🔥 creativity work is wands work 🔥
1:1 Creativity Coaching
The cards in Tarot’s Wands Suit, intrinsically tied to the fire element, relate to our inspirations and passions, our motivations and drive, and our abilities to gain traction, build momentum, and realize our goals. The Wands are the cards for imagining, doing, and achieving. When we tap into the Wands’ archetypal power, we tap into our own capabilities for making magic.
Learning to make magic is much more intentional than wish-fulfillment, and mastering our abilities to work with 🔥 takes concentrated effort. In order to make a satisfying creative life, we need to learn how to strike flint, catch a spark, and protect our flame so it doesn’t grow out of control — or burn out entirely.
“Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.”
— George Bernard Shaw
I’m Sarah, and I’m An Artist.
I used to have romantic notions about art, creativity, and self-worth — that making art and writing are solitary work, that creativity is a struggle, and that you have to suffer to be an artist (let me tell you, listening to The Smiths as a tender teen did not help me build a healthy relationship to self!). It took me 2 careers, lots of tears, and a truly chaotic Saturn Return to realize just how harmful these notions are. I remade my life by (among other things) getting clear on personal values, casting loving boundaries, and spinning a big and beautiful community web. In short: I re-enchanted my world. And I can teach you how to do these things, too! We don’t need to suffer to make our very best creative work — and we certainly don’t need to earn, or be deserving of, a sense of wholeness and well-being as we make our own meaning in the world.
“creativity is not a talent or ability. it is the fruit of a person’s decision to matter.”
— Eric Maisel
1:1 Creativity coaching
For those searching for a path to lasting creative success, & support that’s holistic & tailored to their needs.
Your imagination is a flame 🔥 feed it.
I know that creativity isn’t just something that we “apply” to parts of our lives. It’s in our very cells! It’s part of everything that makes you you: your imagination set in action. Creativity is us making meaning in life — it’s us saying “I know for myself, and I am exactly myself.”
We live in seasons and cycles — and some of them call for more support than others (I’m looking at you, Saturn Return!). Imposter “syndrome,” loneliness, time management and productivity, creative blocks, and burnout are all common challenges that can be mitigated and worked through alone, but struggling with our challenges by ourselves doesn’t make us more deserving of success. Repeat after me: there are no gold stars for suffering!
I coach productive creators, blocked creators, and would-be creators to help them connect with their meaning and purpose, and feed their clever and complicated hearts. Because I know that hard things are always easier when you’re in good company. Creativity coaching provides space for curiosity and play, accountability, and affirmation, so that you can develop the capacities, skills, and grace that combined make your passions whole. So whether you’re an artist or entrepreneur, scientist or academic, “muggle” or practitioner of the magical arts, know that if something’s brewing inside of you that needs a little push, or you’re feeling lost or stuck, you don’t have to walk through it alone.
The Coaching Journey
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🪞 Reflect
We’ll start by digging deep, looking at beliefs you had growing up around creative expression and your relationship to it, and what worries or doubts you have about embracing your creative power now. This period of contemplation can be tender, so we tread with care. We do this work to see what’s holding you back so you can let it go!
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🔮 Envision
Next, we’ll turn our gaze to what’s peeking out at you from over the horizon. You’ll examine what you think is important in your creative life and why, strengthen your relationship with your intuition and imagination, and spend some time envisioning what you want so you feel confident and passionate about what’s waiting for you. Everything is pure potential at this stage; if you can dream it, we can work together to make it happen!
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🔥 Create
Finally, it will be time to make your dream a reality. Pulling together all the amazing work you did in the reflection and envisioning stages, you’ll start creating your life, living your values and seeing them come alive in your actions as you make meaningful, sustained progress towards fulfilling your exquisite potential. This is the sweetest leg of the journey — and I’ll be cheering you the whole way!
Feed your flame 🕯
3-month coaching program
Our work together runs the course of a single season ❄️🌿🌞🍂
Winter: January - March / Spring: April - June / Summer: July - September / Autumn: October - December
We'll create a roadmap for your journey together by drawing from a variety of magical modalities, the psychology of alchemy and synchronicity, and appreciative advising and motivational interviewing principles. Roadmaps involve biweekly coaching sessions and targeted at-home opportunities for learning and reflection, all designed to inspire your devotion to your creative practices, clear blockages to achieving traction, dive deep into your personal values, restore and strengthen your connection to yourself and your art, define your vision for your best future, and embark on a meaningful path for getting there.
We’re full for Spring 2024! Now enrolling for Summer 2024.
Free initial consultation
$2400 program investment*
* This is a new coaching program and I’m very happy to offer it at a discounted investment price — starting later in 2024, the program investment will be $3200.
What you’ll get:
Six biweekly 60-minute 1:1 coaching sessions
Comprehensive assessment, including targeted tarot reading (a special tarot spread only offered to coaching clients!)
Personalized Notion dashboard + bespoke roadmap to help you reach your goals
Guidance and support via email & Voxer between sessions
Helpful tools, tips, and magical tricks for developing your creative life and navigating your unique obstacles and challenges
Supplemental exercises, resources, and reading list to expand your imagination, build your confidence, and practice your skills between coaching sessions
1 60-minute 1:1 check-in 3 months after the end of the program
I can’t wait to learn about you and your passions. Schedule a time to chat with me and let’s get started!
FAQs
i don’t think i’m a creative person - Is creativity coaching for me?
You will 💯 benefit from creativity coaching. Because guess what: you’re definitely creative. I know, you’re skeptical. But you are!
Everyone has the capacity for imagination, creativity, and living with passion and integrity— the question is: how are you going to cultivate it? Let’s come up with answers together!
what kind of artist are you? what does your creativity practice look like?
I’m a published fiction author, tarotist, fiber arts enthusiast, amateur ukulele player, and lapsed visual artist; I’m proud to count creative and academic writers, fine artists, designers, witches, creative organizations, and literary & arts publications across the United States and around the world as integral parts of my greater creative community.
My creativity practice is spacious, varied, and lovingly supported by my kindred creative spirits — in writing groups, ritual and ceremonial spaces, conferences, workshops, retreats, and other creative spaces.
are you a certified coach?
Coaching is a hyper-saturated field, and it’s been hard to find a life/executive coaching certification program that can hold a candle to the 20+ years of experience and preparation that make me so uniquely qualified to work with creatives! I’ve found a coaching academy that shares my values, including centering DEI and anti-racist work, and I’m training with them to achieve certification now. Learn more about my unique skill sets and qualifications - as well as my certification academy - here.
why is your coaching done on a 3-month seasonal schedule?
Opening and closing the seasons with intention is a powerful strategy for making lasting change. Effective coaching also takes time, and I have found that 3 months - the approximate length of a given season of the year - is an ideal amount of time for laying solid foundations that will get you through to the end of your roadmap and beyond.
DO YOU OFFER IN-PERSON SESSIONS?
I do! In addition to sessions over Zoom, I offer in-person coffee/tea & walk/talk sessions in Monterey and Santa Cruz.
Do You really work with women specifically on their saturn return?
Saturn is a wise teacher, and you’ll come out the other side of your Saturn Return/s transformed. Few things in my coaching career is more satisfying than witnessing and holding space for that growth.
Womxn and other folks experiencing their first Saturn Return are only a subset of the clients I work with, but a group dear to my heart. Mine was profoundly challenging — a real sequence of Tower moments in my life that forced me to reckon with my choices and learn to take full authority - and authorship! - of my life. Each and every prematurely-grey hair on my head has a story to tell 🧡 I’m grateful for my first Saturn Return, and look forward to Saturn’s next visit with respect and awe. Through the work we’ll do together, you will too!
Can I schedule a one-off coaching session?
Single coaching sessions can be scheduled by returning clients who have already completed a 3-month coaching package.
Are payment plans available?
Yes! We can absolutely set up a monthly payment plan for your creativity coaching package.
What about cancellations and refunds?
It’s my aim to provide all of my clients with the best learning and coaching experience, and I take my commitment to my clients very seriously.
There are no refunds after purchase unless I cancel on my end due to serious illness, emergency, or other reasons. If there is an extenuating circumstance on your end, a refund/cancellation may be considered if acceptable documentation is provided.
I don’t know that I’m ready for this commitment. Are there other ways I can do coaching work with you?
If you’re on the fence about signing on, I completely understand; 1:1 coaching is a huge commitment to make in service of your growth and development. Schedule a free consultation, and we can talk about what’s best for you — and if coaching isn’t in the cards for you in this season or the next, Year-Ahead tarot sessions are great opportunities to get a taste of what future-oriented planning with me can look like!