What a Creativity Coaching client needs most from a Coach is accountability and support. Support normally comes in the form of compassion and kindness. People need support because it's difficult to "self support" especially if they have been failing in life. People can be harsh with themselves and their self talk is not always as supportive as it can be.

A Creativity Coach is someone you can talk to about your work. You can speak with one about the problems of your fading dreams, about the gap between your dreams and reality. A creativity coach is there to say, "I think you can do it and I'm here to help you" A creativity coach can also offer more practical help and unlike a psychiatrist can get more involved in your (creative) life. Often Creativity Coaches have an area of expertise and may help with certain aspects of the creative profession that you are involved in.

Support can mean different things to different people and the kind of support the coach offers is heavily dependent on the kind of creativity activity the Creativity Coaching Client may be involved in. It could be practical support like pointing a client in the direction of an arts website or it could be more psychological like for example working with negative self talk. It should also always be an attitude on the part of the coach.

One way a coach may offer practical support to Creative is by speaking with them about starting a new routine. For example writing in the morning before the emails are looked at.

Getting a client to embrace their anxiety is another way a Creativity Coach can be very supportive. Creative anxiety is not often talked about and it's something that even the most experienced creative might not be aware of.

Finally other ways of offering support could be by getting your client to reflect and think more deeply. Getting to them to forgive themselves and Telling them that it is not too late or that they have got it in them

For better written information about Creativity Coaching contact Tom Binns at the Creativity Practice.