rather than invoking a confidentiality that's "understood."
A member of a supervision group discovers that a situation he had confided has circulated outside the group. The facilitator first acknowledges his hurt one-on-one, then brings the incident back to the group to rebuild, together, the pact that the initial vagueness had made possible.
The explicitation interview: revisiting a specific situation by questioning the "how" rather than the "why," surfacing the cue that guided the action, then testing it against a counter-case before formalizing it into a teachable competency.
A seasoned practitioner can't say how he "senses" that a session needs to change direction; his first explanation, though convincing, transmits nothing to his learner, who gets it wrong when applying it. By returning to the concrete detail of the action, he surfaces the real cue - a repetition of words that signals the session getting stuck - and finally makes it transmissible.
Condensed, anonymized excerpts from the program's case studies - for teaching purposes, not transcripts of real sessions.
A fully remote program, designed for practitioners in active practice: you move forward in depth rather than at a forced march, and never alone.
All the content is available asynchronously, at any time: theoretical input on the major models of supervision, methods, role-plays, and commented case studies where you watch supervision sessions unfold - and sometimes go off track - before your eyes.
A Synodeo mentor follows you over video from start to finish, to the tune of four hours included, alongside unlimited e-mail support. At this level, this support takes on a particular meaning: learning to supervise happens by being supervised yourself, and your mentor becomes the first mirror of your emerging stance.
In it, you document a real supervision arrangement that you build during the program - contracts, sessions, questions - and you draw from it an in-depth reflective analysis. It's where your practice as a supervisor is built and proven, in contact with reality.
Not a theoretical exam: the diploma rests on supervisions actually conducted, both individual and collective, and on your ability to formalize what you've learned from them in a transmissible way.
Your progress is validated along the way through role-plays, case analyses, and regular check-ins with your mentor. Each stage consolidates the previous one: you don't move on to conducting a session without having held the frame, nor to the group without mastering the individual work.
Validation rests on a final production worthy of the level targeted: you build and document a real supervision arrangement - individual and collective - you produce its reflective analysis via the black book, and you defend your work over video before your mentor. This defense demonstrates your ability to supervise within several frames of reference, to hold an arrangement from contract to closure, and to formalize your practice in a transmissible way.
At the end of the program, Synodeo awards you its professional diploma. It doesn't certify attendance: it validates competencies actually demonstrated in your black book, tested in real supervision work and developed with your mentor.
This diploma is part of a dual-recognition model. On one hand, a professional certification backed by an external professional body, which situates your competencies against industry standards. On the other, a professional diploma awarded by Synodeo, which puts the school's own responsibility behind the quality of your training and assessment.
Synodeo designs its own curricula and trains with full pedagogical autonomy; professional recognition, meanwhile, rests on a third party external to the profession. The same rigor runs from the first case study to the final defense.
This programme is recognised by the International Association of Coaches, Therapists & Mentors (IACTM) under Synodeo's accredited-trainer status. Your diploma may carry the IACTM logo, and once you graduate you may apply in your own right for the corresponding IACTM accreditation: Mentor or Supervisor.
An accreditation qualifies a programme; it is not a State approval, and it is distinct from the certification of your competencies, which your Synodeo diploma attests. It situates the training against the shared standards of the profession.
IACTM-accredited diploma