Whether I work with seasoned professionals, known entertainers or enthusiastic hobbyists, I deeply believe that a major component of a fulfilled life is the steady and joyful realization of your creative self, and that angst and suffering are NOT requisites to a life in the art.
Bye bye suffering. Hello, happiness!
An artist’s path is challenging as it is, and life dishes out enough pain to give us material for a life time, so do we really have to add our own self-created misery to the mix? I did – to the nth degree – taking a 16 year detour in the world of business and finance (don’t ask!) and losing myself in the process. Life has a funny way of shaping us when we don’t shape it.
Miraculously, a friend introduced me to a creativity coach and I started the long journey back home to self-love, to beauty, to my core creative and authentic self… and forward to a life of joy and inspiration.
Bye-bye suffering. Hello, happiness!
Witnessing my transformation and my natural knack at sharing it, artists and creative entrepreneurs started to ask for my help, which I loved giving. Along the way, I noticed that very few professional coaches specialize in performers and creators and that artists are hungry for this targeted help. I founded Your Best Creative Life and my new career was born.
I am a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the premier experiential school of coaching in the world, and hold the designations of Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF). I have a degree in Business Administration.
An active member of several professional associations*, I continue to deepen my studies in the performing arts, creativity, neurosciences, somatic healing, positive psychology and the wisdom traditions (yoga, meditation, mindfulness), and seek every opportunity to grow as a person and as a coach to better serve you.
Multi-cultural (I was born in England, raised in France and currently live in northern California) I coach in French and in English and stumble frequently in my pronunciation of words like restaurant and croissant depending in which country I am at the time.
When not coaching, studying, teaching or playing music, you’ll find me daydreaming about far away galaxies where Art is king, losing my balance trying on a yoga pose or eating chocolate chip ice cream. I haven’t managed all three at the same time, yet.
Now you know a little bit about me. How about you? What is Your artistic story? I would LOVE to READ IT. Please send it to my email address. I will respond personally.
” Coleen is a breath of fresh air. She is funny, inspiring, serious, tender, compassionate, wise, creative, indefatigable, real – a joy to coach with. She kicks your ass in a gentle and unassuming way. She inspires me to show up and be my best self. I’ve never been more dedicated to my graphic design career. And I adore her accent.” Graphic Designer – Los Angeles, USA”
If you are considering working with a coach, feel free to contact me. I’ll be delighted to answer your questions and get a feel for where you are and what you want to achieve.
* Professional associations:
- International Coach Federation (ICF) – Global
- Performing Arts Medical Association (PAMA)
- International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance (ISSTIP)
- French Society of Authors and Composers (SACEM)
- International Coach Federation – Sacramento Chapter