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Pause, observe, create, reflect, share...repeat.
Artistry is a process not a product. Artworks are documentations of the creative process and visual thinking of the artist. Focus on exploring and enjoying the process and art will be the result. ~Helen R. Klebesadel 
Prairie Fire II, watercolor, 30x40 from The Flowers Are Burning Series
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Helen Klebesadel offers individual and group coaching creativity coaching and arts-based workshop experiences designed to help you bring your own most authentic voice to you art.
Are you ready to discover, re-mind, re-cover, and re-member your vision for yourself as a creative person? Creativity coaching can help you to embrace your greatest vision for yourself as an artist and/or creative, and imagine your next action steps toward that vision of yourself as a whole person. Are you ready to start to embody your greatest vision for yourself as an artist and a creative person? |
What is Creativity Coaching?
Creativity coaching is a coaching method that helps individuals grow into their most authentic selves. The process is designed to bring the coach and the client together to collaborate on identifying and nurturing the clients’ greatest visions for themselves as creative people and/or artists. Developing creative confidence and well-being is one of the greatest contributions we can give ourselves and others. Our ability to apply our creative skills, thinking and expression in all aspects of our lives provides enormous benefits and results, especially if our chosen careers are in the arts. Creativity Coaching as a professional practice aims to help clients figure out how to articulate and nurture their creative vision for themselves, recognize obstacles, establish attainable strategies for moving toward their visions and in setting up systems of shred and self-accountability to assist them in achieving their goals. This Creativity Coaching practice is governed by the International Coaching Foundation’s professional code of ethics.
Learn more about Creativity Coaching with Helen Klebesadel here.
Learn more about Creativity Coaching with Helen Klebesadel here.
Individual Art Consulting and Art InstructionWould you like to consult with an experienced artist on your art or career? Would you love access to one-on-one instruction on exactly what you need? Coming soon.
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Individual Creativity CoachingAre you a visual artist ready for your own authentic and/or creative art voice to emerge with greater strength? Would you like to explore how to do that working with Helen Klebesadel? Watch here for the announcement of a limited number of spots for ongoing one-on-one Creativity Coaching, in person, by phone or Skype and by email. Coming soon!
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Group Creativity Coaching
Are you a visual artist ready for your career to grow and your own authentic voice to emerge with greater strength? Are you interested in working with other artists who have the same goals? Watch here to learn about the next StART Group Creativity Coaching Circle start up. Coming soon!
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Teaching, Consulting, and Coaching are not the same thing...
I an artist, a teacher, a consultant and a coach, and some of my clients may work with me in more than one capacities. It is therefore important for me to explain that there are two especially important differences between creativity coaching and teaching: the power relationship and the source of perceived knowledge. In creativity coaching I have a collaborative relationship with my clients based in the understanding that they already have within them the knowledge and abilities to articulate and work for their fullest creative potential. My job is to partner with them to help them draw out that knowledge. As a teacher, I am asked to be the expert and teach the student new knowledge and skills that they do not yet have, but need, to develop their artistic potential going forward. I’m sometimes asked to assess and judge my students’ efforts, while in coaching I don’t judge, I support.
My philosophy is that…
…we are born creative. It is what makes us human. However, our creative voices can be stymied or restrained by the circumstances of our lives. If we have lost contact with our creativity, we can find it again and use it to aid us in everything we do: from informing our decision-making and problem-solving, to arranging our lived environments to make us happier, to guiding our creative work as artists and makers. Our authentic center remains, ready to be tapped as an important resource for each of us to use to reach our fullest potential.
As a teacher my goal is to help you develop skills and understanding of the mediums you choose to work in; to help you as you develop your content and the conceptual bases of your work, and to make sure you have a solid foundation in the visual language that will allow you to make artworks that fulfill your intentions.
As a consultant my goals are to advise you on your art and art projects or to help you advance your career goals to the best of my ability. I will draw on my own experience and share with you the knowledge that I wish I had access to when I was earlier in my career,
As a Creativity Coach my goal is to help you to access your creative center in the service of achieving your greatest vision for yourself as a person. I will support you identifying ways to reach your best creative thinking for your life, your artistic practice, and the world, because the world is not a better place without your best self being realized. Its important though, to move beyond thinking and realizing, to action toward your larger goals and vision, albeit sometimes ...one small step at a time. It can be easier to take those steps if someone is helping you remember what you really want.
My philosophy is that…
…we are born creative. It is what makes us human. However, our creative voices can be stymied or restrained by the circumstances of our lives. If we have lost contact with our creativity, we can find it again and use it to aid us in everything we do: from informing our decision-making and problem-solving, to arranging our lived environments to make us happier, to guiding our creative work as artists and makers. Our authentic center remains, ready to be tapped as an important resource for each of us to use to reach our fullest potential.
As a teacher my goal is to help you develop skills and understanding of the mediums you choose to work in; to help you as you develop your content and the conceptual bases of your work, and to make sure you have a solid foundation in the visual language that will allow you to make artworks that fulfill your intentions.
As a consultant my goals are to advise you on your art and art projects or to help you advance your career goals to the best of my ability. I will draw on my own experience and share with you the knowledge that I wish I had access to when I was earlier in my career,
As a Creativity Coach my goal is to help you to access your creative center in the service of achieving your greatest vision for yourself as a person. I will support you identifying ways to reach your best creative thinking for your life, your artistic practice, and the world, because the world is not a better place without your best self being realized. Its important though, to move beyond thinking and realizing, to action toward your larger goals and vision, albeit sometimes ...one small step at a time. It can be easier to take those steps if someone is helping you remember what you really want.
Helen Klebesadel (MFA 1989). In addition to teaching workshops nationally and internationally, Helen has taught for UW-Madison, Beloit College, and Lawrence University, where she taught for ten years, earned tenure and chaired the art department. She has taught contemporary theory, art foundations, 2-D and 3-D art courses and workshops for over 25 years. In addition to her expertise in watercolors and other painting media, she has taught all forms of printmaking, as well as drawing, computer aided imaging and some book arts. While she is not a photographer she has also helped photo students expand the quality and content of their work as well.
Helen is also a certified Creativity Coach through the Creativity Coaching Association. In addition to traditional 'talk' coaching, she regularly uses mixed media and collage as part of her arts-based creativity coaching workshops. Helen believes art-making is a form of pre-verbal thinking and problem solving that can be applied to our work to enhance and expand the place of creativity in our lives.
Helen also has a line of fabric and wallpaper based on her watercolors for sale at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/helenklebesadel
Helen is also a certified Creativity Coach through the Creativity Coaching Association. In addition to traditional 'talk' coaching, she regularly uses mixed media and collage as part of her arts-based creativity coaching workshops. Helen believes art-making is a form of pre-verbal thinking and problem solving that can be applied to our work to enhance and expand the place of creativity in our lives.
Helen also has a line of fabric and wallpaper based on her watercolors for sale at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/helenklebesadel