What Does A Creativity Coach Do?
As a kaizen-muse creativity coach, I help you get unstuck in your creative process. Creativity coaching focuses on the process and honors the non-linear process of creativity and the creative personality.
Kaizen-muse creativity was created by Jill Badonsky and came about because she couldn’t find a coach who understood the non-linear process of creativity and her creative personality.
Kaizen is Japanese and means "continuous improvement with small steps"
Instead of setting big, unrealistic goals for yourself, you create lasting change by taking one small step at a time. It's a gentle, kind, and helluva lot more realistic way of creating new habits and changes to your life, work, and business.
What does a kaizen-muse creativity coach do?
Let's say you love writing, and you’d love to write a book. But your many ideas and your many interests make it hard for you to get into a habit of sitting down to write. You do sometimes, but not very often, and that book stays in your head.
You say to yourself that one day, you'll write that book. When you've got more time/money or the kids are older........
As your creativity coach, I’ll help you look into a way where you can get to your writing. A realistic and gentle way, that will work for you. We’ll look at how you create, your thoughts, and your feelings around your writing. What might have worked for you in the past, if you've created something before?
We look at what is stopping you from writing. Really. And it's not time, or the wrong computer, or stationary. But it could be that your expectations of yourself are, that your first book has to be a worldwide success. Even if you've never written a book before. And that is such a huge mountain to climb, with such a huge risk of failure, that instead of getting started on that first chapter, you'll just check Facebook one more time.
I use this particular example, as it's one I know personally ;-)
The type of creativity coaching I am certified in is after the Kaizen-Muse method.
“It’s not just about creativity. It’s about the person you’re becoming while you’re creating”
The 9 Muses
Muse is referring to Jill’s book "The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard)" and these nine muses really just represent nine creative principles.
Aha-Phrodite: Muse of paying attention, passion, and possibilities.
Albert: Muse of imagination and innovation.
Bea Silly: Muse of play, laughter, and dance
Muse Song; Muse of nurturing, encouragement, and good company.
Spills: Muse of practice, process, and imperfection.
Audacity: Muse of courage and uninhibited uniqueness
Lull: Muse of pause, diversion, and gratitude
Shadow: Muse of the dark side.
Marge: Muse of okay-now-let's-get-started
Kaizen-Muse creativity coaching is particularly well suited for creatives as we tend to be rebels, and don't like being told what to do :-) It's based on gentleness, compassion, and kaizen small steps.
Not big goal setting, being told what to do, or threats of "if you want to be mediocre, then do what you've always done. But if you want to be successful like me, then you must do as I say..... "
You may be familiar with this marketing lingo on the internet.
Who could benefit from creativity coaching?
Creativity coaching is incredibly powerful for anyone who is stuck doing creative work, and for creative business owners. I specialize in helping multi-passionate creatives and entrepreneurs, as I completely understand this type of creative personality.
Creativity coaching focuses on the process of creating and helping you build a sustainable process that is realistic, inspiring, and feels good. I don't judge or critique your work, that is not my job. My job is to help you create a kinder way to work. How you work matters.
Look, creating is hard. It's work and it has a tendency to bring up fears we didn’t know we had. It shines a light on our bad habits and asks us to step into the unknown. Blocks like perfectionism, feeling overwhelmed, and constant procrastination are normal. Kaizen, self-love, and compassion are two pillars in my coaching and past clients have had amazing results once they learned how to implement them into their process.
When do you need a creativity coach?
When a creativity coach is the best next step for you is when you just don’t get anywhere and you’re ready to learn a new approach. When you need help in figuring out how you can move forward with your creative dream or your creative business.
It could be called: "someone to talk to when I'm stuck in my creative life/business/writing/painting/blog/etc."
That's a good name. If a little long :-)
If you’re interested in coaching, here’s my coaching page.
If you want to learn more about kaizen, I highly recommend you get my e-book “Using Kaizen to Build a Better Process”
Either way, I hope you keep creating your work. We need more creatives and the gifts you have.
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