‘Your creative self is my main concern’.

Veronique Maria

The context for my work as an artist’s mentor and creativity coach is always going to be about strengthening your relationship with your creative self. So no matter what areas of your life we look at, ‘Your creative self is my main concern’.

I work holistically, considering how all aspects of your life effect your relationship with your creative self. I want you to be able to confidently trust yourself, open yourself up to what is most fundamentally you, live out of that place in all situations, and, as a result, be able to fully embrace creative freedom.

Whilst I often work with established and committed arts practitioners working in the fields of live-art, performance, dance, music, film, fine art, craft, design and architecture etc, working in an arts industry isn’t a prerequisite for working with me. What’s much more important is your desire to create a closer, deeper, more intimate connection to your creative self. We are all born as creative beings and we all have potential to grow that most essential and extremely valuable part of ourselves.

HOW THE MENTORING WORKS

We generally start with an informal video call. This gives us an opportunity to find out a bit more about each other, ask questions and decide whether or not we’d like to work together.

Having established a desire to work together we commit to meeting, weekly, online for 12 x 60 minute sessions.

In addition to this you’ll need to allow time for reflection and some simple tasks each week. This supports the work we do in our sessions and varies according to an individuals needs. I’m there to support you and answer questions between sessions via email and text throughout the 12 week mentoring period.

Fine tuning the connection you have with your creative self involves heightening your sensitivity to your intuition and inner wisdom, increasing awareness of your blocks and resistances and generally paying very close attention to your patterns of behaviour and mind states. Practices and processes that support this work will vary from person to person and might include things like meditation and mindfulness, deep listening and dialogue, journaling, walking, singing and sensing into your body. Dreaming is important too so we might explore day dreaming, night dreaming and lucid dreaming, as appropriate.

Each person’s needs are different so this work is not prescriptive. Your mentoring package is uniquely created for you as we go along so as I get to know you better it’s quite likely our focus and way of working will change. It can sometimes feel as if we’re dancing in the dark so building trust in this is vitally important, as is the ability to get out of our own way.

Once you’re more closely aligned to your creative self you’ll feel calmer, clearer, and more focused. This will impact all areas of your life. You’ll feel more peaceful and at ease, more purposeful and more well. With creative alignment the whole of life seems to flow more easily and when obstacles occur we have more resources to manage ourselves as we navigate them.

To arrange a FREE informal chat please email veronique@veroniquemaria.co.uk