What is Creativity Coaching?
Coaching has
moved from the sports and business worlds to include life
coaching, and now, creativity coaching. A creativity coach that works with you
in regular phone sessions provides the individual support and feedback that helps you
accomplish your goals as a craftsperson and visual artist.
Creativity Coaching is ...
- highly individualized in both content and format. It is different from any
class in that it encourages maximum input from the coaching client.
- an equal relationship where the coach helps clients do for themselves what
they want and need to do to accomplish their goals. It is different from
therapy, in that coaching emphasizes the future.
- focused on you, the artist, discovering and developing your own skills and
vision. It is different from working with a mentor where techniques often are
a main focus.
For a sampling of topics often discussed in creativity coaching, check out
the 2 coaching groups offered under Group Coaching:
Deepening the Source and Building Confidence In and Out of the
Studio.
You Should Consider Coaching When ..
 | you are blocked and not
producing the work you dream of.
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| you have committed to
making work that will stretch your skills and want support to successfully
reach this next level. |
| you want to take your
creativity more seriously. |
| you can benefit from
honest feedback in a confidential, supportive relationship. |
| self-help books are not
helping. |
What’s the Format?
The best way to see how creativity
coaching works is to schedule a
complimentary one-hour session.
Once you decide that this is the time for you to begin coaching, a schedule
of regular phone sessions is arranged. You may choose to work individually or in
a group. Individual sessions can be 30 or 60 minutes, 2 or 3 times a month,
custom-fitted to your need. You, the client, call the coach at the pre-arranged
time.
Part of making changes in the way you create is learning to handle unexpected
successes and setbacks as a matter of course. Such changes do not happen
overnight and, for this reason, an initial coaching agreement is for a minimum
of 3 months. All coaching includes email for updating and brief replies from the
coach. Fees are payable at the start of each month by credit card or check.
How much does coaching cost?
Coach’s fees vary widely as do the
services provided. I have chosen to focus my coaching practice in the area I am passionate about, the visual arts.
Once you have decided to start coaching, your goals determine whether to work
individually or in a group, and the frequency and length of sessions. The
maximum for individual work is 3 one-hour sessions a month plus email support
for $300. Many clients choose their own combinations of sessions to suit their
goals, time and budget needs.
How can we accomplish anything in 30 minutes?
I see my job as keeping a clear focus on the client’s goals and progress. In
each session, progress is reviewed, goals are refocused, and homework is
designed and agreed to. Many people are delighted by how much they learn on
their own between sessions by carrying out exercises tailored to their specific
and timely issues.
Coaching Philosophy
Although I am open to many areas of your
life as they affect accomplishing your goals, neither my background nor my
school of coach training espouses any particular philosophical or spiritual
approach. Coaching helps you make the changes you want to make, using your
personal resources which include your own values and
beliefs. My goal is to
help you develop ways of gaining confidence in your own perceptions and honoring your inner guidance.
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