Reflective Roots:Group Supervision for Parenting & Family Coaches, practitioners and leaders
A nurturing, collaborative supervision programme designed for coaches and leaders supporting families and parents with navigating the everyday and specialist challenges of parenting, family life, health and education. For those working with parents and families when life has not gone to plan.
Programme overview
Format: Monthly 2-hour sessions for a closed group of up to 6 coaches/leaders
Delivery: Online via video conferencing dates tbc starting in September 2026
Duration: 12-month cycle, with a 6 month minimum commitment
Approach: Integrative supervision drawing on systemic thinking, the Seven-Eyed Model, and trauma-responsive practice—held within a framework that balances your support, development, and growth.
Cost: £80 per session £480 for the 6 month commitment. Payment plans are available.
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The supervision framework
Every session is structured to honour three functions of supervision:
Support for you, the person holding it all. Giving you the space that you need to reflect, feel nurtured and held.
Development, the opportunity to learn, reflect on yours and group with tangible tools and reflections that you can take and apply to your practice.
Growth, a space to connect with others in a related field, deep reflection on your practice, relationships with the parents and families you work with and the systems around you.
Trauma-responsive supervision
Working with families: especially around separation, neurodivergence, adverse childhood experiences, and relational rupture means practitioners regularly encounter trauma, both clients' and their own echoes.
The programme embeds trauma-responsive principles throughout:
Safety first: Consistent structure, predictable rhythm, clear confidentiality agreements
Choice and agency: Practitioners choose what and how much to bring; no forced vulnerability
Attunement: Facilitator models co-regulation; pacing adapts to the group's nervous system
Strengths-based reflection: Honouring what's working, not only what's hard
Window of tolerance awareness: Noticing when group members move toward hyper- or hypo-arousal; supporting return to grounded presence
Parallel process as information: Using what arises in the room to illuminate dynamics in client work
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About the group supervisor
Penny is the Founder and CEO of the Parent Village, Penny has been working directly with parents, families, schools and early help systems for over 20 years. Most recently leading peer led parenting programmes. She founded the Parent Village to continue and expand the passion she and her colleagues had for peer to peer parenting support. The organisation was founded to help parents feel more equipped and less alone in supporting their children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Penny is the co-creator of peer-to-peer coaching programmes, parenting for wellbeing and the 8 week Parenting with Cancer Coaching programme and has worked with over 200 parents since the Parent Villages inception and 100’s more during her career.
She has been supervising parenting facilitators, coaches and leaders for the past 8 years and most recently completed her coach supervision diploma. Penny is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and has over 500 coaching hours and over 150 coach training hours. She is dedicated to her own supervision practice and works one to one with a supervisor and engages in supervision of supervisors.
Why get your supervision from The Parent Village?
Skilled experienced coach supervisor
Expertise in your chosen field of specialism
A dedicated group working in a shared field
Opportunity to support a charity - put your investment to great use for you and for parents The Parent Village Supports (profits from the group fees will be channeled into our front line support)
Your Investment Supports our work with parents
By choosing supervision with The Parent Village, you’re not only investing in your own development — you’re directly supporting parents in need.
£480 for 6 x 2 hour online supervision group sessions delivered over 6 months. Dates and times to be confirmed. Payment plans can be agreed.
