The Discovery Package (10 Sessions + Monthly Call) The Ease & Delight Package (20 Sessions + Monthly Call + 2 four-hour retreats + 1 family constellation) Both packages begin with a one and a half hour Foundation Session that sets the stage for the coaching relationship and lets you share Read more…
It’s interesting when, instead of feeling inspired, we feel envy or jealousy. What a great opportunity for growth! Particularly artists, who are often a 4 in the enneagram, are susceptible to jealousy. I work coaching a lot of artists whose main block is comparing themselves to others. And let me tell you: jealousy has not made any of my clients more talented, more brilliant, funnier, or smarter. BUT…
Creativity Workshop Starts January in Oakland! Six to One : Six Weeks to Complete One Creative Project Are you ready to kick your creative work into high gear? Starting in January, and meeting for six weeks, the Six to One course will challenge and hold you to complete your chosen creative goal. Each week, we'll meet, set intentions, Read more…
It’s the gift of us arriving at this moment through telling the story of how we arrived at this moment. It’s grace. It’s power. It’s peace. Own it. And let it go.
These are the qualities you may be experiencing and needing to convey to the audience as you reach the climax or conclusion of your story. And notice how the actual story in some way begins to dissolve as these qualities emerge.
It’s time to be ruthlessly honest with yourself, step aside, and allow your muses to speak through you. And when it goes well, let them take the credit, too. The joy will come, not in hearing the accolades, but in being an instrument for something truly, humanly brilliant that touches people’s hearts and raises the stakes in living their lives fully.
So to recap, Part 1 of "So You Want to Write a One Person Show", I spoke about discovering the Central Moment that your show pivots on. You did free-writing about this pivotal moment and you held it close to your heart, a secret for yourself. Part 2 of Read more…
Have you been letting everyone you know and meet how excited you are and how they can participate?
Have you asked people to support you by helping at the event?
Have you checked on the venue? Have you checked on the people putting together any external part of your project?
Do you have to pay for services? Let people know about your preferences? Have someone host or introduce you? Will other people perform/exhibit/etc at the event?
Have your “creator” hat on while you’re brainstorming, writing, drawing, singing… After your allotted creating time, take off your creator hat, and put on your “appreciator” hat. As the appreciator, you will talk to the creator for a few minutes and let her (or him) know how thankful you are to her for being so open and uncensored.
This is the time for you to create and create and create. Your inner critic is not needed here. Everything you need to create is in you now.
Each time we move up to a higher level of productivity, creativity, or integrity, the part of us that has been stuck can get scared. You can address that part of you by actually talking to it, respecting it’s concerns, and giving it a voice.