What would you make if you had the
time?
You have a spark inside you — a book, an album, a film — that you want to build into a fire. But life, logistics, doubt, and resistance keep it snuffed.
Project coach Evangeline Garreau will help you tease apart what’s holding you back and figure out how to work with and around your blockers. Together you’ll set realistic goals that play to your strengths and stay accountable to achieving them in a humane way, with the flexibility to change course when your life and project change.
Evangeline will help you bring the work that's been rattling around in your head out into reality.
Creative work doesn’t have to be a lonely, terrible slog
There’s more than enough ink spilled about the tortured artist. What about the thriving artist? What about the delighted artist? What about the artist having so much fun they feel like they’re getting away with something?
Your work doesn’t have to feel awful to be real or serious. You don’t have to grind your way through every obstacle, you don’t have to feel guilty or burdened by not making the progress you want, and you certainly don’t have to go it alone.
Creative work is vulnerable, and that can be painful. But together we can build a creative practice around that to cushion it with ease, resourcefulness, and maybe even joy.
Let’s talk about your work
In a free half-hour call we’ll talk about your project, what’s going on, and what interests you about coaching. I’ll give you a sense of how (or if) I might fit into your creative practice and answer any questions you have. This is a chance for us both to get a sense if we’re a good fit.
I would rather this feel like a free coaching session than a sales call. I want to help you envision what it would look and feel like to work with me, and from there you can make the best choice for you.
There’s nothing you need to do to prepare, but if you want to do some journaling or thinking ahead, here are some questions to consider:
What do you love about this project?
What do you hate about it, or what makes you uncomfortable?
How do you feel, physically, when you work on it (or think about working on it)?
What do you hope/wish/dream for this project?
After the call I will email you notes on everything we discussed, including pricing details and links to any resources I think could be beneficial. Take note of how you feel after we talk; ideally you should be energized, motivated, and have some new clarity.
What do you actually do?
In hour-long sessions, I create a receptive space for deep listening and playful exploration. I ask questions to get at blockers sideways, slantwise, and upside down. I provide feedback and ideas on creative work (as a peer, not a professional editor), offer reframes and alternative perspectives, lead visualizations to understand the internal parts that don’t want to move forward, and help determine where creative energy can best be focused.
Most sessions end with setting a goal for the time before we next meet, and the next session will begin with discussing how it went.
So it’s like therapy?
Creative work necessarily touches our most sensitive and vulnerable parts, so my work takes us to sensitive and vulnerable places. As the steward of this experience, I take that responsibility seriously and work hard to ensure we explore those places safely and gently.
I am not a licensed therapist and I will always recommend adding in professional therapy if the scope of our work starts to stretch beyond the creative process. These borders can be hazy, so I trust my discernment and that of my clients to know when a licensed caregiver would be more supportive than I can be.
But yes, it is not unlike therapy.
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