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Art in Coaching Blog, with industry and creative thinking, along with blogs about coaching ideas, concepts and artistic themes. Creating deep transformational shifts in personal meaning and understanding, using art to coach life and business
Art in Coaching
4M ago
The biggest barrier to getting started with Creative Reflective Journaling is the fear of the bank page. You’ve just bought yourself a journal or sketchbook and it is full of the most beautiful pristine white pages. The thought of making a mark, getting it wrong and making a mess can stop you in your tracks.... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
4M ago
As coaches we are encouraged, if not expected, to have a formal reflective practice as part of our ongoing development and growth, ensuring we continue to provide a professional and positive service for our clients. But as I declared in my blog Is my reflective practice good enough? I have struggled with this and have... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
5M ago
Is my reflective practice good enough? is a question I have asked myself many times over my years of coaching and supervision and my answer was always no, I always felt it was inadequate. I have never been able to settle to writing out my reflective practice. Sitting down with that laptop or journal and... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
In this blog I want to explain what I mean when I talk about art-based coaching and therefore why I feel it has such an important place in coaching. As a coach who paints, I firmly believe that art has an important role in coaching as it deepens and enriches our coaching conversations with our... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
Here are four creative exercises using your hands and feet as your painting instruments that literally enable you to get in touch with your creativity. These exercises free you from the constraints of your working and daily lives. Playful, fun and absorbing they allow you to recharge and reconnect, whilst also offering you the opportunity... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
One of the most frequent questions I get asked about using art in group coaching, is how to introduce it. In this blog, I look at the different approaches you can take to introducing art into group coaching, and what to consider when choosing the most appropriate approach for your group and your group coaching... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
Creative emotional expressions Creating art enables us to connect to and express our emotions and then manage them and, if we need to, to let them go. If we ignore our emotions and what they are telling us, we can find ourselves disconnected with who we are which can lead to increased levels of stress... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
Connecting to your creative energy is one way of practising self-care and renew your energy as a helping professional. Making art can give you a space to set aside your concerns and worries, immerse yourself in an activity that is both relaxing and challenging, and rediscover the joy (and fun) of making something by hand.... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
How often do you make time for yourself, reconnecting with yourself and renew your mind, body and spirit? As coaches we give a lot of ourselves to others, supporting clients to make positive changes to their lives, achieve success and enhance their wellbeing. Over the pandemic the areas our clients bring have been increasingly... Read more »
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Art in Coaching
1y ago
“Even though we’re working with very serious things, it’s a joyful, playful space to work and very powerful” I was delighted to be invited to start off the Association for Coaches podcast series Let’s Make Coaching Creative’ led by Maxine Bell. Maxine and I explore what art-based coaching practice is and why it is such... Read more »
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