Sometimes what you need does not fit neatly into a category.

You may be facing a decision, a transition, a creative or career challenge, a relationship question, a crisis of meaning, or the feeling that something about your life needs reconsidering. You don’t need a diagnosis, and you don’t need to turn your concern into a “mental health problem” in order for it to deserve serious attention.

My Human Experience Specialist work is a focused one-month engagement: three private conversations, approximately two weeks apart, with email contact between sessions as needed and wanted. We begin with whatever matters most to you and see where the conversation needs to go.

If you want to learn the principles and practices of creativity coaching—either to help creative people or to become better at coaching yourself—I offer comprehensive online creativity coaching trainings.

These programs draw on decades of work with writers, artists, performers, coaches, and other creative people. They address creative blocks, motivation, productivity, creative anxiety, career challenges, maintaining a creative life, and the practical craft of helping creative people flourish.

Trainings are conducted entirely online, allowing you to participate from anywhere in the world. Scholarships are available.

You may have a book in your head, a manuscript underway, years of expertise you want to turn into a book, or a proposal that needs strengthening.

I’ve written more than sixty books and have spent decades helping writers think through the large and small challenges of creating nonfiction. We can work on your book’s central idea, structure, argument, voice, marketability, proposal, author positioning, writing process, or publishing strategy.

My nonfiction book coaching is a three-month engagement that includes three private Zoom sessions, email contact between sessions, and review of selected manuscript, proposal, or planning materials as useful. Our emphasis can remain where it is most needed: on the book’s big idea, structure, distinctiveness, and prospects for reaching its audience.

I speak to organizations, conferences, associations, universities, professional groups, and creative communities around the world.

Current topics include The Difficult Art of Being Human, The Reenchantment of Meaning, The Existential Nomad, The Creative Life, The Future of Helping, Rethinking Mental Health, Meaning and Purpose in Difficult Times, and How to Be Your Own Best Coach.

Presentations can take the form of a keynote, lecture, webinar, interactive workshop, half-day or full-day program, or multi-session series. I’m also happy to develop a presentation specifically for your audience and its needs.