FAQ

What is coaching?

Coaching is a collaborative container for personal exploration whereby you are encouraged to explore your dreams, and transform your thoughts and beliefs towards inspired actions. We work together to create an actionable plan that helps you achieve your vision. Please keep in mind that coaching is not a substitute for therapy.

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What do we focus on in coaching?

Ultimately, this is up to you. Our holistic approach acknowledges that all areas of your life are interconnected, yet most people come into coaching with certain goals in mind. We will help you to clarify your goals or areas of interest for coaching. Most people are drawn to Liberty's style and expertise to address:

• Business strategy, development & skill building

• Activist or values-aligned life path and purpose

• Queer liberation and sensitivity

• Integrating DEI principles into leadership & org strategy

• Community organizing and leadership development

• Creative project cultivation and creative flourishing

• Multi-modal creative life visions grounded in cycles and principles of nature

• Values-aligned lifestyle changes

• Applying decolonial and liberatory values to existing projects

• Cultivating liberatory relationships through communication and personal transformation

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Why coaching?

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Coaching can completely transform the way that you think and feel about yourself and your dreams, and support you to take action on the things you really want to embody in your life. 

People sometimes come to coaching after therapy, or in tandem with a therapeutic process when you need support through the process of change. Coaching is a stand in when other mentorships, care providers, family members or supervisors are either not available or not within the scope of your needs. With Liberty's specialized training and extensive breadth of skills and experience, we can address long-standing issues, thought patterns, habits and activate dreams for your life that other practices or resources have failed to address.

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What does a package entail?​​

Pay one lump sum for 3-, 6- or 12 months of support from a seasoned coach, consultant, activist and business owner. This includes 4 online, self-guided courses for the duration of your package, 5 days/week of text & voice message support (for exchanges and issues requiring less than 10 minutes), 2 original Awakening Creatives publications, a monthly 1-on-1 coaching call and discounts on all additional sessions and programs.

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What is the Holistic Creative Coaching methodology and how is this style of coaching different than others?​​

The Awakening Creatives Holistic Creative Coaching Methodology is a signature weaving of eclectic modalities. We mix holistic coaching (honoring that all areas of life are interconnected), transformational coaching (we attend to deep causes, not surface band-aids), and coaching which honors the innate creative life force within each person and group. This methodology honors the cycles and rhythms of nature within us and without and is intended to transform thoughts and beliefs to align with your truest desires and genius, making is easier to take action and experience self-defined success.

This process is informed by Liberty's work in liberatory community depth psychology, which operates from an awareness of individual and collective trauma and systemic oppression. Liberty also incorporates wisdom of natural cycles and seasons, as well as psychosomatic practices that engage your awareness in your body and real-time experience through your sensations. A liberatory community depth approach, which is informed by indigenous and ecopsychologies, allows your individual experience to come fully into the room, including knowledge that might otherwise be seen as superfluous in a Western context, such as dreams, divinatory practices, altered state experiences and interactions with the spirit and the divine.​​

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Learn more about Liberty's training and qualifications here.

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What can I expect from the coaching experience?

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Liberty is unfortunately aware of how variable and unreliable the coaching industry is at this time. Therefore, Liberty strives to be as transparent and collaborative as possible in their approach, so that you can build trust in the process and relax into your transformation. Trust and good communication are the foundations for an excellent coaching relationship.

After purchasing your package, you will receive a series of emails that include links to book 1-on-1 sessions, group sessions and access the many perks of your package. Don't worry, though. If you do not understand how to access something, Liberty is available by text and email to support you through the process. That's one of the awesome things about coaching with Liberty. You don't just get a few sessions. You get accompaniment through your process, so you can move through issues to take action without getting hung up on small things.

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1-on-1 sessions are 60-75 minutes long (we build in some flexibility), and start by reviewing what action you have taken, what challenges you faced and what success you are celebrating. Then, we choose a goal for the session based on where you are, and proceed to dive into the issue that is most important to you that week. After addressing the issue through any number of coaching tools (coaching conversations, guided visualizations, creative exercises, movement, breathing, etc.), we will collaborate to design actions for you to take. You will always be in control of the process and have choice in how you take action.

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Do you offer payment plans or discounts?

We strive to embody the value of equitable business practices, and therefore set our prices and processes to achieve that.

We know that not everyone can afford to pay the cost of coaching up front. If this is the situation you are in, please book a free call to discuss your options. ​

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More questions? Email liberty@awakeningcreatives.com