DGSv – Professional, specialized association for supervision and coaching par excellence
Since its founding in 1989, the German Association for Supervision and Coaching (DGSv) has been devoted to assuring quality in Supervision and Coaching. DGSv promotes concept development, research and experience.
Are you looking for sound supervision, coaching or organizational consulting? DGSv helps you to find the right supervisor, coach or consultant. Our members fulfill the highest standards of quality in the European supervision, coaching and organizational consulting markets.
What Is Supervisory Consulting — and what can it do?
Our overarching approach is what we call Supervisory consulting. This framework understands the fundamental needs and conflicts of being human and of working life.
It remains stable, even when things get turbulent. It supports useful, rewarding, and functional reflection processes for individuals and organisations.
It is shaped by a careful clarification of mandates, diagnostics, and process design across four dimensions: Person, Role, Organization, and Stakeholder Groups. This is precisely why its impact runs especially deep.
No other form of consulting can do that.
Want to dive deeper?
Read the DGSv Board’s Position on Supervisory Consulting and what it can and can’t do (PDF).
In a nutshell: What does the DGSv do?
Standards. Importance of DGSv for the supervision and coaching market
- Clear direction and guidance for quality and performance in supervision, coaching and organizational consulting.
- Demanding admissions criteria and ethical guidelines for supervisors, coaches and consultants.
- Certified continuing education for supervisors, coaches and organizational consultants.
- Quality through partnership: national and international cooperation with other associations, training institutes & universities, think tanks and certification bodies.
- Largest selection of qualified coaches and consultants in German-speaking countries.
Supervision, Coaching & Organizational Consulting. For our clients in the workplace
- Performance you can depend on: well-founded coaching offers from our qualified members for people and organizations seeking guidance.
- Broad range: Support for teams, individuals, specialists, managers and organizations in many supervision/coaching formats for any situation in the workplace.
Service. Benefits of the DSGv for its members
- Seal of quality: DGSv supervisors and coaches receive the stamp of approval from the largest German professional association of supervisors, coaches and consultants.
- Lobbying activities for the profession.
- Member services for work-related questions.
Discourse. Between the workplace, academia and society
- Supervision and Coaching in the workplace: Contact for companies and organizations, associations, as well as for those in the media and politics.
- Platform for professional discourse and development of coaching.
- Research-based further concept development. Evaluation in research projects and in dialog with universities.