Creative Life Coaching

Would you like support to:

• Explore how emotions and thoughts like fear, anxiety and depression get in the way of your creativity?

• Clarify your motivation for doing creative work?

• Stop procrastinating about getting down to doing creative work?

• Have a routine for doing creative work?

• Change the direction of your creative work?

• Progress your creative work further?

• Feel more fulfilled doing creative work?

• Feel good about sharing your creative work with others, whether commercially or non commercially?
  

What is Life Coaching?
Life coaching is a confidential conversation between two people, where the coachee decides what topic they wish to explore, and what their goal is, or how they might like to move forward on a personal or professional issue. As your life coach, I am non-judgemental, and do not advise or direct you. Instead I travel alongside you, offering supportive, and often challenging questions and techniques from mindfulness, art therapy, life coaching and art teaching to help you discover what you know already, but did not realise that you knew.

What is Creative Life Coaching?
You can either:
Be coached specifically on issues relating to doing or wanting to do, creative work. You can be doing, or want to do, any creative art form including visual arts, writing, performing arts, crafts, design, film, photography and so on.
Or:
Not necessarily be doing a creative art form, but want to use creative thinking and activities as part of a general life coaching experience to increase focus, non verbal wisdom and insights to move forward on your chosen issue. In either case, you can decide on any personal or work related issue you want to explore and move forward on.

Testimonial: "These sessions have helped me to define my broad goals, to set short term targets and to find the confidence to expand and explore my work as a textile artist" Beth, Norfolk

What is the difference between Art Tuition and Creative Life Coaching?

Art Tuition: For a beginner this involves directive, structured, step-by-step, learning of creative skills, knowledge and understanding through instruction, demonstration, discussion, exercises, projects and so on. The aim is to equip you with an expressive 'toolbox' which you can increasingly use to explore and develop ideas and themes of personal interest to create images or objects. While this can entail some dealing with issues such as low confidence and creative blocks, this is not the main emphasis.

Creativity Coaching: here, the emphasis is on exploring ways of getting to know and moving through unhelpful emotions or thoughts which are getting in the way of doing or progressing your creative work.

How long are sessions, when and where?

Session length varies, depending on what you need. They can be daytime, evening or weekends. I offer coaching sessions by phone or in person.

Who is the coach?

My name is Zangmo Alexander, and I am a fully qualified Art Teacher, professional artist/photographer, meditator and life coach in training on a Diploma in LIfe Coaching Course with the UK Coaching Partnership, approved by the Association for Coaching. I abide by the Association for Coaching standards, and have full professional indemnity and public liability insurance.

I have over 28 years' experience working with professional and non professional clients from a wide range of backgrounds in colleges, the community, healthcare, social services, and private practice, so you have the assurance of working with an experienced, well qualified professional, who is both patient and encouraging and supportively challenging!

Walking my Talk

In my own creative practice, I have always used art as a means of exploring self and identity, who I am at increasingly deep levels. This has included, and continues to include, working with my own blocks, procrastinations, fear, anxiety, and other gremlins which arise as both my challenges and my teachers. For me, creative practice is an intrinsic part of the spiritual path of self knowledge. I have also had many years of art therapy, psychotherapy and meditation practice.

How do I find out more?

Phone me, Zangmo Alexander, on 01379 687360, when we can have an informal, no obligation, free talk about what you are looking for, and whether Creative Life Coaching is right for you.

For more details about life coaching, please go to www.mindfullifecoaching.co.uk

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