What would it be like to be achieving your potential?
I can help you build confidence, find clarity & focus, and address the things that are holding you back.
Since 2020 I have worked with over 100 artists and creative people, spending hundreds of hours helping people do just that, no matter their background or barriers.
I asked my most recent clients how they found it, 100% reported feeling more confident, clearer and more focused, more motivated and more aware of their individual strengths and areas for further development.
One-to-one and group sessions for artists & creative people working in the arts, and consultancy for arts organisations
A simple conversation with the aim of reducing the mental load on you in order to catalyse new ideas, move past emotional blocks and come up with new solutions. Empowering you to take the lead
What will it be like?
Watch a 5 min video intro below and see if talking with me online is for you
Are you neurodivergent?
I specialise in coaching ADHD & Autistic people in the arts, I have neurotypical clients too
Mental health concern?
Find out about what having pre-existing mental health considerations means for us
How to tell if now is the right time.
Coaching, mentoring and counselling are distinct activities. I offer the first two, but not counselling at the moment. To get the most out of coaching or mentoring it needs to be the right tool for the job, at the right time. Coaching during a mental health crisis can be like using massage on a bad bruise-ouch!
Find out more in this 20 minute video from a previous Facebook Live session during Lockdown…
To make sure you are in safe hands, I am trained in Mental Health Awareness & Mental Health First Aid.
"Thank you so much for our sessions. I didn't realise how much I had been craving insight, information and care like you gave me. You took in the whole picture and gave me some incredibly helpful tools to move forward with renewed energy and enthusiasm. I am so grateful and can't recommend you enough!"
Chose your conversation
Five Session Programme
Five 75 minute one-to-one sessions focused on making significant steps forwards towards long-lasting change. A simple conversation aiming to reduce the mental load on you so that new ideas can surface, and what is interfering with your progress can be identified. The process can help you to move past emotional blocks and come up with new solutions.
Specialist areas: stress & well-being, burnout, time & energy management, self-management, collaboration communication & relationships, partnership working, neurodivergence, working with institutions funders & galleries, marketing, fundraising, PR & profile raising, social media.
Unwaged/unfunded rate: £245 (£49 per session)
Waged/unfunded rate: £320 (£64 per session)
Paid by your employer: £395(£79 per session)
Paid using funding : £600 (£120 per session)
Six Sessions to Build Programme
In coaching we say
"Performance = Potential - Interference"
Where the Five Session Programme identifies what that interference is for you and helps you to make the first steps towards long term change, Six Sessions to Build takes you to the next level.
This set of six 75 minute one-to-one sessions is for you if you have done the Five Session Programme or a series of sessions and feel that there is more to do on a deeper level.
Specialist areas: stress & well-being, burnout, time & energy management, collaboration communication & relationships, partnership working, neurodivergence, working with institutions funders & galleries, marketing, fundraising, PR & profile raising, social media.
Unwaged/unfunded rate: £295 (£49 per session)
Waged/unfunded rate: £385 (£64 per session)
Paid by your employer: £475 (£79 per session)
Paid using funding: £600 (£120 per session)
Other options.
Open-ended sessions.
This option is good when you know what you need to do to make a change and you want to work together on a regular ongoing basis. It can be used as a continuation from the Five or Six session programme or as part of access support from Access to Work. Follow up over email or text can be bolted on too.
Unfunded, unwaged individual rate: £50 for a 75 minute Zoom Session with email follow up.
Waged unfunded individual rate: £65 for a 75 minute Zoom session with email follow up.
If your employer is paying: £80 for a 75 minute Zoom session with email follow up.
If you have funding: £120 for a 75 minute Zoom session with email follow up.
Add weekly phone, text or email check ins for a month for and extra £20.
Workshops.
I run group workshops online covering a range of must-have tools for the growing artist or person working in the arts. Recent topics include planning self-initiated artist development projects, understanding arts funders, and goal setting through to action planning.
Current ticket prices:
£10 unwaged + I absorb the ticketing fees
£15 waged + ticketing fees
Check down the page for upcoming workshops, bookable through Eventbrite.
Group Sessions.
Group and individual coaching sessions as part of your structured course or artist development programme, or for artist-led collectives/groups doing DIY development activity together.
Good for spreading the costs between a group.
Artist collectives and DIY groups: £200 per day for up to 10 people, working out as £20 per artist.
Organisations and companies: £300 per day for up to five individual artist sessions (£60 per individual session), or a whole day group session for up to 10 artists.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday 11 & Monday 18 March 2024
Online 11:00 - 14:00
Active Listening & Making Agreements for ADHDers, a Two Part Mini-course
Perhaps what’s happening wasn’t what you expected - and you have no idea how you got there?
Perhaps tempers are flaring over things you thought were clear- reputations are at risk and it all feels scratchy?
Perhaps your extra unpaid days are mounting - the scope just kind of got bigger?
Familiar? Come learn how to get your set-up right for the best chance of success....
Oftentimes projects go wrong because we haven’t surfaced all the information up front, especially when we are busy and/or excited to get on with it.
So agreements are made with vital information missing, and key people have different expectations, only realisisng when things begin to go wrong....
Based on real-life experience of coaching and working with ADHD people, including proven ways to utilise your skills and manage your challenges.
Aimed at ADHD artists, creatives and arts workers, welcoming to all who feel this would benefit them.
Upcoming later in 2024…
Design Your Personal Operating Manual, for ADHD Artists & Creative Workers
For ADHD people who want to work out how to get the best out of themselves, and how to communicate that to the people that they work with.
How to Manage Managing Your Neurodiverse Team (ADHD Focus)
So you have increased neurodiversity in your team - now how do you manage it? It is brilliant but different…
For managers, senior leaders and lead artists & creatives.
Navigating Project Pitfalls, for ADHD Artists and Creative Workers
From loosing interest to loosing your cool, the road to a successful project outcomes is double hard with ADHD. This workshop will equip you with understanding and tools to navigate through the world of rejections, re-hashed projects, long waits for funding outcomes and working with other people.
Haven’t got the cash?
My vision is to create ways for artists from lower income scenarios to access as much support as possible. I am piloting a £10 per month subscription on Patreon which includes video workshops and tutorials, curated lists of books, videos and other resources, and a Monday Morning email to get you set for the week. Watch this 5 min video for more info.
I also regularly work with funded organisations to deliver free artist development workshops and one-to-one sessions, recent projects include TURF’s Groundwerk and Green Man Trust’s Artist in Wales One-to-One+ Sessions so keep an eye out for similar projects.
Bursary: Helping Artist Make Work-East, in association with Civic State & Hackney Wick Underground.
Professional artists & people working in the arts who were severely financially impacted by the Covid-19 global pandemic, living/working in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham or Waltham Forest could apply for a Bursary to access my Five Session Programme for a contribution of £15 OR free if that wasn’t possible.
Supported by the Westfield Eastbank Creative Futures Fund.
This project is now complete, you can read about it here.
Key experience and know-how
/How artists work and what they need across art forms
/Diversity and Inclusion, trained by Attitude is Everything and experienced with artists facing barriers due to race, gender, sexuality, mental & physical health, and ADHD/ Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Autism
/Commissioning artists. Designing and running residencies. Supporting artists over an extended period
/Working in public realm/social space. Offsite/non-gallery based projects.
/Collaboration, collaborative making and devising. Partnership brokering and working in partnership
/Working with galleries and institutions. Project management and project design
/Funding bid writing and pitching. UK fundraising sector
/Formalisation/expansion/significant scale-shift for organisations, events and projects
/Writing about artists’ work for critical and consumer audiences - interpretation, PR and marketing campaigns. Social media and marketing campaigns
/Artist-led models across the UK
Specialist areas.
/Visual Arts: sculpture, painting, installation and immersive, performance, expanded moving-image, light and digital media, dance
/Dance: contemporary, Breakin’ and Hip-hop theatre, Tanztheatre
/Cross-disciplinary and experimental, Live-Art and performance
/Cabaret, comedy, drag and entertainment
/Music: Jazz, composing & music creation, contemporary classical, DJs
/Producing: Event Management- conferences, large-scale events. Festivals
Key skills.
/Insightful-understanding people, situations and what is needed
/Critical thinking and effective delivery of helpful feedback
/Sought after mix of strengths in analytic/strategic planning and people skills
/Collaborative working
/Dynamic communicator- getting people on board, reading the room, hosting
/Communication skills-personable, diplomatic, accountable
My qualifications and work-based CPD training include:
Understanding Specific Learning Differences, Level 2 certificate NCFE CAHCE (May 2022)
Understanding Autism Level 3 NCFE CACHE (May 2022)
Mental Health First Aid & Mental Health Advocacy in the Workplace, Level 2 certificate NCFE CACHE
Mental Health Awareness, QLS certificated Level 5 Diploma
Coaching Skills, 7 Tools, Intelligent Action
Coaching Skills & GROW Model, City Lit
Delivering Learning/Training to Adults, 7302 City & Guilds certificate
Diversity and Inclusion, Attitude is Everything
First Line Management for Creative Practitioners, ILM Level 3 Introductory Certificate
Marketing for Creative Practitioners, Truro Business School
