Creative Practice
I am a creative coach working with individuals, groups and organisations.
I work in a dynamic way – moving people forward, developing creativity, motivating their relationship with the work environment, offering individual empowerment.
Creative coaching can be a one-to-one experience or we can learn together in a group.
In all areas trust, commitment, support and confidentiality are paramount.
Creativity can be a pass-key to a new relationship with the world – empathic, powerful, exciting. At all times I work to increase the client’s awareness, providing bold strategies to deal with a variety of choices and obstacles.
I am a creative practitioner with a 20 year history of making public projects.
My coaching uses creative techniques to subtly change our relationship to the world – opening up opportunity, resolution, engagement, change.
I offer creative thinking, beyond-the-box strategies and new ways of looking.
I specialise in working with creative blocks, disentangling the log-jam of familiar problems and focusing on the opportunities for change.
The ways in which these techniques might manifest are:
Finding effective resolutions to conflict.
Goal setting.
Addressing group dynamics.
Increasing awareness.
Creative planning.
At all times I work with your own compass, directing you to intuitive solutions to your current challenges.
Creative coaching can offer strategies for day-to-day stresses. It can also dynamically open up our relationship to the inside world and hence our view of the landscape beyond our self.
It can enlarge the window.
Within creative coaching a key theme is play, using the plasticity of language and form to enhance the contact with our own lives.
Outputs of creative coaching might be:
Better contact with others in the workplace.
Dynamic presentation skills.
Enhanced listening.
Creative solutions to familiar blocks.
Imaginative branding and marketing techniques.
I facilitate workshops on a variety of subjects:
‘Generating ideas and selling your vision to others’
‘Do it yourself, the aesthetic of making things happen’
‘Developing creativity and working with creative blocks’
‘Play as a tool for creative business development’
Workshops can be tailor-made to support key aims or to create a focus for a particular group.
Participants’ feedback from recent workshops:
‘It was a great introduction to the inner artist and creativity.’
‘Very good workshop.’
‘I really enjoyed it. Time for reflection. Its effect will be felt over a long period.’
‘Really good. Great speaker. Good recommendations.’
‘A very rich and powerful space was created in a short space of time.’
‘I really enjoyed the session and found it useful.’
‘The workshop opened many doors - allowed me to play, explore, exchange - that's all I needed.’
‘Really good practical advice - very user friendly.’
‘It met every single one of my expectations because it was open and well designed.’
I’ve made over 30 professional pieces - galleries, live, digital, print.
Output spaces include the ICA, the Hayward Gallery and the V&A. In 2000/1, as part of the Year of the Artist, I was artist in residence at the Guardian Newspaper.
I have worked in many different contexts - as a coach, artists’ advisor and workshop leader. Recent clients include Rosemary Butcher, Lambeth Arts, Portland Green Cultural Projects and Stockholm City Council.
I’m a trained Transpersonal Psychotherapist (CCPE).
My book ‘How To Be An Artist’, published by Kiosk, ISBN 978-0-9531073-1-5, 180mm x 120mm, 256 pages, is out now.
If you would like to know more about my creative approach to coaching or would like to book a workshop, please contact me.