FAQ

 

What is coaching?

 

Coaching is a collaborative container for personal exploration whereby you are encouraged to explore your dreams, and transform your thoughts, beliefs and relationship to your body towards inspired actions. We work together to create an actionable plan that helps you achieve your vision. The role of the coach to provide a space for you to gain a deeper awareness, support, tools, and a safe space to explore your goals, visions, strengths, and challenges with sensitivity to your unique expression of culture, spirituality, neurodivergence, etc.

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Awakening Creatives offers both 1-on-1 and group or team coaching. The dynamics for these three modes of coaching are different, but the approach and principles described below are the same.

 

Coaching is not...

• a substitute for therapy. If you suspect you have mental health concerns that need specialized support, consider establishing a relationship with a therapist before starting coaching.

• going to fix all of your problems or provide a single solution. Coaching will support you to get clear, set goals and establish habits that will empower you to fix your own problems through a customized mixture of solutions that you devise.​​​

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What do we focus on in coaching?

 

Ultimately, your journey 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

• Values-aligned life path & purpose

• Early career, mid career and career transition

• Burnout prevention and recovery

• 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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How does this work?​​

 

Currently, you can schedule single sessions and Rooted Vision 1-on-1 Intensives. Simply book a session at the links provided. If you are interested in a longer discounted package, please book a free connection call to discuss your options.

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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 customized to your needs. 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.

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This approach is trauma-responsive, neurodiversity aware (currently training in ADHD sensitivity), non-pathologizing (holding that you are already whole), exploratory and culturally sensitive. We also attend to the body and body sensations as an important source of wisdom. The coaching relationship evolves as we learn more about your process, your needs, and we give each other feedback about what's working and what's not.

 

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. This means that in addition to finding what personal patterns and beliefs may impact your progress, we are careful to locate responsibility and barriers within the systems and cultures we operate within. 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. With this perspective in mind, we may choose to explore exercises that bring the wisdom of dreams, ancestors, nature and spirituality into the session. The direction of our sessions are based on your own needs, curiosities and desires.

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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 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.

 

If you choose to have a free 30-minute connection call, you may ask any questions regarding the process of registration, scheduling and coaching itself. In most cases (excluding some special offers), after purchasing your session(s), you will receive an email with details for how to engage with the perks of your coaching offer. 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. That also means that you are responsible for taking action and creating your own success.

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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. ​​