Creativity Coaching Trainings
Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training
Advanced Creativity Coaching Training
Practice-Building Intensive for Coaches
Dr. Maisel’s Creativity Coaching Trainings are designed to help you become an effective creativity coach. They are also excellent for self-coaching purposes to help you become a more effective creator.
If you are a writer, visual artist, performer, or other creative person you will find these trainings of real use to you. They are also valuable for artists, therapists, counselors, life coaches and other professionals who want to add creativity coaching to their services.
Dr. Maisel offers an Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training and an Advanced Creativity Coaching Training. Each of these trainings is described below.
Dr. Maisel does not certify creativity coaches. The Creativity Coaching Association certifies creativity coaches. CCA employs Dr. Maisel’s trainings to fulfill two of their core requirements. For certification purposes you would take both of Dr. Maisel’s trainings, sequentially or simultaneously. For more information on certification, please visit the Creativity Coaching Association website.
2010 DATES
Starting February 8, 2010
• Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training (16 weeks)
* Advanced Creativity Coaching Training: Coaching Writers, Visual Artists and Performers (16 weeks)
These two trainings can be taken simultaneously
Starting September 6, 2010
• Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training (16 weeks)
* Advanced Creativity Coaching Training: Coaching Writers, Visual Artists and Performers (16 weeks)
These two trainings can be taken simultaneously
If there is sufficient interest there will also be an Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training beginning June 7, 2010
INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVITY COACHING TRAINING
The Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training is a 16-week, email-based training designed to introduce you to creativity coaching and to provide you with the experience of working with creativity coaching clients. You can take this training wherever you live and no special computer skills are necessary, only the ability to send and receive emails. The training is designed to ready you to practice as a creativity coach (although further training is advised).
The training also has a self-coaching emphasis for individuals who want to learn the principles and techniques of creativity coaching and apply them to their own creative life. Many participants do both, using the training to learn about creativity coaching (to see if it interests them) while at the same learning how to make advances in their own creative life.
Participants who are interested in working with clients work with them via email. In the past Dr. Maisel have been able to provide clients, who are coached for free, and participants sometimes recruit their own clients, who can be seen for free or for a fee. Participants receive and respond to weekly lessons and three “free passes” are built into the training for vacations and life emergencies.
This training is a core requirement of the Creativity Coaching Association’s online certification program.
Syllabus
Week 1. Offering Support
Week 2. Contemplating Goals
Week 3. Standing Ready to Coach
Week 4. Considering Clients' History
Week 5. Relating to Clients
Week 6. Conceptualizing Meaningful Projects
Week 7. Reality-testing While Affirming Dreams
Week 8. Making Plans
Week 9. Creating in the Middle of Things
Week 10. Improving Self-Talk
Week 11. Communicating Skillfully
Week 12. Moving Past the Past
Week 13. Envisioning Creators' Career Issues
Week 14. Building a Creativity Coaching Practice
Week 15. Maintaining a Creativity Coaching Practice
Week 16. Maintaining a Creative Life
Cost: $475
Prerequisites: None
Time commitment: depends on the number of clients participants choose to coach. The minimum time requirement is the time needed to reply to 13 of the 16 weekly lessons.
Enrollment: Contact Dr. Maisel at ericmaisel@hotmail.com
ADVANCED CREATIVITY COACHING TRAINING: COACHING WRITERS, VISUAL ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS
The Advanced Creativity Coaching Training: Coaching Writers, Visual Artists, and Performers is a 16-week email-based training for coaches and other helping professionals who want to learn how to effectively coach writers, visual artists and performers. It also serves writers, visual artists and performers who want to learn how to coach themselves.
You can choose between a coaching emphasis and a self-coaching emphasis or you can choose to do some of both. Participants learn the common challenges that writers, visual artists and performers face and how to effectively help clients (and themselves) meet those challenges.
The training is email-based and all you need to participate is email. You can be anywhere in the world, in any time zone, as there are no set meeting times and no need for you to be anywhere at a certain moment. Participants and instructor work together for sixteen weeks in an affinity group where participants post lesson responses, ask questions, and learn from one another and the instructor.
There are two weekly lessons; participants post their responses to a lesson of their choice and learn from the responses of other participants. The instructor pulls three themes from the weekly responses and provides feedback to the group, answering questions and clarifying important coaching and self-coaching issues.
This training is a core requirement of the Creativity Coaching Association’s online certification program.
Syllabus
Week 1
Coaching Writers Module
• Creativity Coaching Overview
• Cracking Through Resistance
Week 2
• Picking and Protecting Your Writing Space
• Honoring Your Writing Space
Week 3
• Achieving Right Mind
• Achieving Right Emotions
Week 4
• Understanding the Writing/Culture Relationship
• Using Your Existential Intelligence
Week 5
• Navigating the Writer’s Craft
• Exerting Positive Influence
Week 6
• Handling the Weight of Individuality
• Conceptualizing Publishing Connections
Week 7
Coaching Visual Artists Module
• Understanding Art and Identity
• Engaging in Personality Trait Work
Week 8
• World Building and Rekindling Desire
• Managing Blank Canvas Anxiety
Week 9
• Conceptualizing Meaning and Subject Matter
• Mindfully Dealing with Circumstances
Week 10
• Understanding the Artist/Culture Relationship
• Navigating the Artist’s Craft
Week 11
• Making Choices
• Considering Art-Making as Calling
Week 12
• Fathoming Marketplace Relationships
• Working Deeply
Week 13
Coaching Performers Module
• Introducing Performers’ Issues
• Understanding Performance Pressure
Week 14
• Managing Performance Anxiety I
• Managing Performance Anxiety II
Week 15
• Conceptualizing Performers’ Relationships
• Understanding Career Issues
Week 16
• Creating a Performance Practice
• Coaching Writers, Visual Artsist and Peformers
Cost: $475 ($175 if you have previously taken the Coaching Writers Training, Coaching Visual Artists Training, or Coaching Performers Training; $375 if you have previously taken or are simultaneously taking the Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training)
Prerequisites: None
Time commitment: Typically a minimum of 2 – 4 hours a week
Work commitment: completion of 13 (of 16) lesson responses
Enrollment: contact Dr. Maisel at ericmaisel@hotmail.com
BECOMING A FREE CLIENT
If you would like to participate in the Introduction to Creativity Coaching training as a free client and receive sixteen weeks of free email creativity coaching, please provide me with the following information: one paragraph about you (your name, where you live, the art discipline you work in, etc.) and one paragraph about what you would like to work on with a creativity coach. Send that information along to me in the body of an email. When I receive your information I will put you in the client pool for the next training. If a coach selects you, you will hear from your coach during the first week of the training. More than two thousand artists have availed themselves of this opportunity over the past several years.
NOTE: This free client opportunity is offered for the Introduction to Creativity Coaching training only. For the advanced training, coaches who intend to work with clients recruit their own clients and free clients are not provided.
TRAINING ENDORSEMENTS
The following are some endorsements of Dr. Maisel’s trainings.
"Eric Maisel is an inspired coach and teacher. He is extremely knowledgeable and shares his knowledge generously in a focused and practical way. I've just completed another training with him and as always, I am amazed not only at how much I've learned for use with my own clients and students, but how expansive my own writing and creative process have become!"
-- Susan Borkin, M.A., Take Good Notes: The Healing Power of Writing
“I have learned more by participating in this advanced training than I have in many of my graduate classes. Eric Maisel is supportive and insightful, and the training provides material and exercises that are both practical and thought-provoking. I was able to learn and communicate by email with so many interesting and supportive people who broadened my perspective on creativity and what it means to live a creative life. I highly recommend the training to all artists and those interested in creativity coaching as a profession.”
-- Mandi Batolo
"The many things I learned in the advanced training were immediately useful to me both as a writer and a writing coach. As a writer, I finally faced and got over my most hardened resistances. For the first time in my life I'm writing on a regular basis. Also, I put many of Eric's coaching insights to immediate use in my coaching practice, helping each of my clients significantly."
-- David Storer
"This online creativity course has already been an adventure and it's only been two weeks! I've learned so much about myself, about creativity, and about how I can help unblock it in myself and in others. As a coach, I feel like I have a safety net around me — if I make a mistake with a client, I have the support of other coaches-in-training, plus the support of a guiding expert (Eric) to witness it all. I still haven't decided if I want to do creativity coaching for life, but I'm beginning to increase my confidence through this course that I can help others unleash their creativity."
-- Sylvia in Chicago
"Learning Creativity Coaching from Eric Maisel has been an eye-opener for me. I discovered how satisfying it is to support people as they pursue creative goals. Also, I learned that coaching by e-mail is much more effective than I had imagined. The e-mail teaching format works very well. Maisel generously shares what he's learned from his extensive experience coaching artists. The support from fellow students, as well as Maisel, has been heart-warming and inspires confidence. The opportunity to work with real clients throughout the training period is invaluable. Without it, I might never have discovered how rewarding it is to do this work. With the help of this class, I've found what I've been searching for."
-- Jan in Santa Clara
"The advanced training was rich in practical gifts, full of hands-on learning, creative assignments and great insights. Eric has a great way of making it all challenging and interesting. Working with clients as the weeks progressed and using what was appropriate or interesting for them made a great learning circle for everyone. This was a fabulous opportunity for me to enhance my coaching skills and learn practical new tips for my clients. I learned so much more about coaching and, as a bonus, about my own creative process. The training was rewarding as all of Eric's training programs have been. Thank you, Eric!"
-- Pamela Yates
“The two trainings I've taken on-line with Eric have both been extremely worthwhile experiences for me in terms of working with clients and also in terms of being a better coach to myself. The advanced training was particularly valuable for me on a personal level as I have had difficulties restarting my mixed media artwork. Taking the course put things into a clear perspective and helped me make that final push to get back to my own ideas. I completed several projects during the course of the 16 weeks, but the one that was the most significant to me was starting back on a large piece I had abandoned a couple years ago. Eric loves what he is doing and is an extremely generous instructor and I look forward to taking more of his courses in the future.”
-- Jill Jones
"What more can I say than that after 16 weeks of participating in the advanced training I am really sorry to see it end. As a writer with a day job and other serious duties competing for my time, having the structure of this on-line communication with Eric and the many other writers with similar issues has been invaluable. From the personal to the public, we've looked at a full spectrum of the struggles we face as people driven to create. Just engaging in this process has been comforting for me, and cognitively I've learned skills and gained information that I didn't have before. Eric has a unique understanding of what makes creative people tick (or not), and coupling this with a practical knowledge of the creative world, both inner and outer, he provided an enjoyable and useful learning experience."
-- Denise Beck-Clark, Concurrent Sentences:
A True Story of Murder, Love and Redemption
“I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the advanced course that I just completed. I feel like I got what I most hoped for, which is a huge increase in my artistic output. The assignments you sent out, along with your comments helped me to be much more ambitious about what I might achieve with my artwork. I worked through a number of internal excuses for not doing my art, and I was comforted by the fact that I shared so many of the same struggles with the other members of our group. The online format worked very well. I have been a great fan of your writings on the subject of creativity for a number of years, so my expectations for the class were high. The new ways I've been applying my creativity in the past few months are a clear validation of the effectiveness of your method. And my creative boost has not been limited to my art making. I have a lot of new ideas for the courses I teach, and I have experienced an explosion of ideas in both products and marketing ideas for my product design business. I have encouraged a number of friends to take one of your courses, and I believe that doing so would be an efficient way for anyone to give their creative output a lift."
-- Michael Kieley
“Last week I completed your advanced training and I want you to know how valuable the sixteen weeks have been for me. The course was helpful on two fronts. Firstly, even though I have a 20-year-long writing career and have published several books, I still struggle. I finally began to understand this existential process as your extraordinary psychological insights unfolded each week. Your replies to each participant’s assignment responses were exceedingly enlightening and, quite miraculously, every individual reply resonated among ALL participants. Perhaps the best lesson of all has been the privilege of watching you ‘walk your talk’ through your generosity of spirit, commitment to process, and exemplary model as a creative. Thank you for helping me to transform, so deeply and permanently, my relationship with my writing.”
-- Cathleen Rountree, Ph.D., The Writer’s Mentor: A Guide to Putting Passion on Paper
"After reading about Eric and his efforts to begin a new Creativity Coaching discipline, I attended a speech he gave to the Romance Writers of America in Emeryville, California. I was intrigued by what he had to say and also excited to find a discipline totally devoted to helping the creative-minded. I signed up for the Creativity Coaching Course, a sixteen-week introduction to creativity coaching. Being a writer myself, I then signed on for his Advanced Training. Both experiences have been worthwhile. Eric provided a structure for thinking about creativity and the tools I needed to communicate with clients and to help them find their way to living the creative lives they want. I am so glad my friend invited me to Eric's inspirational talk. Otherwise, I might not have discovered this great new career."
-- Barbara Millman Cole
CEUs (Continuing Education Units) may be available.
Please check with the Creativity Coaching Association on the availability of CEUs for these trainings.
16 hours of continuing education credit for California licensed marriage and family therapists, California licensed clinical social workers, and California nurses may be available for The Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training and 16 hours of continuing education credit may be available for the Advanced Creativity Coaching Training: Coaching Writers, Visual Artists, and Performers. If your state or locale has a reciprocal arrangement with California, you may also be entitled to these CEUs (you will need to check).
Check with the Creativity Coaching Association who, with the Pine Mountain Institute, is the sponsoring organization. There is a $50 charge for CEUs, paid directly to the Creativity Coaching Association. According to CCA, these trainings meet qualifications for (16/12) continuing education credit for MFT's and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences through the Pine Mountain Institute, Provider #2309 and for RN's: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses for (16/12) contact hours, Provider #13577.
Practice-Building Intensive for Coaches
The Practice-Building Intensive Training is for coaches who are committed to building their practice. This is a 12-week intensive training focused on branding, creating products, securing partners and other crucial aspects of building a coaching practice. The training is comprised of group work and individual work with Dr. Maisel (individual half-hour phone sessions every two weeks).
Curriculum
1. The Requirements of Practice-Building
2. Conceptualizing Your Niche and Your Brand
3. Creating Services and Packages
4. Creating Products
5. Describing Your Services, Packages and Products
6. Conceptualizing Your Website
7. Conceptualizing Your Workshops, Classes and Books
8. Speaking in the World
9. Looking For and Securing Partners
10. Looking For and Securing Clients
11. Building a File of Queries and Responses
12. Creating Your Daily Plan and Your One-Year Plan
Time commitment: 10 – 15 hours weekly
Cost: $750
Dates:
PBI starting January 4, 2010
PBI starting July 12, 2010
PBI starting October 11, 2010
To enroll contact Dr. Maisel at ericmaisel@hotmail.com |
