Supporting Clients as a Creativity Coach
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One of the essential roles of a Creativity Coach is to offer support and accountability and it's support that a client needs most from a coach. Support feels most like compassion and kindness. Its hard for people to be kind and compassionate to themselves. They tend to beat themselves up and say tough words to themselves, especially if they have been failing in life for a while.
People need someone to talk to about there work. They want to talk to someone about their struggle and the gap between their dreams and reality. People need to hear things like, "You can do it and I will help you".
Support is a broad church and what it involves exactly is dependent on the kind of Creative work the client is involved in. Support is a general attitude on the part of the Coach but it also includes actions like coming along to see a showing at a gallery or a first night performance. It might include supporting issues a client has with making meaning from their work or it might take a more psychological nature and include work on procrastination or performance anxiety.
One way a coach may offer practical support to Creative is by speaking with them about starting a new routine. For example writing in the morning before the emails are looked at.
Encouraging clients to accept the anxiety of creating is another way of offering support. In fact making a client aware of the anxiety of creating could be another as it's not something that all clients are aware off.
Finally other ways of offering support could be by getting your client to reflect and think more deeply. Getting to them to forgive themselves and Telling them that it is not too late or that they have got it in them
People need someone to talk to about there work. They want to talk to someone about their struggle and the gap between their dreams and reality. People need to hear things like, "You can do it and I will help you".
Support is a broad church and what it involves exactly is dependent on the kind of Creative work the client is involved in. Support is a general attitude on the part of the Coach but it also includes actions like coming along to see a showing at a gallery or a first night performance. It might include supporting issues a client has with making meaning from their work or it might take a more psychological nature and include work on procrastination or performance anxiety.
One way a coach may offer practical support to Creative is by speaking with them about starting a new routine. For example writing in the morning before the emails are looked at.
Encouraging clients to accept the anxiety of creating is another way of offering support. In fact making a client aware of the anxiety of creating could be another as it's not something that all clients are aware off.
Finally other ways of offering support could be by getting your client to reflect and think more deeply. Getting to them to forgive themselves and Telling them that it is not too late or that they have got it in them
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For more information about Creativity Coaching contact Tom Binns at the Creativity Practice.
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