Creativity Coaching Trainings
Creativity Coaching Trainings
For decades, I have trained coaches, therapists, counselors, writers, visual artists, performers, and other creative people in the principles and practices of creativity coaching.
My creativity coaching trainings are designed for two kinds of participants: people who want to help creative individuals meet the challenges of creating and sustaining a creative life, and creative people who want to become more effective at coaching themselves. Many participants come for both reasons.
The trainings are conducted entirely online and by email, so you can participate from anywhere in the world and work on your own schedule. No special technology is required and there are no scheduled classes to attend.
Introduction to Creativity Coaching
Introduction to Creativity Coaching
16 weeks | $475 | No prerequisites
Scholarships are available. I don’t want cost alone to prevent someone who genuinely wants to take the training from participating. If the full tuition is beyond your means, please get in touch (to ericmaisel@hotmail.com) Partial scholarship assistance may be available.
The Introduction to Creativity Coaching Training provides a practical foundation in understanding and helping with the challenges of the creative life.
Over the course of 16 weeks, we explore such subjects as supporting creative people, understanding client goals, brief and long-term creativity coaching, meaningful creative projects, planning, cognitive and emotional obstacles, doubts and fears, career issues, maintaining a creative life, self-coaching, and building a creativity coaching practice.
Participants who wish to gain coaching experience may work with their own practice clients during the training. Others may take the training primarily for professional development or self-coaching.
Average time commitment: approximately 3–5 hours per week.
Course reader included.
Can I Take Both Trainings Together?
Yes. Many participants take the Introduction and Advanced trainings simultaneously. Others prefer to complete the Introduction first and then move on to the Advanced training. Either approach is fine.
Advanced Creativity Coaching
Advanced Creativity Coaching: Coaching Writers, Visual Artists, and Performers
16 weeks | $475 | No prerequisites
Scholarships are available. I don’t want cost alone to prevent someone who genuinely wants to take the training from participating. If the full tuition is beyond your means, please get in touch (to ericmaisel@hotmail.com) Partial scholarship assistance may be available.
The Advanced Creativity Coaching Training takes a deeper look at the particular challenges faced by writers, visual artists, and performers.
The training explores both the inner and outer dimensions of the creative life: resistance, creative identity, meaning, discipline and practice, criticism and rejection, performance anxiety, career development, marketplace realities, and the challenge of sustaining a creative life over time.
For coaches and other helping professionals, the training also includes a substantial practice-building dimension, including developing a niche and brand, finding clients, creating services, making effective pitches, building professional relationships, and becoming more adept at navigating the creative marketplace.
The program is flexible, allowing you to emphasize the issues most relevant to your own creative life, your clients, or the creativity coaching practice you hope to build.
Average time commitment: approximately 2–4 hours per week.
Course materials included.
What Participants Say
“Eric Maisel is an inspired coach and teacher. He is extremely knowledgeable and shares his knowledge generously in a focused and practical way. I am amazed not only at how much I’ve learned for use with my own clients and students, but how expansive my own writing and creative process have become.” — Susan Borkin
“The many things I learned in the advanced training were immediately useful to me both as a writer and a writing coach. As a writer, I finally faced and got over my most hardened resistances. Also, I put many of Eric’s coaching insights to immediate use in my coaching practice.” — David Storer
“Eric provided a structure for thinking about creativity and the tools I needed to communicate with clients and to help them find their way to living the creative lives they want.” — Barbara Millman Cole
What We Might Work On
These trainings are educational programs offered directly by me. For those interested in becoming a certified creativity coach, I have also created a comprehensive Creativity Coach Certification Program delivered in partnership with Noble Manhattan Coaching.
Participants in my creativity coaching trainings may be eligible for exemptions and scholarships when proceeding to the certification program.
A Training You Can Fit into Your Life
Because the creativity coaching trainings are email-based, there are no meetings to attend and no time-zone difficulties. You read the weekly material, respond to the lessons, interact with me and other participants, and—if you choose—put what you are learning into practice with clients.
Whether your goal is to become a creativity coach, add creativity coaching to your existing professional work, strengthen an existing coaching practice, or better understand and manage your own creative life, these trainings offer a practical way to deepen your understanding of what it takes to create—and to help others create.