Create order from disorder with a new approach.
Improve your wellbeing by committing to your creative arts practice.
Discover innovative avenues to problem-solving.
Change up your practice and your business and make it work for you.
Identifying the issue
Artistic life and creative workspace can feel ‘swampy’ and messy, joyful, inspiring, and challenging. So many feelings and emotions arise when we commit to a creative practice. This in itself can feel confronting, challenging, confusing, and even intimidating to you, as the artist and creator, thus possibly inhibiting your business productivity and self-motivation. It may even leave you feeling a little lost, with no clear direction.
It’s often difficult to pinpoint the real reasons behind your business challenges. How are you then expected to address these issues without first knowing what exactly they are?
Applying the solution
My programs for coaching artists and creators start with you. I encourage and support you to step outside of your usual comfort zone, and explore new ways to express your artistic self.
At all times I have your artistic mind and the passion you have for your creative and artistic practice at the forefront. As a practicing artist myself, I’ll help you ask the questions you need to ask of yourself, and work with you to improve your processes, working environment, and even self-belief in such situations, so that your practice and business may flourish.
“I first took a course called “where to next“, which was facilitated by Cathryn for Flying arts. I had profound insights about my practice, it was a time I had to stop and look at my business from the outside. She helped me make decisions that suited my practice, philosophy and product when it came to building a community, marketing and communication. She helped me ask myself beautiful questions so I could find the right answers. I highly recommend Cathryn’s coaching.”
How does it work?
Our coaching solutions for artists and creators start with the person, and attend to the artist, the creator, the one who cares deeply about their work and the world in which they live. Coaching offers you, the creative force, a chance to pause in a safe environment and contemplate your practice in a new light.
Working with me, you’ll be equipped with alternative ideas, methods, strategies, and techniques to help design a more meaningful and purposeful future, and generate helpful working habits that fuel your creative practice and wellbeing.
Our co-creative way of working with our clients draws on people’s skills, wisdom, passion and experiences.
We use a range of highly interactive, participatory processes and methodologies such as Practice-Led and Artful Inquiry, Arts-Based Learning Experiences, Systems Thinking. Systemic Coaching, Action Learning, Reflective Practice, Provenance, Prototyping, Appreciative Inquiry, and Design Thinking, to support you to work well and channel your inner creativity.
Coaching sessions are flexible and tailored to meet your need. Coaching with creatives generally starts with a Discovery session. Further sessions are flexible and can be offered as whole days, or a series of full or half-days, or hourly sessions. Sessions can be conducted in person or virtually.
Note that Maverick Minds coaching services should not be treated as therapy, counselling, or training.
What’s in it for me?
Discover what is important and uncover what is possible.
Help keep your creative dreams, aspirations, and visions alive.
Identify opportunities and further develop your creative mindset.
Shift your thinking and gain a new perspective.
Work realistically with internal and external challenges.
Design meaningful ways to take creative action.
Bring your creative life, business venture, and projects to fruition.
Bring about positive change in your to day-to-day life.
Improve your creative wellbeing.
FAQs
What's an artistic coach?
Artistic coaches work with leaders, managers, teams, and individuals to develop creative confidence, capability, and wellbeing. We work with our ‘Artful Inquiry’ methodology, such as drawing, painting, designing, making and creating – anything that ignites creative thinking – to help give people a new perspective and enhance new ways of thinking and being.
How do you coach creativity?
We use methodologies such as Practice-Led and Artful Inquiry, Arts-Based Learning Experiences, Systems Thinking. Systemic Coaching, Action Learning, Reflective Practice, Provenance, Prototyping, Appreciative Inquiry, and Design Thinking’. It’s a way for individuals and teams to explore ideas imaginatively and strategically through a range of innovation, inventive, resourceful, reflective, and aesthetic processes. My creative industries, visual arts and design background allow us to innovate our service by using arts-based methods such as images, stories, drawing, painting, music, nature, mindfulness, applied improvisation, play and journaling to promote creative inquiry, helping to build confidence, collaboration, and wellbeing within oneself, and in the workplace.
Is coaching an art or a science?
Coaching can be both an art and a science. My ‘Artful Inquiry’ methodology takes an arts-based approach. Yet I’ve undertaken research and collected data through my Doctorate and thesis to support my methodology. While coaching can often feel cathartic Maverick Minds coaching services should not be treated as therapy, counselling, or training.
What does an artist coach do?
Artist coaches work with leaders, managers, teams, and individuals to develop creative confidence, capability, and wellbeing in and out of the workplace. We utilise a range of highly interactive, participatory processes and methodologies, such as drawing, painting, designing, making to help introduce new perspectives and stimulate innovation. It’s an effective process for change, and to get people and businesses thriving.
Got a team to coach?
A gathering of independent and professional creative minds is exciting and potentially challenging when it comes to business decision-making. See how I take on that challenge, helping you and your team stay motivated, make good decisions, and see your business flourish.