Art & Creativity Coaching
We are meaning makers and art is a way we make meaning.
The need to create and express ourselves is innate to the human experience. Developing yourself as an artist can be practiced and cultivated.
We are all artists.
We humans are a funny bunch. We could just meet our basic needs of food, water, shelter, and relationship and call it a day, but we don’t.
Instead of picking food out of the garden and eating whatever will nutritionally sustain us, we mix flavors and ingredients and then display our creations in beautiful cookware, pottery, and dishes on tables filled with candles and flowers. Instead of listening to the sounds that nature naturally produces, we craft elaborate instruments and then combine those instruments to arrange sound that tickles our ears.
Everything is a creative process and art is everywhere, if we can recognize it. This is part of what sets us apart from other species and it’s integral to the human experience.
WTF is art and creativity coaching?
Wow, what a great question!
If you have children, or if you recall your own childhood, you know that kids are constantly playing, creating, making, inventing, and experimenting. Somewhere, and usually at many different points, along the way to adulthood, our sense of play and creativity gets stifled. At best, our creativity isn’t celebrated or nurtured, at worst, it’s snuffed out altogether. We lose touch with the artists that we are and our own inner voice as we conform to others’ ideas of how we should live and be in the world.
Counseling can help you reconnect to and cultivate your own inner artist and unique voice.
Being out of touch with your own creative energy can feel like:
Meh/blah
You’re living the wrong life
Lacking confidence
Lacking energy and/or fatigue
Not knowing where to go or what to do
Feeling hopeless about the future
Depression
Boredom
Ennui
Burnout
Lacking inspiration
Stuck or blocked
Rigidity
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization...This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”
Cultivate Your Artistic Self
Cultivate Your Artistic Self
Through this work we will:
Discover where you’re blocked or stuck.
Rework messages and beliefs you received that may be shutting you down.
Reconnect to the artistic/creative part of you.
Tap into what excites and gives you energy.
Experiment with different ways of expressing yourself.
Strengthen your own unique voice.
Cultivate an artistic practice.
