Art making in coaching is about experimentation, exploration, and play. The creative process opens pathways between our unconscious mind and our imagination so that we get to experience ourselves as active participants in life, not just victims of our circumstances. The declared artist benefits from this just as much as the rest of us. Growth and healing happen when we bring unhealthy parts of ourselves into creative dialogues. Our coaching relationship will provide an atmosphere of safety and free play where you will be encouraged to explore the full range of the creative arts: movement, drama, voice, drawing, painting, clay sculpting, poetry and other forms of writing.
We need to create tools to help us cope with life in completely new ways. We often hear of art feeding from someone's life experience, but we can also begin to use our artistic explorations to create a new life for ourselves, use it to open our minds to possibilities we had not seen before, and test them in the safety of an art expression. If the experience makes us happy, then it is time to take that smallest step one week at a time, until we see the fruits of our creativity take root in our lives.
