Creative Coaching – coaching for creatives and creative companies
Creative Coaching – coaching for creatives and creative companies
Creators of creative work and creative entrepreneurs find their head and table way too full sometimes. There is a fading career or interest, a rising career or interest, and a thousand individual projects all at once. Maybe some work to to pay the bills on the side. Personal and commercial creative work are hard to separate.
Sometimes there is confusion with everything: how to get any kind of order in life and work? Or achieving goals seems impossible.
The creative mind works differently than the linear, logical mind. Under the pressure of creative work, it is sometimes difficult to see and understand everything on the table. Organizing various tasks and projects into a smooth work plan can seem impossible. Everything you do can seem equally important and busy.
Sometimes you try to forcefully push all the ideas into one project without realizing it and the work gets stuck. There may have been a leap from a hobbyist activity to business activity or a multidisciplinary project whose commercial and functional patterns are foreign to you.
It can be difficult to understand the pressures and challenges of being a creative without having experienced them. Uncertainty about one's own creations or ideas. Backwaters belonging to creative work, where the work doesn’t progress as desired. A red thread lost somewhere along the way that you don't even realize you've lost. Overdrive brought by stress, which makes the situation look like a shapeless mess. Sometimes you can momentarily lose faith in yourself completely.
It is always easier for an outsider to distinguish the different streams of creative work from each other and package them into distinct entities. It is also easy for an experienced creative to understand various recurring challenges in project work.
Sometimes the author has just missed something essential right under her nose, which brings everything back on track when someone just brings it up. Sometimes you need sparring for a more professional touch or the basics of running a business.
Perhaps we can also outline your way or your company's way of working; how we can support the progress of your projects, thinking about the most suitable everyday life for you. And how you could support your wellbeing in the midst of your pressures.
With a coach, an encourager, also deadlines can be set in their right places: what needs to be ready and when in any project or endeavor. The coach helps you hear yourself and the methods and goals that suit you.
All creative activity and business can be planned so that your visions can come true.
I help you or your company to organize the situation into concrete, eventually also visually illustrative plan. Where are you going, what's on the table, what to do now and what later. In business, you might need some new angles or new collaborators to get your work flourish. Depending on what everyone needs in their situation.
I have been doing coordinated multidisciplinary creative work for almost 25 years. It means that my creative work has always had a schedule and result goals. In addition, I've been an entrepreneur for 14 years and I've been really swinging it.
Projecting has been a central part of my work: figuring out where we are and how to get everybody to the finish line. I want to use my experience to help you or your company to move forward and achieve important goals - without forgetting well-being.
Creative coaching
Each creative coaching package is agreed based on the initial discussion. Coaching sessions include a visual project plan draft (pdf for the customer) and its updates between meetings.
In the meetings, we first outline your situation, and then we work on a plan for the progress of your work or project according to your situation. With companies we may have representatives from various teams developing the vision and plan.
After the start, we meet once or twice, or in larger entities more, so that your situation can be worked into a clear plan. And, if necessary, monitored to promote it. We ensure that you have a working plan to get to the goal you are looking for.
We will look at the situation more broadly with the companies if necessary. All work for companies according to the offer and contract.
Please be in touch if needed so let’s see how I can help!