A Creative Life Group Coaching

In our first session we set up our community – introducing ourselves, our unique situations and what brings you to the programme. We will explore how we will work to get the most from the programme and from each other. We’ll discuss the choices you have made to commit to this work – and what you will need to stay committed, keep accountable and remain present in this process. We will share with you the many ways we will support you to succeed in this programme and make the most of the choice you have made to join us.

Our second session looks at the kinds of belief that underpin your creative recovery. These range from beliefs that serve you well in the process, and those that hold you back. In coaching, we believe you need to be aware of the beliefs that shape your decisions and behaviours, to be able to interrogate and reframe those that might not be working so well for you. This session also explores relationships that support and serve our creative interests, and those that do not. Lastly, we’ll begin to make way for practical action and habitual change.

This session explores how change looks and feels - as we move out of our comfort zone and think about the uncertainty that change can elicit. We will harness our powers of noticing and self-awareness as the root of habitual change. We then turn our minds to the significant transformations we have been through in our past - including becoming a parent including what we thought we knew, what we discovered along the way and how we have grown in the process.

The time to do nothing - to let your creativity emerge - feels like an incredible luxury as a mother and creative solitude is hard to achieve. Add to this the story that we can’t be the same creative person we were before children, nor would our creative efforts make the kind of income we need. Even allowing ourselves the opportunity to create feels like a privilege, not the necessity it might once have been. This session focuses on how to grant yourself the permission you need, so that creativity becomes central to everything you do.

To go through transformation, as this programme encourages you to do, we need to trust the process offered - and ourselves to be able to navigate it. We need to trust that this is the right choice for us, at the right time, for the right reasons.Only then do we really shift our intrinsic motivation to do things differently. This session gets us thinking about the blocks that feel in our way - from our own fear and concept of risk - to the unhelpful beliefs and logistical challenges that drive our daily decision making. We start planning for the future you want to create.

Being playful might seem frivolous, unnecessary, childish. But imagine trying to fix an old problem or hunt for a new solution without a playful, inquisitive mindset? Playfulness, exploration, imagination, creativity are all at the heart of a growth mindset and mental fitness. And this mindset creates opportunities for growth and change, for new habits to form and for our hope to thrive. Here, we remind ourselves of our inner child - our original artist and creative, playful being - and to connect to a lifetime of creative spirit.

We close our work together by reflecting on what has changed in the 12 weeks, and what you will take forward after we have finished. We will revisit our ever-changing needs, and what you will do to satisfy yours in the future. We will discuss ways to sustain our new practices - and to keep in touch and motivated to create. We will explore how to remain curious and open to possibility, and consider the application of all we have learned together.