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Creativity can be messy

but that doesn't mean

​your life has to be

Coaching helps you:
- balance work and life
- reduce stress and anxiety
- stay connected to your creative core
​- increase productivity

and generally

Get out of your own way

so you can create

Creativity Coaching + Life Coaching for Creatives



​Live with Meaning, Purpose and Balance

​In a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere coaching can help you:
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  • manage doubt, anxiety, fear and overwhelm

  • develop positive self talk in the face of your inner critic. 

  • overcome creative blocks and find the courage to leap into your passion.  

  • remain centered through mindfulness and enhance your ability to create under stress.
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  • facilitate a balance between the pleasure of process with the need for product.
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​Coaching can assist you to identify and manage life factors that may be pulling you away from creativity.

Perhaps your financial responsibilities are drowning out your creative voice.

Perhaps work and family obligations are exhausting your energy.

​Perhaps an interpersonal conflict is depleting your focus.
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​The power of coaching comes from enhanced self-knowledge.

Through using tools like the Enneagram, coaching can

re-connect you to your creative core and

illuminate the ways you block or dissipate your creative power. 


In this way coaching can

inspire you,

                                     give you new skills,

​                                                                             nourish your passion.

Project Support


Support for Your Unique Vision

​No matter your medium or stage of project, coaching can help you manifest your vision.
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​Anxiety

uncertainty

overwhelm

are common for most creatives.


​But there is no reason to allow them to block your creativity
​ or keep you from getting started in the first place. 

Project support coaching can help you:

gain clarity

reconnect with purpose

get unstuck

​reignite your creative spark


​It is amazing what can be accomplished with a little support!

Entrepreneurship for Creatives


Start or Grow Your Creative Business


​​Whether you are

starting a new creative venture or

stabilizing or expanding an existing one

coaching helps you to

define a unique strategy for

actualizing your creative work

​in ways that works for you.

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​Entrepreneurship coaching supports you to create a plan for your creative business and be able to clearly communicate it to others.
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If you are an introverted writer we will find ways to reach success that do not include activities like public speaking.

If you love engaging with people but have difficulty focusing we will find ways to successfully plan and complete tasks.

If you feel constantly overwhelmed we will work on project management and time management skills.

If you are horrible at bookkeeping we will find you the resources to successfully run your business.

​Choose from one of the programs that step you through everything you need for starting and running your own creative venture or design your own coaching package to create a program that is tailored to your specific needs.

Creativity Strategized!

The Creativity Strategized! program runs for 12 weeks. At the end of the program you will have a full plan for your creative business and be able to clearly communicate it to others through a Vision Statement, Mission Statement and Business Map Canvas (tools that are standard in the world of business). 

​We start by exploring who you are and what you want. What are you passionate about? What are you good at? What do you value? From there we define a unique strategy for actualizing your creative work in a way that works for you.
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Once we have a vision for where you want to go we start to plan for how to get there. What aspects of your life, your personality, your work are affecting your ability to earn income from you art? How do you stay inspired in the face of business and creative challenges?
 
We also look strategically. What makes your work unique compared to similar creatives? Is there anything in the environment that could jeopardize the success of your project or practice?
 
We then create a type of business plan that places your work solidly in the market so that you can earn income from your work. To do this we ask: How do others relate to your work? What are the myriad of ways your fans can financially support your work? Who can you bring on your team? (You may be surprised to find partners and collaborators who would be overjoyed to assist manifest your vision.) 

Why use Coaching?
You can't see your blind spots.

You can't see your assumptions.

Your habits are invisible to you.

Your fears hide in your subconscious.
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And your feelings just make a mess of everything.
A life coach helps to make visible the invisible​. A coach will catch you as you fall in to sabotaging habits and give you instant feedback, will keep you moving forward by helping you to maintain your inspiration and motivation, and will keep you mindful and living in choice as you create a life that is truly worth living.

There is no 1,2,3 process to leading a creative life. Each of us is unique. Each of our ways of being are unique and each of the ways we get in our own way are unique. A life coach partners with you to ease and quicken the journey toward your vision of a creative life well lived.
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This is how I coach. Not as a bubbly cheerleader, but as a partner who befriends the highest part of you as well as the parts of you that you have kept hidden away from the light; and as an accountability partner who is also your enthusiastic advocate along the road to wholeness.

Why work with me?

I became a certified life coach after I experienced the power of coaching for myself - it helped me to move from just thinking about how things could be better to actually changing my life.
I just needed a bit of assistance in 
getting out of my own way 
and 
​accountability to actually show up for myself.
Certified Professional Integrative Coach
Read Ali's Bio
I am a Certified Professional Integrative Coach having graduated from an ICF certified program at the PCC level. 

My life in the arts started with  a BFA followed by a MA & MBA in Arts Administration. I received micro-entrepreneurial training and has run my own successful micro-business since 2002. I worked for a state arts council creating programming and oversaw their grant making process, and I have applied for her own artistic grants.

Creatively I have a background in photography, theater, performance art, ceramics and glassblowing, and am a published writer. I have some level of experience with most art forms.

Who gets the most out of working with me?

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​If you are committed to your personal development and taking action to improve your life.

If you are comfortable with being challenged and with receiving honest feedback.

If you are curious and open to new perspectives and possibilities

If you desire to be of help to others.

If you believe that your self-development will improve your positive impact on the world.
"Through kindness and honesty, Ali gave me new perspectives on my art and the business that I am creating from it. She helped me organize my thoughts.
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-  Ben, Chattanooga TN
"Ali helped me unearth some things that are probably obvious from the outside, but weren't to me. She asked the right questions, and said: Whoa, let's back up and listen again to something you just said. Which is what I needed."
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- Rachel, Atlanta, GA
"I have become more outgoing and seen the benefits of putting myself out there.  I think I’ve overcome some fears of meeting new people and potentially failing in front of them (in terms of my creative work). Ali helped me hone in on what my real problems were and helped me develop plans to confront them and change things for the better."
 
- Marc, Los Angeles, CA
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