Episodes in this series:
"People come to coaching and ask more existential questions, and that’s another reason why there is a rise in creative coaching.”
Andréa Watts, Stephen Brown, Beth Clare McManus and Pearl Jordan, join our host Maxine Bell for the final episode of our “Let’s Make Coaching Creative” podcast series in a beautiful, thought-provoking panel discussion.
Together, they discuss the challenges they have faced in their coaching journey. They also share strong evidence that using creative tools and a creative approach has led to powerful results in coaching. Learn why they think there
is a rise in creative techniques in coaching and what kind of future they see for creative coaches.
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“Creativity goes beyond our competencies – our capacity to create, our capacity to care, our capacity to be courageous.”
Elaine Patterson and Karyn Prentice, Senior Faculty at the Coaching Supervision Academy International Ltd, join our host Maxine Bell to explore what it means and what it takes to be creative in a noisy world that needs creativity
more than ever!
They believe we are all naturally creative. Creating our own preconditions for our creativity to flourish is now a mission critical because it is how we put love into the world. Listen and learn how we must give ourselves and
our clients permission to play, to get messy and to flow with what emerges, silencing our inner editors and critics.
They ask: “What is possible and what would it be like if we could all be just 5% or 10% more creative in our lives and work?”
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“I help them see the mind-body connection because your body is speaking to you every day.”
Pearl Jordan, Personal Development and Wellbeing Coach, joins our host Maxine Bell to share her inspiring personal story of suppression, discrimination, tenacity and resilience that brought her to use movement and dance
with coaching, by creating The Rhythmic Remedy®.
Her own personal story explains why she is so passionate about what she does and how it is that she created and now uses The Rhythmic Remedy® - a movement inspired approach to coaching beyond the spoken language and how this
differs from other creative tools. It is an important holistic inside-out approach having great impact.
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“Creativity is really finding its space in the coaching world.”
Andréa Watts, Coach and creator of the Collage Coaching Technique™, joins our host, Maxine Bell, to discuss coaching creatively with collage.
Andréa describes the neuroscience behind the art of her technique - a three-stage process she's developed to support clients surface their unconscious intuitive knowing to conscious knowledge, thus shifting behaviours
and mindsets.
In this engaging conversation, Andréa shares her coaching collage story, clarifies the difference between her work and vision boards, discusses the concerns of going deeper with clients, and talks about her forthcoming
book.
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“I don’t think that being creative is the problem, but how it will land or what people will say.”
Auriel Majumdar, a creative coach, educator, supervisor and poet, and Stephen Brown, coach, consultant and re-emerging music composer, join our host Maxine Bell to share their collaboration of music and poetry,
created to reflect the coaching journey.
This podcast episode is full of thought-provoking insights and personal experiences that demonstrate creativity’s ability to provide more data for a better coaching experience for both coach and client. They bravely
share their own vulnerability in discovering their creativity, how it has enhanced their coaching practice and how it has given them a sense of fulfilment and authenticity that wasn’t there before. Enjoy listening to the music
track they made in this very inspiring episode.
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“As coaches, our voices transform the quality of life for people.”
Lorlett Hudson FRSA, Executive Leadership, Transition Coach and CEO of One Hand Can’t Clap, joins host Maxine Bell, to talk about her multi award winning, 52 card set of proverbs, “What Mama Used to Say,” designed
to facilitate change, alter perceptions, break down barriers and develop high performing leaders and teams.
She talks about her work with African Caribbean leaders and entrepreneurs, the power of words to help us find what is not being said and what limiting beliefs we are holding onto. An authentic, natural born coach,
full of wise simple truths that she generously shares in this podcast episode. Listen and be inspired by her passion for people, community, innovation, coaching and change.
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"We’re constantly asking them to imagine and for me that’s the root of coaching and it’s also the root of creativity.”
Beth Clare McManus, a coaching psychologist and Illustrator, joins our host, Maxine Bell, for this rich and fascinating episode where she shares her experiments with creativity in her coaching practice, the
impact on clients and the results of her MSc research into ‘Music and Mark Making in Coaching Supervision.’
Beth advocates that all coaching is creative by its very nature, explaining the difference between creativity and the use of creative tools. Learn how to facilitate responsible creative experimentation that
is client focused, but also allows for us as coaches, to stretch the comfort zones of our own practice.
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“And I think that’s what poetry does – it really opens doors”
Charmaine Pollard, coach, counsellor, poetry therapist, and author, joins host, Maxine Bell, to share her insights and knowledge on the transformative power of words, poetry and creativity when used with coaching.
Charmaine runs therapeutic writing workshops for a variety of client groups, including survivors of domestic abuse and male prisoners. In this podcast, learn about some of the poetry and techniques that she
uses with clients to help them move forward with their lives and ‘become the best version of themselves.’ It’s work she loves and you will love listening to.
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“Even though we’re working with very serious things, it’s a joyful, playful space to work and very powerful”
Anna Sheather, Executive Coach, Supervisor and Author of “Coaching Beyond Words”, joins our host, Maxine Bell, to explore an art-based coaching practice and why it is such a powerful and important approach
for coaching today.
Anna shares her extensive research into neuroscience, person-centred art therapy and art as a communication tool, as well as debunking many myths of our 'art stories' that block exploration of this approach.
Listen to this insightful conversation to learn the underpinning principles of art-based coaching and the exciting developments Anna has created for coaches.
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