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