The unseen foundation of our thought processes, feelings and actions is our unconscious mind. The things we’re fully aware in day-to-day life are just the tip of the iceberg.

By using metaphor, imagery and creative exercises in coaching we can work in a way that gets below the surface and beyond familiar stumbling blocks. This takes you out of the confines of habitual thinking and into the territory of the new and the unknown.

What can we do in creative coaching?

  • Art journaling, writing practices, collage exercises.
  • Start a creative practice that suits you and fits with your life.
  • Make creativity manageable through micro practices and accessible exercises.
  • Partner with your creativity at times of change, to learn about yourself and process what’s happening.
  • Work with and beyond the inner critic to build confidence and freedom.
  • Learn to trust your intuition through experimentation and listening.
  • Re-balance a noisy, busy world with the calm of a creative practice.
  • Work with images and ideas from your dreams to more fully learn from them.
  • Use images and collage as a way to visualise and clarify your goals and ideas.
Creative coaching can empower you to start and maintain a creative practice in your life, whether you’re an experienced artist or think of yourself as not being creative at all. 
 
The coaching process supports you to access resources within yourself that you weren’t aware of before. You don’t need any creative talent or skills to develop a creative practice that is rewarding and insightful. You don’t need to be able to draw or paint or have any other special skills to work with your creativity.
 
I hear many people say that they’re not creative, or that they’re terrible at art. I absolutely do not believe this, and I think it comes the misguided things we’ve been told about art and creativity.
 
We’ve been told – either implicitly or explicitly – that art needs to be a certain way, that there’s a right and wrong in art, and that we shouldn’t be doing it unless we’re ‘good at it’. All of us are creative, it’s our nature. It’s not an elite club reserved for the special few, regardless of how clueless or clumsy you feel around it right now.
 
There are simple and profound tools we can use to establish a creative practice in your life that gives you a sense of calm and mindfulness, teaches you about yourself, and supports any process of change that you are experiencing or preparing for.
"The creative coaching was playful and fun but then I was suddenly blown away with deep insights. She had the courage to say it like it is. I realised that the skill was in weaving together the bright stuff with the real depth."
Alice Holmes

My creative coaching principles...

  • Everyone is creative, it’s who we are and we can all build a fulfilling relationship with our imagination and creativity.
  • Creativity is an attitude and a practice of coming into a deeper relationship with ourselves and our lives. It’s a mirror that teaches us things and shows us insights.
  • Our relationship to creativity is connected to our sense of self, our relationship to our bodies and emotions.
  • Giving time and attention to creativity is an immense and profound gift that ripples out into our relationships and our work.
"The creative coaching was playful and fun but then I was suddenly blown away with deep insights. She had the courage to say it like it is. I realised that the skill was in weaving together the bright stuff with the real depth."
Aisha Hannibal

My creative story...

My career as an artist began in full force when I was about three years-old and wanted nothing more than to draw pictures of fairies in bunk beds. All day. Ten story bunk beds, and fairies with delightfully scrawny wings and fat tree-trunk legs. Pure joy.

My love for drawing and painting continued, even during times of my life when I was focusing on other things. When I was in France studying and working, all of my spare time was spent in life drawing classes and galleries. When I was working in IT back in the UK, I was studying fine art part-time in the evenings.

I went on to take a post-graduate certificate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. My art practice has been my place of solace and sanctuary over the years. It’s also been an uncompromising teacher, pushing me at every step to face my fears around my own self-expression and self-worth.

Creativity is my place to unwind and relax, and my way of giving voice to the deeper narrative that words can’t quite reach.

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