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Coaching for Creative Achievement
Visual Arts Writing Performing Arts Creative Crafts Creative Businesses
You may be an established creative professional or someone desperate to fulfil a creative dream. Pathways Creative is dedicated to those who wish to begin a new creative challenge
or vastly improve their proficiency, output or earnings
in an already established field. Whatever your situation, Pathways Creative is committed to helping you find and maintain the gift of inspiration, joy and excitement
that the expression of your creative self brings.
And it is about dealing with the complications of life that get in the way – the blocks and barriers, family and business pressures, the inhibitions of yourself and the lack of understanding of others.
'Working with Andrew has allowed me to pursue a long-cherished personal creative project. I have made fantastic progress in a short space of time. He combines logical and intuitive guidance that allows me to find the necessary inner resources and focus.'
Danny Broderick, Course Tutor of the Writing Squad, and Associate Lecturer in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
- Transform your hobby into a business
- Get started! Clear the obstacles, make choices and finally do it
- Already established in your field? Become more successful
- Get serious about your art or craft. Set and achieve inspiring goals
- Beat the blocks
- Understand your underlying artistic themes. What’s your work really about?
- Get the rest of your life working better
- Actually plan your way forward & visualise the outcome – if you want more energy and motivation, this may be the answer
- Unleash your imagination and creative thinking
'Andy’s coaching freed me up by helping me to finally understand what my painting and sculpture is all about. I can now talk about my art with confidence and have produced more in three months than in the previous three years!'
L L, Painter & Sculptor, Sheffield
How does Pathways Creative coaching work for you?
Good coaching is naturally a creative process. It encourages you to find creative options where previously you saw none. It enables you to visualise outcomes, to see the world from perspectives other than your own, to find clarity about your feelings and an understanding of your motivations. And as a result of doing all that – it empowers you to achieve what you want to achieve and to live how you want to live.
All of this is of itself part of a creative process – because if redesigning and reshaping your life isn’t creative, then what is?
So, what is the difference between my ‘mainstream’ coaching and ‘Pathways Creative ’ coaching?
The answer is simply one of focus.
The whole of the coaching process is primarily focused on you achieving your creative needs and desires. But this is done by taking the rest of your life into account too. You may simply need to find focus and motivation – or there may be bigger challenges – anything from starting and completing a novel, to building a creativity based business.
Whatever, the overall goal is for you to find a fulfilling route to creative productivity.
How can Pathways Creative help you?
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'Working with Andrew as my life coach has certainly exceeded my expectations. I approached Andrew with a business project that I was struggling with. For two years I had been trying to write a sales book but was being limited by lack of time, personal motivation and ideas. Andrew’s positive encouraging and result orientated coaching gave the guidance I needed to achieve success. Each coaching session is enjoyable and supportive yet focuses on setting clear workable targets. I have no doubt that without Andrew as my life coach my book would still be just a dream instead of in the hands of a publisher.'
Ruth Langley
Pink Orchid (award winning salon) Author of Beautiful Selling
Partly the power of coaching comes from what it’s not: it’s not teaching or tutoring and it’s not someone giving you ‘advice’, or worse, just telling you what they think you should be doing.
Instead coaching helps you access and clarify your own deep understanding of yourself and your needs. It helps you identify the things that free you up to be at your best, and the fears, doubts and barriers that freeze you solid. Perhaps most important of all – it empowers you as a decision maker and an action taker.
The results
Here are a few examples of the specific achievements you may be looking for:
Art
A completed series of paintings
An exhibition of your work
Selling your work more often and for more money
Becoming a professional artist
Rekindling your enthusiasm and drive for your profession
Writing
Hone your skills
Work through the complexities of plotting, structure and character
Get the support, encouragement and belief to complete (novels, scripts, collections)
Organise and plan to make it happen
Performance
Parts/roles/gigs – do more to get them
– focus your practice
– visualise success
'At a time when I had a chronic illness, coaching helped me re-establish my creative focus. I moved from being blocked to producing a sustained series of paintings. I have now uncovered my own personal style and clarified the themes that really motivate me. [name withheld for confidentiality]
I'm happy to discuss your creative dreams and challenges, and how coaching might help you achieve them, in a free, no-obligation coaching consultation. Simply fill in the form below and I'll contact you by phone to arrange a good time. Alternatively, you can give me a call on 0114 2486554 or 0845 6444486.