Coaching the artist within : advice for writers, actors, visual artists & musicians from America's foremost creativity coach
Maisel, Eric, 1947-2005
Book
Twelve self-coaching lessons that cover a variety of issues, featuring insights from poets, novelists, filmmakers, dancers & other creative types. Creativity Coaching Essentials shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel, a leading creativity coach, writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore and reflect on underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create. Topics include committing, planning and doing, generating mental energy, achieving a centered presence, becoming an anxiety expert, upholding your dream, and maintaining a creative life. Maisel has worked extensively with creative people ? poets, filmmakers, novelists, dancers ? and he revisits some of them in coaching sessions in San Francisco, Paris, London, and New York. Typical are the rock musician who wants to pursue a solo career and the screenwriter anxious to become a poet. Their examples both entertain and instruct, outlining how to discover one's personal muse ? and the motivation to keep creating.
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Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
Novato, Calif. : New World Library : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
Collation:
xxv, 226 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.
ISBN:
9781577314646 (pbk alk paper)
Dewey class:
153.35
LC class:
BF408
Language:
English
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BRN:
118658