Creative Way Art
Mindful Creativity Coach and Life Coach
Do you feel stuck in your personal, creative, spiritual or work life?
Would you like to explore ways forward with an experienced coach who has walked the talk?
Explore yourself and what you love
Discover how you might take your life forward
Be supported in a relaxed, confidential atmosphere
CLARIFY AND MOVE THROUGH BLOCKS AND RESISTANCES
Negative self talk and limiting self beliefs can be paralysing, but there are ways through them that can open use to a more fulfilling life.
DISCOVER YOURSELF AND MEANING
Clarify what is really important, authentic and meaningful in life for you – what are your core values, aspirations, goals and beliefs that make life worth living and creative work worth doing?
RECONNECT
Maybe you are deeply wishing to reconnect with your love of doing art that you experienced many years ago and need support with this to find confidence, focus or learn skills while you get yourself going doing art work.
MOVE THROUGH A LIFE TRANSITION
Things change, we change at any age, and are often hard to process, including transitions such as empty nesting, divorce, bereavement, career change, or life crises at any time.
HEALING
Mindful Creativity Coaching can be part of a path of healing, self discovery and personal development, enabling you to combine creative activity with ME, MS, physical disability, chronic illness, ageing, depression, anxiety and stress. I integrate mindfulness, spiritual counselling, art teaching and coaching to help you connect with and express your deepest self, whatever space you are in
GOING PRO OR MOVING YOUR PRACTICE FORWARD
Are you wanting to go professional with creative practice but not sure how to do this? If you are a creative professional, you may be wanting support with professional development to move your business forward, deepen and progress your creative work or change direction in what you are doing.
PERMISSION TO NURTURE YOURSELF
Women in particular often find huge difficulty giving themselves permission to nourish themselves through creative activities. If you are keen to integrate creativity into your life, Mindful Creativity Coaching can support you in learning to balance creative work with other areas of your life, such as relationships, physical health, social and family life and spirituality.
COMMITTING TO LONG TERM CREATIVE PRACTICE
Developing a body of creative work takes patience, perseverance and commitment, just for starters. Mentoring and coaching can be a tremendous ongoing support, particularly when self doubt, blocks, anxiety and other issues poke their heads up.
MULTI LEVEL, FLUID APPROACH
Depending on your interests and needs, we can work at deeply personal levels and also at very practical, nuts and bolts levels – they are not mutually exclusive and are often both needed.
MINDFUL CREATIVITY COACHING
as CPD personalised to focus on what you want to explore
What is Mindful Creativity Coaching?
Mindful Creativity Coaching can help you learn to be more aware, present and free in many areas of life. Your blocked energy becomes more available for authentic, deeply satisfying creative expression and appreciation of daily life. Creative expression - whether through art or in some other way - then becomes an enriching journey of self discovery in which you are more authentically yourself and create naturally from that.
What Happens?
You can focus on any issues in which you feel stuck and would like to move forward which can include personal, spiritual, creative and/or professional areas of your experience.
My role is to be alongside you, supporting you in a confidential, listening, compassionate, non-judgemental way. You set the agenda, we clarify what's going on, where you'd like to go and what would help you get there. Together we embark on a journey in which I support you in moving towards where you would like to be.
Depending on your inclination, we fluidly and intuitively work with a range of inspiring methods from Life Coaching, Creativity Coaching, Art Teaching, Therapeutic Art, Mindfulness and Meditation.
This means that at times we might use coaching methods, and at other times more formal teaching, mindfulness or meditation methods may be more beneficial. Insights fostered through mindful creative artistic practice can be transferred to any other area of personal life and work.
Sometimes we may work at a practical, nuts and bolts level, and at other times we may go deep and more subtle depending on your interests and needs. Often both are needed.
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Who is Mindful Creativity Coaching for?
Anyone! You may be at the starting post just wanting to start becoming more creative.....
Or be picking up an interest you put down many years ago....
Or be wanting to express yourself but don't know how.....
Or you could be a creative professional wanting to move on to the next stage of your business or creative development.​
Where are sessions held?
As everything is personalised for your needs, Sessions can be in person, by phone, email or Zoom by mutual agreement daytime, evening or weekends.
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I also offer confidential Mindful Creativity Coaching intensives One-to-One in person as a retreat or as a break for as many days as you need.
How long will I need Mindful Creativity Coaching for?
This depends what your needs and issues are and what would most benefit you. This could be anything from one session to several months or longer. During our initial session we would agree on what feels best to commit to initially, along with how and when we would review how things are going for you.
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Block Bookings are available for 4 or more Mindful Creativity Coaching or Life Coaching Sessions paid for in advance.
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Phone 01379 897393 for a free 20 minute consultation when you can ask any questions and explore whether coaching would be beneficial for you.
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Mindfulness Coaching
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness practice involves learning to be aware of and pay attention to what is happening, as it is happening. This includes awareness of bodily sensations and perceptions such as seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, moving, thinking and feeling.
Contrary to popular belief you do not have to be able to stop thinking in order to learn to meditate! We just need to be aware of whatever our experience is.
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By becoming more aware of ourselves, we begin to notice knee-jerk reactions to situations and challenges which cause us unnecessary suffering. With practice, our minds can begin to become open to choosing new, more beneficial ways of responding.
With more practice we begin to appreciate ourselves and the world around us with more awareness, clarity, wisdom, love, joy and compassion. We make friends with ourselves and our experience.
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The origins of mindfulness
While Mindfulness can be learned in a secular, non religious way, it can be useful to understand the background to mindfulness.
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Mindfulness meditation is an awareness practice originating 2500 years ago in Buddhist meditation practices and other spiritual traditions worldwide.
For Buddhists, meditation and mindfulness is a spiritual practice which can lead to enlightenment, or the full realisation of who we are in our essence.
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Buddhist meditation practices currently being researched include Calm Abiding and Insight, both of which entail practising Mindfulness. Calm Abiding involves learning to settle and focus the mind, resulting in feeling calmer, more at peace with a greater feeling of well being. With this greater focus one then has the stability and clarity to begin Insight Meditation – investigating the nature of mind and phenomena in an experiential way.
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The Benefits of Mindfulness
For centuries meditators, doctors and healers in eastern traditions have found that mindfulness and meditation improve health and well-being. Recent scientific research has documented how regular meditation and mindfulness helps many health problems, including heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insomnia, chronic pain, cancer, immune problems, stress and depression. Recently the NHS had taken Mindfulness on board.
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Mindfulness Coaching and Mindful Creativity Coaching
Mindful Life Coaching and Mindful Creativity Coaching aim to help you become more aware so that you are better placed to make choices that really help you integrate who you are with what you do.
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As an awareness tool, Mindfulness is an ideal partner to Life Coaching and Creativity Coaching in helping you to understand yourself better and enjoying life more.
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Mindfulness learned from an experienced teacher or coach can really complement and deepen your coaching experience. As there are a lot of misunderstandings about what mindfulness and meditation really are, it is important to learn mindfulness or meditation from someone who is experienced with an established long term training and practice learned from a qualified meditation teacher.
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I have been training in Buddhist meditation for 18 years. I am a qualified teacher (University of Cambridge UK) and Life Coach. I have been studying Buddhist Mahamudra and Dzogchen with Mingyur Rinpoche and also studied on a secular 8 week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Course with the University of Bangor. I was a Buddhist nun for seven years. I also have a Masters Degree in Fine Art and have been exploring ways of integrating art and meditation since 2005.
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The meditation and mindfulness I teach and coach with is entirely secular and can be practised by people of any faith or none.
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Phone 01379 897393 for a free 20 minute consultation when you can ask any questions and explore whether coaching would be beneficial for you.
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Who is suited to coaching?
Not everyone is ready for coaching.
Things that will tell us whether you would benefit from Coaching are:
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Do you want to take ownership for moving forward in your life?
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You may be confused or not know which way to go - this is why you may be wanting coaching. But are you motivated to take ownership for making changes - with help - in your life?
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Are you prepared to put effort in to making your goal/s a reality? You may not know how to do this, as this is one purpose of having coaching sessions, but are you prepared put energy into exploring the goals you have defined during your coaching sessions with me?
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Life Coaching is not suitable if you have issues better explored through therapy or counselling such as significant substance abuse issues, experience of physical or emotional abuse and need support with it, mental illness such as extreme mood swings, ongoing depression which you need support with​
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Phone 01379 897393 for a free 20 minute consultation when you can ask any questions and explore whether coaching would be beneficial for you.
We are all creative. That is our nature.
Everything we do, think and feel is creative.
We are also trying to be happy. and live a fruitful and meaningful life.
Sometimes our efforts to create happiness in our life cause us more suffering than joy.
Sometimes we feel happy for no reason.
When we feel blocked, resistant, depressed, anxious, confused, or are straining to be someone else's idea of what we should be, this is reflected in our creative expression and quality of life. We can feel frozen, depressed, anxious, limited, frustrated and often not open - in other words, stuck.
What Clients say
"I feel amazingly freed - I don't feel as if I am now carrying round the burdens I was carrying when I walked in through the door. Zangmo has enabled me to feel better even in one session. I am looking forward to learning more and practising what I learned today"
- J.M, Bury St Edmunds
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"I always find myself relaxing and feeling inspired within the first few minutes of arriving for a session with Zangmo. She radiates warmth and joyfulness, with the stillness and vitality of someone who has clearly spent many years meditating. I’ve found her a very generous teacher for meditation, art business and life coaching, and find her one of those teachers who makes a big difference."
- C.M. Norwich
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"I want to thank Zangmo Alexander for her help and support with some serious issues in my life. She is a caring, supportive individual that can almost see into your soul. She has helped me clarify many recent issues plus helped with an "action plan" for dealing with these issues. Her coaching is incredibly astute and personal. I would recommend those of you considering coaching to contact Zangmo."
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"Again, keep doing what you do for people as it is marvellous!"
- K.G
About Zangmo Alexander MA PGCE MAC
I am a qualified Coach, Art Teacher and Professional Artist with over fifteen years' experience studying and practising mindful awareness meditation. A member of the Association for Coaching, I offer completely confidential Life Coaching, Spirituality Coaching, Mindful Creativity Coaching and Mentoring sessions in person, online and by phone to help you work through issues to discover who you really are, enabling you to live more creatively, joyously and compassionately.
We can use a wide range of methods drawn from meditation, mindfulness, coaching, teaching, expressive art and therapeutic art as needed to help you clarify your deepest values, aspirations and beliefs and help you discover ways to express yourself that feel most meaningful and authentic.