1:1 Creative Life Coaching
Embarking on a creative life is to welcome a life in process.
Your creativity is your birthright, your natural gifts brought to light, to life.
But when it was discouraged as an impractical nice-to-have, you may have knuckled down into a life that would pay the bills.
When your sensitivity was unacknowledged or worse, punished, you my have learned to hide this deep, wise part of yourself.
But maybe recently, a small voice inside won’t leave you alone. And now, you no longer choose to ignore it.
Together let’s rediscover and befriend the accidental beauty that is you. We will look at patterns that hold you back, dreams you’ve held onto, parts of you that got lost or forgotten, things you put away that you were told were unwelcome.
There’ll be alchemy and sometimes a bit of archeology. You might think you’re too broken or damaged or cynical to ever be as kind to yourself as you will learn to be. It will happen. You will learn to fall in love with the truest core of who you are.
hear from a fellow traveller
“Here’s what I can tell you. When you sit down with Kassana, you’ll sit down with All Your Things.
Your worry, your doubt, your fear. Your not-enoughs, your maybe-I-should-haves, your could-have-beens. You’ll bring your hopes and your disappointments and your Tender Self underneath and your Brave Self on the surface and you won’t know exactly what will happen. I mean, she’s a coach and what is a coach anyway? You’re not exactly sure, but you’re trusting her and so, what the hell.
And then what will happen is Kassana will smile. And all the strings around your heart will loosen. And she will look you straight into your eyes and without a tool already poised in her hands to fix you, she will listen. She’ll listen the way people don't listen, all the way in. And then with great and patient wisdom she will guide you to the tool you already have in your belt and remind you how to use it.
She’ll do that with humor, and joy, and lightness. She’ll do it with the kind of intuitive brilliance that only someone who has shone the light on all the cracks and crevices of their own life gets access to.
She’ll use her sharp mind and gentle spirit to direct you back home to yourself, which is the only place to find any answers, and the point of all the searching, truth be told. And then what will happen, let me tell you is somewhere along the way you’ll realize that the spark in you just burst back into flame.
“When you leave her, you’ll think, “I can do this.” Which is everything. Which is how it happened for me.”
ara james
the pillars of my work
Internal Family Systems
Using an IFS-informed approach to coaching is a way to deepen into our own life experience. It is a practice that becomes an ongoing and empowering tool for any anyone committed to doing their own transformative work, or for anyone experiencing any kind of change from one life experience to another.
Somatic Drawing
Bringing 2 years of study in Somatic Experiencing together with a regular drawing and painting studio practice, I offer workshops for artists and non-artists to use drawing tools as a means of accessing internal wisdom and intuition, while deepening into an existing creative or personal process. No previous art experience is required, although it is welcome.
Lived Experience
I sit with a deep understanding of the challenges we face as sensitive and creative beings, based on my own life experience. I believe the same is true of my clients. Together, we work with the materials, conditions and experiences you bring. We do not seek to change your life experience as much as we slow down the process enough for you to feel the authentic and transformative nature of your own questions, and the certainty of the answers that follow.
the journey
There is no step by step guide to waking up to your own magnificence. There is only the daily practice of showing up and listening carefully to the often small and quiet voice that wants to go in a new direction.
Creativity is your true nature coming out to play.
It is loopy and meandering and disrespectful of time. It tugs at your sleeve when your arms are full of groceries or you’re trying to find your keys. It asks you to risk and disrupt and turn things upside down.
Creativity is also the steadiness you feel when you find yourself at the very center of your life. When you stop asking for permission. When you spread your wings without looking back to see who’s stopping you.
Your creativity has been calling you all this time, and you are now, finally ready to see what it is asking of you.
here are some of the check-points we may pass along the way:
1. Breadcrumbs
Because this is deep process work, we’re going to be following breadcrumbs – a lot of them. They’ll lead us along a path that only your Inner Compass can take us.
2. Patterns
We’ll identify hidden patterns in your life. Through exercises and prompts, we’ll create awareness, disrupt old patterns, and allow for new pathways to be laid down.
3. Rabbit Holes
When you get lost down a rabbit hole, I’ll ask questions to bring you gently back into flow. You’ll return with ideas, images, and metaphors that you found while down there.
4. Presence
We’ll slow down enough to feel into what’s unfolding in the room - moment to moment. We’ll use somatic exercises to reconnect you with your deep creative impulses.
5. New Lenses
We’ll get curious and playful, trying on new perspectives and turning things upside down. We’ll shake things up so that new possibilities can tumble free.
6. Self Trust
And gradually, you will soften into the ebb & flow of your creativity. You will remember the 4-year old you who sang, painted and made magic like it was her god-given nature.
SINGLE SESSIONS
$150
1 X 60 MIN ZOOM SESSION
For those who want to test the waters. Includes optional
15 minute check-in calls between sessions.
3-MONTH JOURNEY
$800
6 X 60 MIN ZOOM SESSIONS
Includes customized creative exercises, email support and optional 15 minute check-in calls between sessions.