How Does Art Career Coaching Work?

 

COMPLETE LIST OF GATEWAYS SERVICES:

CREATIVE CAREER COACHING
Clarify and Reach Career Goals Faster.

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Move your artistic or creative project from inspiration to completion.

WRITING SERVICES
Sharpen your artist statement, bio, proposals, resume and more

PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT
Elevate your artist or design portfolio in a flat-rate, 3-session block

 

Gateways coaching services help clients to clarify new career goals, master the creative process, and take consistent actions to advance their careers. Clients are guided to discover or build upon their true creative core while maximizing career growth:

First, a complimentary consultation will allow me to understand the main challenges of your particular transition, and to explain more about how Gateways artist coaching works. Gateways is a two-step process. It has a simple framework that allows for organic movement. Here is the best way to describe the steps:

1. Clarification:

We will spend time as needed to fully clarify new career goals. Whether the next steps relate to your creative process, presentation, marketing efforts or a combination of these, we will start by examining what you’ve achieved to present, and what you would like to achieve next. This close examination will lead to a working structure, or a modification of your current structure. If you are transitioning into an entirely new career, we’ll start with a wide view of your options, then narrow them down as we identify your authentic needs, values and practical lifestyle requirements. Many clients seek help on the inner level as well as the outer. A foundation of universal themes are available to provide deeper insight into your creative cycles, habits, needs, gifts and obstacles. As clarity is achieved, you will be empowered by a tailored structure leading you toward clarified goals on the inner or outer levels, and often on both. You will be guided into taking new and sensible actions that will build or increase your momentum forward.

2. Acceleration:

Clarification has given way to early momentum in this stage. You are working through resistances and developing new habits on the inner or outer levels (or both) in an effort to further increase momentum. Your working process will be enhanced by incremental actions taken on a consistant weekly basis in accordance with your structure, toward longer range goals.

Various tools may be used, suited to your unique sensibilities: listing, researching, networking, outlining, journaling, meditation, drawing, thought and energy shifting. Clients will be encouraged to use repetition and effective discipline in order to keep stretching and accelerating toward the career goals defined.

Each client works through the Gateways Creative Coaching program in a unique way. I have worked with clients for as short a period as three months, and as long as three-plus years. Duration depends upon the degree of clarification at the start, and upon the unique style, rhythm, and resistances of each client. As described above, Gateways Coaching for creative professionals helps clients discover new insights into their creative process while implementing new attitudes and practical career strategies. Not to be confused with therapy, coaching is a goal-oriented process.

“Pure and Simple, my photo documentary is back on track.”

–Jennifer, Photographer.

“Gateways artist coaching tools made a huge contribution to my novel writing. The fear once paralyzing me as an artist is now only a twitch that I cope with easily.”

–Heather, Journalist.

“Barbara’s Coaching helped me to rescue my creative powers from confusion, to clarify my values and avoid the pitfalls of my business. I feel newly empowered to stay on track, in alignment with my true identity.”

–Yasmin, Actor.

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