Dear Readers,
These are the resources I shared in my recent webinar for Catholic creatives, utilizing coaching techniques to break through in life and art. Please feel free to email me with questions or to request additional resources. I may eventually create a monthly newsletter for breakthrough resources if it seems helpful, but in the meantime, I will keep updating this page.
Text: 631-235-9340
Email: lisa@mladinich.com
Text or Email the word GROUP for information on breakthrough groups for creatives
- 1 to 3 times monthly? tell me what you want, and I’ll create affordable packages for small groups (more information to come)
- No more than five participants to a group
- Short presentation on topic of interest to the group
- One-on-one coaching, LIVE–with you in control of the focus
- Takeaways and observations from the group
Short survey on your top ten challenges as a creative person (to come)
- i.e. time, inspiration, confidence, blocks, distractibility, decision-making, self-discipline, organization, health, finances…
- Breakthrough sessions will address the most popular challenges from your answers
- Each participant will choose their own individual focus in each session
- Participants choose their own tasks and level of accountability
- Affordable, but also a special offer for group-building (bring someone into the group and receive a discount on your monthly contribution)
Coaching happens in the gap between where you are and where you want to be

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Article on the benefits of a coaching culture in organizations: https://business.inquirer.net/238234/benefits-coaching-culture
Group Coaching for Creatives
Breakthrough: a facilitated exploration of challenges, creative techniques, personal values, dreams, and goals brings accelerated progress toward living powerfully
Community: like-minded association of creatives connecting and providing prayerful support
Growth: learning from each other’s insights, struggles, and successes
Satisfaction: helping each other learn and grow, while knocking down barriers to success in your own life
Empowerment: learning to live into your values and vision, while developing a coaching mentality helps you to help yourself and others throughout your life in all your spheres of influence
CREATIVITY BOOSTERS
- Mind-mapping for non-linear brainstorming: https://www.mindmapping.com/mind-map.php
- Writing with pen and paper to get ideas moving faster
- Working out to release the subconscious
- Napping to awaken to creative ideas
- Dressing up to change your perspective
- Reading to calm your brain and generate ideas
RIGHT-BRAIN ACTIVATORS
Asking open questions: who, what, why, how, when?
Doing something backward (writing, walking, using your non-dominant hand)
Naming wrong (spend a few minutes pointing at things and saying the wrong name for them)
Sensory stimulation (get outside and use your senses)
Breakthrough Resources
FREE self-assessment tools for gifts and clarifying purpose: (Perhaps start with the VIA strengths test—a well-regarded alternative to Clifton Strengths.) This site has other assessments as well. https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter
Creating a Statement of VisionPurposeMission (worksheet with Scriptures)
Goal-setting Worksheet (.jpg)