Helping Clients as a Creativity Coach
Support and accountability are two of the main services a creativity coach offers to his clients. Support feels like compassion and kindness. If a client has been struggling with out success then they will find it very difficult to support themselves and their self talk can be harsh and un-supportive.
A Creativity Coach is someone you can talk to about your work. You can speak with one about the problems of your fading dreams, about the gap between your dreams and reality. A creativity coach is there to say, “I think you can do it and I’m here to help you” A creativity coach can also offer more practical help and unlike a psychiatrist can get more involved in your (creative) life. Often Creativity Coaches have an area of expertise and may help with certain aspects of the creative profession that you are involved in.
Support can include many things including psychological existential and practical help. It should also be a state of mind and attitude on the part of the Creativity Coach. It could include offering practical help about the market place, help with anxiety or self talk and it could include wider existential issues.
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.
Getting a client to embrace their anxiety is another way a Creativity Coach can be very supportive. Creative anxiety is not often talked about and it’s something that even the most experienced creative might not be aware of.
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