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I offer a variety of trainings and personally lead all of the trainings. The trainings are designed to help you become an effective creativity coach and 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 my trainings of real use to you. These trainings are also valuable for therapists, counselors, life coaches and other professionals who want to add creativity coaching to their services. I offer an introduction to creativity coaching training, a coaching writers training, a coaching visual artists training, and a coaching performers training. Each of the trainings is explained below. I do not certify creativity coaches. The Creativity Coaching Association certifies creativity coaches. CCA employs my trainings to fulfill a number of their core requirements. As part of their certification program, they accept my introduction to creativity coaching training and my specialized trainings. For certification purposes you would take the introductory training and either the writers training, the visual artists training, or the performers training. For more information on their requirements for certification, please visit the Creativity Coaching Association website.
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My introduction to creativity coaching training prepares you to launch yourself as a creativity coach. The introductory training in conjunction with one or more of my specialized trainings will give you a solid basis as a creativity coach. Some of you will want to continue your training through courses offered by the Creativity Coaching Association and to continue on through the certification process that CCA offers. The 2008 and 2009 dates for my trainings are as follows: |
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Starting February 11, 2008: UPDATE! Due to the amount of interest, there will also be an additional Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training starting June 16, 2008. Please contact Eric Maisel at ericmaisel@hotmail.com if you are interested in participating in this training. Starting September 8, 2008: Starting February 9, 2009: Starting September 8, 2009: 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. 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 I 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; three “free passes” are built into the training for vacations and life emergencies. Syllabus Cost: $475 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 in all the disciplines 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 other trainings, coaches who intend to work with clients recruit their own clients and free clients are not provided. Coaching Writers Training Participants learn the common challenges that writers face and how to effectively help writers (and help themselves) meet those challenges. You will learn concrete coaching strategies for helping writers maintain motivation, choose among writing projects, write regularly and deeply, quiet negative self-talk, connect with the writing marketplace, and more. Syllabus 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 the twelve weeks in an affinity group (a free yahoo group) where participants check in, post lesson responses, ask questions, and learn from one another and the instructor. There is a weekly lesson; participants post their responses when they are ready and learn from the responses of other participants. The instructor pulls themes from the weekly responses and provides feedback to the group, answering questions and clarifying important coaching and self-coaching issues. To successfully complete the training, participants need to complete 10 of 12 lessons; 2 “free passes” are built in for vacations and life emergencies. Lessons can be turned in late (including after the training ends) as a second hedge against the busyness of life. The time commitment varies according to your level of interest, how much attention you pay to your classmate’s responses, the length of your lesson responses, and so on, with the minimum being a few hours each week. Please see the endorsements below to get a sense of how participants have experienced this training. Coaching Visual Artists Training Participants learn the common challenges that visual artists face and how to effectively help artists (and help themselves) meet those challenges. You will learn concrete coaching strategies for helping visual artists maintain motivation, choose among creative projects, create regularly and deeply, quiet negative self-talk, evaluate their art path, connect with the art marketplace, and more. Syllabus 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 the twelve weeks in an affinity group (a free yahoo group) where participants check in, post lesson responses, ask questions, and learn from one another and the instructor. There is a weekly lesson; participants post their responses when they are ready and learn from the responses of other participants. The instructor pulls themes from the weekly responses and provides feedback to the group, answering questions and clarifying important coaching and self-coaching issues. To successfully complete the training, participants need to complete 10 of 12 lessons; 2 “free passes” are built in for vacations and life emergencies. Lessons can be turned in late (including after the training ends) as a second hedge against the busyness of life. The time commitment varies according to your level of interest, how much attention you pay to your classmate’s responses, the length of your lesson responses, and so on, with the minimum being a few hours each week. Please see the endorsements below to get a sense of how participants have experienced this training. Coaching Performers Training Participants learn the common challenges that performers face and how to effectively help performers (and help themselves) meet those challenges. You learn concrete coaching strategies for helping performers deal with performance anxiety, work effectively in groups (like bands, theater companies, dance troupes, etc.), create and maintain rehearsal and practice regimens, deal with authority figures (like conductors, choreographers, directors, acting teachers, etc.), handle the special pressures of auditions and callbacks, and more. Syllabus 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 the twelve weeks in an affinity group (a free yahoo group) where participants check in, post lesson responses, ask questions, and learn from one another and the instructor. There is a weekly lesson; participants post their responses when they are ready and learn from the responses of other participants. The instructor pulls themes from the weekly responses and provides feedback to the group, answering questions and clarifying important coaching and self-coaching issues. To successfully complete the training, participants need to complete 10 of 12 lessons; 2 “free passes” are built in for vacations and the emergencies of life. Lessons can be turned in late (including after the training ends) as a second hedge against the busyness of life. The time commitment varies according to your level of interest, how much attention you pay to your classmate’s responses, the length of your lesson responses, and so on, with the minimum being a few hours each week. Please see the endorsements below to get a sense of how participants have experienced this training. TRAINING ENDORSEMENTS Here are some ringing endorsements of my 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 my third course with him — this time, 'Coaching Writers' — 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!" “I have learned more by participating in the ‘Coaching the Visual Artist’ 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.” "The many things I learned in Eric's Coaching Writers 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." "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." "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." "The 12-week Coaching Writers 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!" “The two courses 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 Creativity Coaching for Visual Artists 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 12 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.” "What more can I say than that after 12 weeks of participating in the Coaching Writers 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." “I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the ‘Coaching Visual Artists’ 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." “Last week I completed your Coaching Writers Training and I want you to know how valuable the twelve 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.” "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 Coaching Writers Course. 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." ** CEUs (Continuing Education Units) may be available. 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. ** I look forward to seeing you in one of the trainings!
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