Safe Reflective Space for Assessors in Coaching and Supervision
Because holding standards starts with holding yourself—with care.
If you’re assessing, mentoring, or supporting someone’s path toward accreditation—whether through ICF, EMCC, AC, or another body—you already know how nuanced and layered that role can be. You are entrusted with evaluating others, often in ways that influence their next step, recognition, or identity as a professional.
You carry the weight of professional judgment, navigating between objectivity and intuition, standards and humanity. Your decisions don’t just assess individuals—they potentialy shape the coaching ecosystem itself.
This space exists for you. To offer pause, reflection, and companionship in the complexity. A place to explore your inner questions—not just the external criteria.
Whether you’re:
Seeking to explore your own approach to assessment — with more clarity and care
Looking to stretch your thinking and discover new perspectives in assessor role
Want to develop reflective habits and greater self-awareness
Navigating uncertainty or discomfort in evaluating someone’s work
Holding responsibility for someone’s growth and credentialing
Feeling the tension between institutional criteria and your own sense of fairness
Noticing inner tensions around clarity, consistency, or care
Noticing how your own preferences or biases might influence your assessments
Holding space for standards while holding your own humanity
Feel the need to pause, take a break, and create space for thinking and reflection.
You’re curious to see how others think, sense, and decide — and where that resonates with your own practice.
Peter Hawkins once said: “Supervision is not just for Christmas”. As a coach—or perhaps a supervisor yourself —you likely already understand the power of supervision. You’ve experienced how it helps you stay present, grow in self-awareness, and navigate your practice with integrity.
What may be new is bringing your assessor (or mentor role) into this kind of reflective space.
This work carries its own unique weight: the responsibility of evaluating others, of holding standards that shape someone’s future. And if you’re working within an accredited school, you’re often seen as the voice of the school’s reputation—not just the credentialing system. That’s a quiet pressure many carry, but few talk about.
This space is here for that. It’s not about right or wrong—it’s about being real, supported, and seen in the complexity of your role.
Thinking Through Complex Situations: A chance to reflect on your responses when rules or expectations aren’t fully clear.
Becoming Aware of Subtle Biases: A space to notice and explore how personal preferences or experiences may influence your evaluations.
Reserved Time and Space for Thinking: The sessions can provide a dedicated space to pause, reflect, and explore your thoughts without distractions.
Feeling of Being Listened to in a Non-Judgmental Way: Experience a supportive environment where you can express yourself openly.
Understanding Your Own Standards: An opportunity to examine how you define fairness, quality, and consistency within your role.
Returning to What Matters to You: Time to reflect on your values, intentions, and the kind of assessor or mentor you want to be.
Challenging the status quo
Few lines about me
Hi, I’m Adrijana Milosavljević—a coach, mentor, assessor, and supervisor, certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and Association for Coaching (AC).
Over the years, I’ve worked with individuals across the coaching and supervision landscape—supporting not just skill development, but also reflections on identity, ethics, and presence. What has always mattered most to me is creating spaces where people can think, feel, and reflect in a way that’s real and meaningful to them.
I’m trained as an ICF mentor and assessor (ACC, PCC, MCC levels), and as an EMCC assessor (at Practitioner and Senior Practitioner level), and I hold EMCC Accreditation as a Supervisor. I’ve worked with coaches and mentors preparing for credentials, assessing recordings, and guiding others in their professional growth. I value ongoing learning, cross-body conversations, and the richness of different approaches—something I regularly explore through events and exchanges, being a member of networks like Global Supervisors Network (GSN) and Supervision Adria Network (SAN), with an emerging aspiration to co-create a global community of coaching assessors across professional bodies.
What I bring into this space is presence, curiosity, and a respect for complexity. I don’t believe in formulas—but I believe in thoughtful exploration. And I’m looking forward to sit with some questions together with someone.
This offering isn’t just professional for me—it’s personal. It comes from what I’ve lived, observed, and longed for myself.
Check out what others have experienced on their journey of self-discovery and transformation through the process with me
I found the supervision sessions with Adrijana very enriching at all levels, she strikes a beautiful balance between giving valuable input and helping me reflect and discover new insights. Amazing!
Kathleen,
I experienced the process of supervision as a deeply transformative and empowering journey – precisely because of the way Adrijana facilitated it.
Her approach, her presence, and the way she held space for me shaped the entire dynamic of the process and enabled me to truly engage in deep reflection and personal growth. Thanks to her, supervision was not just a professional tool, but a space where I could genuinely meet myself.
Through her way of guiding the process – calm, focused, attentive, and non-intrusive, I felt safe to dive into challenging topics, to shed light on my own patterns, to speak about my insecurities, and to question parts of my practice I hadn’t had the courage to share before.
She facilitated the supervision process in a way that created space for it to unfold organically, in tune with what was emerging within me. It was a living space – a space where every encounter was an opportunity for something within me to find voice, light, and understanding. In that space, I was able to see not only how I work but who I am becoming as I work with clients.
Adrijana didn’t “teach” me , she led me by standing by my side. Her support wasn’t just professional; it was profoundly human. And it is precisely that humanity, grounded in knowledge, experience, and gentle clarity, that laid the foundation for my further development.
Olivera, ICF ACC
It’s a space to think and get new ideas for my practice. Adrijana is open, and easy to connect – great listener.
The supervision process with Adrijana was deeply supportive for me—and also challenging in the best possible way. She created a space where I felt seen, accepted, and safe to explore and shed light on what was professionally difficult and personally vulnerable. Her ability to ask clear questions, hold structure, and at the same time remain present, authentic, and human—makes her a supervisor I return to with trust. Through our work, I gained not only insights but also an inner grounding that continues to support me in working with clients and teams.
Renata, EMCC Senior Practitioner
Adrijana is kind, patient, encouraging and holds a high bar. Mentoring was very detailed and Adrijana took extra effort to be specific where possible and invited me to come prepared with my own reflections. Super helpful, I could see my growth in just few sessions. I wouldnt change much about the process.
Siddarth, ICF ACC, Health Coach
Supervision begins in wonder. And, at the end, when supervision dialogue has done its best, the wonder remains.
Peter Hawkins
Various programs:
The Reflective Cut
Individual Supervision Program
You already hold high standards for others.
But who supports you in holding your own?
This offer is designed for assessors who want more than just occasional support—
They want rhythm. Reflection. And space to stay grounded and clear.
We meet once per quarter to explore what’s alive for you:
the tensions, decisions, subtle shifts, and moments that stay with you longer than expected.
What’s included:
✔️ 4 individual reflective sessions per year (one per quarter)
✔️ Optional monthly asynchronous support via email or voice notes
✔️ Together, we’ll co-create reflective tools and practices—
not just techniques, but meaningful ways to pause, see more clearly, and reconnect with what matters in your role.
This is supervision that moves with your year. Intentional. Flexible. Rooted in care.
OR
For What Doesn’t Fit in the Rubric
Tailor made Individual/Group Sessions
You don’t need a program?
You just need a space—when a question appears and you need to pause.
We can co-create the process. 🙂
Voices from Around the Globe, Common Ground
Group Supervision sessions
These are not programs.
Not fixed groups.
Just thoughtfully held reflective sessions—regularly scheduled opportunities to pause and connect.
In each session, assessors and mentors from different credentialing bodies (ICF, EMCC, AC…) come together to share, explore questions, and reflect on the complexity of their role.
You don’t need to come with answers—just curiosity and presence.
We reflect together.
We learn from one another.
And what emerges here might travel further—
find its way back into our communities, our schools, and the profession we shape together.
Each session offers:
✔️ A welcoming, professionally held reflective space
✔️ A diverse group of voices and perspectives
✔️ Support, resonance, and new ways of seeing
✔️ A chance to connect, even if just for that one moment
Co-Creating Alignment Within Your School
Group Supervision sessions
If you’re part of an accredited coaching school — whether EMCC EQA, or ICF Level 1 or 2 — and you’d like to create a reflective space for your assessors, I offer tailor-made group sessions for your team.
Whether you’re a school owner, a program leader, or an assessor yourself, and you’re looking for more alignment, support, or a space to pause and reflect — this can be co-designed to meet your unique needs.
These sessions are neutrally facilitated, shaped together with you, and centered on shared learning, trust, and deeper alignment across your community.
A place to connect across roles, clarify standards beyond checklists, and support those who support others.
Each session offers:
✔️ A safe, neutral space — designed in partnership with your school
✔️ Focus on alignment across assessors, mentors, and program leads
✔️ Time to reflect on standards, values, and shared dilemmas
✔️ Insightful dialogue that strengthens trust and coherence within your team
How this program emerged?
In many conversations with fellow assessors and mentors, I found myself circling around questions that often stay unspoken:
What is coaching, really?
What does mastery look like—and who defines it?
What determines a level, and how do we apply that with fairness?
Where does my judgment meet the framework? And where does it diverge?
These aren’t theoretical questions—they’re deeply practical. They sit quietly in the background when we’re asked to assess someone’s coaching, mentor them through credentialing, or represent an accredited school’s standards.
I started to notice that while supervision is common for coaches, there’s little space—if any—for assessors and mentors to reflect on their own role, their own tensions, and their own experience of this responsibility.
This idea didn’t come from a strategy or a program design—it came from practice. From noticing what was missing. From hearing similar concerns and questions come up in different conversations. Over time, it became clear that this kind of space could be valuable. That assessors and mentors, too, need somewhere to pause, reflect, and feel supported.
If you’re curious to explore ways we could work together or have any specific questions, fill out this form—I’d love to connect and share more with you!
