Transform Your Life with Creative Coaching
Creativity coaching is a form of coaching that focuses on helping individuals enhance their creativity and achieve their creative goals. Creativity coaches work with clients to overcome blocks, generate new ideas, develop creative habits, and navigate the creative process more effectively.
Here are some key aspects of creativity coaching:
- Identifying goals: Creativity coaches work with clients to clarify their creative goals, whether it's completing a creative project, overcoming creative blocks, or developing a more consistent creative practice.
- Overcoming blocks: Creativity coaches help clients identify and overcome obstacles that may be inhibiting their creativity. This could include fear of failure, perfectionism, self-doubt, or external distractions.
- Generating ideas: Coaches may use various techniques to help clients generate new ideas and think outside the box. This could involve brainstorming exercises, exploring different perspectives, or experimenting with different creative techniques.
- Developing habits: Creativity coaches assist clients in establishing habits and routines that support their creative endeavors. This might include setting aside dedicated time for creativity, creating a conducive environment, or establishing rituals that help stimulate creativity.
- Providing accountability: Coaches help clients stay accountable to their creative goals by setting deadlines, tracking progress, and providing support and encouragement along the way.
- Offering feedback: Coaches provide constructive feedback on clients' creative work, helping them refine their ideas, improve their skills, and develop their unique creative voice.
- Navigating the creative process: Creativity coaches help clients navigate the ups and downs of the creative process, offering guidance and support through challenges and setbacks.
Overall, creativity coaching is about empowering individuals to tap into their innate creativity, overcome obstacles, and bring their creative visions to life. It can be beneficial for artists, writers, musicians, entrepreneurs, or anyone looking to unleash their creative potential.
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Services:
30 Minute Consultation: Free
$120.00 One hour fifteen minute session via Zoom
Events
January 2024:
Attended the NLP Global Leadership Summit in Santa Cruz, California (see cover photo). The Summit is a meeting of the foremost thinkers and innovators of Neuro Linguistics.
December 2023
The Ericksonian Psychotherapy Conference in Anaheim California
Traing with Robert Dilts, Stephen Gilligan and Derald Wing-Sue
July 2023
Trauma Informed Yoga Class with Department of Social Work CSULA
January 2020
Restorative Yoga Certification (for healing and recovery from chronic illness)
Thank you letters
Dear Lisa,
I am writing to thank you for helping me and my husband work through our problems last year. We were in such a bad place with our marriage. I hated his family and cried all the time. Since seeing you I have bridged (like you always say) a relationship with my mother in law and am finding we really are not THAT different after all. I have 2 new hobbies knitting and fishing. Yes, fishing!! I like it because it includes family and adventure renting boats and visiting lakes and I also have some “me time” with my knitting projects. I joined a knitting club! Here’s a picture and small present to thank you.
Sarah
Dear Ms. Newman,
Our son ____ was falling apart and you have helped him so much. We really were skeptical about your methods but the changes in his mood happened almost instantly. He is now a senior and actually wants to go to college. He still talks about you visiting him in the hospital and the stories you told him. he is going to study marine biology. What do you think about that? he says life is like is a big aquarium!
Merry Christmas and Happy 2017
The M Family
Education, Licensure and Certification
Certified Restorative Yoga Instructor 2020
Certified Master NeuroLinguistic Programmer/Practitioner, 2015, 1997
California State University, Long Beach, 1997, Master of Social Work
California State University, Long Beach, 1995, Bachelor of Social Work
Certified Life Coach 2015 International Association of Life Coaches.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Life Coaching and how is it different than therapy?
Two main ways Coaching is different than therapy is in time frame and focus. Life Coaching is future oriented therapy focuses on the past and why things are like they are. Coaching does not focus on the past so you can gain insight into your own actions. Coaching focuses on well formulated outcomes and moves in that direction. For example: client says, "I'm sad all the time." A therapist may ask questions about parenting, sibling structure and memories from the past. A Life Coach will say when was the last time you were happy and what was going on then? The session will proceed intuit direction.
Do you need to have a degree or certificate to be a Life Coach?
The answer is no and some coaches do not. Most coaches however, have been trained in some modality such as hypnosis, NLP, EFT, EMDR or CBT. I suggest finding Coaches who offer a free consultation and listen to what plan they have for you. Every Coach is different and that is good news because every person is different. Before Coaching, you only had the option of your insurance and using whomever they approved and problems are not a"one size fits all" model. So now, with the advent of Life Coaching, you can find an expert who can specifically create a plan to meet your needs emotionally and financially and usually with a full or partial money back guarantee.
Can we have sessions via SKYPE, Zoom or FaceTime?
Yes, I have access to all of those but I need to see your body and how you are sitting so I need you to have a screen bigger than your phone. I may even have you move around or adjust yourself during a session. If it is couples or family coaching then I need to have the group together in person.
Where is your office located?
I share office space in Claremont, Chino and Pomona California and work via SKYPE, Zoom and FaceTime across any timezone.
The Coaching Methods Used
Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP)
Clinical Social Work/ Satir Global
Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP)
NLP is the science of how we structure and utilize information. It incorporates language patterns with neurobiological processes and sensory-based interventions to advance behavior-modification changes designed to help improve the client’s self-awareness, communication skills, and social actions. NLP is used by professional athletes to i
NLP is the science of how we structure and utilize information. It incorporates language patterns with neurobiological processes and sensory-based interventions to advance behavior-modification changes designed to help improve the client’s self-awareness, communication skills, and social actions. NLP is used by professional athletes to imagine future success and then create strategies for achieving those goals.
Ericksonian Hypnosis
Clinical Social Work/ Satir Global
Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP)
Dr. Erickson was the first to formulate clinical hypnosis (very different from stage hypnosis) in the 1950's. His method seeks to utilize whatever the patient brings to the session and find the strengths that the client already possesses and use these strengths to build positive,healthy behaviors. Hypnosis incorporates light trance state
Dr. Erickson was the first to formulate clinical hypnosis (very different from stage hypnosis) in the 1950's. His method seeks to utilize whatever the patient brings to the session and find the strengths that the client already possesses and use these strengths to build positive,healthy behaviors. Hypnosis incorporates light trance states or a feeling of relaxation that calms defenses that can sometimes block the very change the client is seeking.
Clinical Social Work/ Satir Global
Clinical Social Work/ Satir Global
Clinical Social Work/ Satir Global
Clinical Social Work requires a masters degree plus 3200 hours of working with clients in a supervised therapeutic capacity. The clinical model used was advanced by Virginia Satir and is referred to as the Humanistic Model. It utilizes a client's strengths and considers the person in the environment as an interconnected whole. Satir's leg
Clinical Social Work requires a masters degree plus 3200 hours of working with clients in a supervised therapeutic capacity. The clinical model used was advanced by Virginia Satir and is referred to as the Humanistic Model. It utilizes a client's strengths and considers the person in the environment as an interconnected whole. Satir's legacy of family therapy continues to be taught today through Satir Global and Virginia's student intern, ninety-seven year old Maria Gamori, LCSW.