Coaching Details
After our Welcome Call, you’ll have a sense of how you want us to work together in the way that serves you.
Where are you with your creative life?
Coaching takes place in the space between you and me. During our time together, we let the rest of the world pause, and we devote our shared energy to you and your creative work. What happens in that space can be powerful. This work is not therapy, and I am not a therapist. Coaching supports your process with focused attention, pertinent questions, and practical ideas.
What do we talk about?
Some areas that often arise include:
- Making the time in your day and week to follow through on projects that are important, not urgent.
- Changing habits that no longer serve.
- Discerning which resistant inner voices are worthy of attention (and which ones aren’t even yours – and can be let go).
- Realigning your creative purpose when life happens; making necessary course corrections while maintaining momentum.
- Planning and queuing up projects.
- Selecting tools and methods of working that support you and your life.
- Celebrating your successes – all of them.
I like to say that, as my coaching client, you’re not accountable to me. Instead, I’m at your side as a witness, supporting you to be accountable to your creative self.
What’s in it for you?
- In the shared space between us, it’s possible for me to sense what you’re capable of – sometimes before you feel free to do so yourself.
- Knowing that someone is paying attention – and cares about your work – creates a safer space where you can experiment and explore.
- When you engage in coaching, you’re able to follow through on your intentions and to draw on your powerful creative energies.
- The practices and techniques you develop during coaching will stay with you and become part of your creative toolkit.
What happens?
- In one-to-one sessions (usually via Zoom or telephone), we turn your experience around, from struggle to insight to action (and even joy).
- During an ongoing coaching relationship, I’ll remind you that your creative life matters and is worthy of support.
- I provide email support so you can ask questions, float ideas, and share news when you like.
Commit to meeting at regular intervals. Or set up coaching sessions when you feel the need.
With Creativity Coaching, we:
- Identify your strengths. (Have you observed that we can’t always see what we’re good at?)
- Notice your stuckness, challenges, or fears.
- Refine or rework your plans.
- Resolve what needs resolution.
So that you:
- Grow the confidence to go to your deeper creative zone.
- Regain your focus.
- Get back to work, refreshed.
Anne Carley hears order and sees solutions in a jumble of ideas and half-thoughts — which is always how my most important meanderings emerge. She is able to reflect back to me wisdom I didn’t know I had, along with hard-earned but gently delivered wisdom of her own. Her advice doesn’t seem like the typical “do this, do that,” because Anne’s approach is subtle and full of insight. I sense her deep respect both for where I am — now — and where I have the potential to be. That allows me to “be here now” but also to dream big. —Claire Elizabeth Cameron, PhD
Thanks for your continued support, and just being there consistently. —AL
I have found Anne’s coaching to be truly supportive. Her enthusiasm and warmth have been especially welcome when I am hardest on myself. Over and over she has helped me understand how things I am already doing and various creative outputs in other directions can be repurposed and/or reframed to help build my writer’s platform. —Roger Tolle
You make me feel I am better than I believe I am. —DL
Thank you, Anne. I am having more fun. Receiving your guidance has been great! I so appreciate your help. —RB
Anne Carley helped me focus on the readers I wanted to reach, and encouraged me to include the rich details – like vignettes, sights and smells, and cultural context. Now that I’m receiving feedback from readers, I can see how effective Anne’s coaching has been, giving my book the impact that I intended. —Bruce R. Dorey, author, LIFT: The Nature and Craft of Expert Coaching
Anne will get you where you need to go, and she does it with the utmost care, concern, and a supportive smile. —FF
Anne Carley will light a fire under you and come up with realistic deadlines and a workflow that is organized and doable. She knows how to “chunk” a project down into pieces that make it work and help you overcome procrastination. Once you get rolling, your progress will be palpable and you’ll discover you really do have time to get it all done. —Bobbie Jo Lieberman, author, Sassy Salad Secrets
Creativity Coaching – 45 Minutes
One session at a time $155 US
Five 45-minute sessions $700 US
It all begins with a Welcome Call – book it with the button below!
Confidentiality
Although I love when a client wants to tell the world about the value of creativity coaching with me, it’s always the client’s decision. I will not tell people we are working together without your explicit permission, nor will I share the content of our conversations with others.
From time to time, I may refer to anecdotes and stories from past clients if they can be useful to the present situation. Rest assured that key details are altered and individuals are anonymized so that recognizing actual people and/or their issues would be impossible.
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Join the Anne Carley Creative List
Join up to receive occasional emails about the artist's life - plus first dibs when new courses are offered.
Bonus - When you join you'll receive a link to download Seven Journaling Prompts for #becomingunstuck. Choose a prompt and grab a pen to give yourself a quick creative boost.
Type in your email, click Join, and you'll be on the list.