How Creativity Coaching Works

During the Creativity Coaching process we will work collaboratively in identifying your strengths as well as uncover any obstacles that might be getting in the way of your creative flow, productivity or reaching your goals. Together we will explore what approaches can help enhance your creative process. We will also discover what steps or choices are needed to move you towards your creative visions whether it’s towards a single project, a body of work, your creative career or taking your creativity to the next level.

I will encourage you to try on new ways of thinking and approaches to your creative process so that you can grow and evolve. We’ll explore what is working and ways to build on your own existing strengths and innate resources. Through accountability, guidance and support I can assist you in reaching your creative potential.

An important aspect of the coaching process and working collaboratively, is that you feel you are getting what it is you need out of the coaching process. Therefore, you are free to shift the coaching process towards a different area of focus or goal at anytime.

Creativity Coaching can be done through e-mail, phone, Skype or in person. I offer a few different coaching options to best suit your needs during the different stages of the process.

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What Creativity Coaching can do for you:
  • Identify what is blocking your creative process.
  • Discover ways to sustain meaning and purpose in your artwork.
  • Develop your talents and enhance your creativity.
  • Clarify what choices and steps to take in order to reach your creative potential.
  • Develop alternate ways to get unstuck when other ways haven’t worked in the past.
  • Help you re-enter the creative process after periods of not creating.
  • Develop a plan to help complete a project or body of work.
  • Support & encourage you to continue discovering ways to manifest your visions.
  • Develop new skills and approaches to increase productivity.
  • Provide a partnership and accountability for continued motivation and focus.
  • Explore how anxiety, resistance or self-doubt gets in the way of you creating.
  • Transform the inner critic into more constructive ways to look at your work.
  • Uncover hidden creativity so that the undiscovered artist can emerge.


Creativity Coaching is not Therapy


Although Creativity Coaching can be therapeutic it is not therapy and does not address or treat major emotional, behavioral or mental disorders. Although, the coaching process may explore aspects such as self-doubt, creative anxiety and negative self-talk, Creativity Coaching is a goal-oriented approach. Unlike therapy, creativity coaching focuses on meeting you where you’re at and moving you towards the future versus extensive time exploring the past. Creativity Coaching is for healthy, functioning and highly motivated individuals who are ready to take steps towards achieving results. To better understand the differences between therapy and coaching, view chart below.

Therapy
Creativity Coaching
Assumes the client needs healing
Assumes the client is whole
Roots in medicine, psychiatry,
medical model
Performance model
Diagnoses & treatment
what’s wrong, dysfunction
Collaborative & co-creation
what’s working, functional
Works with people to achieve
emotional healing &
self-understanding
Roots in sports, business,
personal growth venues,
evolving & expanding
Focuses on feelings
and past events
Works to move people to
higher levelof functioning
Explores the root of problems
“why me?/why this?”
Focuses on solving problems,
“what's next?/what now?”
Works to bring the unconscious
into consciousness
Works with the
consciousness mind
Focus on process
Focus tends toward results
Spends time explore the
past and history
Focuses on the present,
future & related experiences
Works for internal resolution of pain
and to let go of old patterns
Works for external solutions to
overcome barriers, learn new skills
and implement effective choices
Heals past, restoration, undoing
Create future, enhancement, doing
Adapted from “Comparison Chart: Conventional Therapy v. Personal Coaching” by CoachVille.com, 2002 and Hayden and Whitworth, 1995

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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