Coaching happens in the gap between where you are and where you want to be

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Dear Friends in Christ,

Attached 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 or Email the word COACHING for information on private breakthrough coaching and/or groups for Catholic creatives.

Text: 631-235-9340

Email: lisa@mladinich.com

Coaching is About Your BEST Life:

• Breakthrough: a prayerfully facilitated exploration of your challenges, personal values, dreams, and goals brings accelerated progress toward living a powerful life
• Empowerment: learning to live into your authentic values and vision creates clarity and momentum, as you acquire skills that last a lifetime
• Satisfaction: learning and growing beyond your expectations, while knocking down barriers to success
• Teaching: optional group sessions provide a like-minded association of Catholic creatives prayerfully connecting and providing support, as participants learn from each other’s insights, struggles, and successes

Private Coaching:

• 1 free, private introductory session to help you decide if coaching is for you
• 3 private, 45-minute sessions per month, by phone
• Sessions begin with a brief prayer, which you may lead if you like
• Each session is a gentle, guided exploration of whatever brings you to the coaching conversation
• As the client, you are always in charge of the focus of every session
• As your coach, I listen deeply and prayerfully to what God is speaking into your heart
• I stay open to wherever that exploration takes us and ask powerful questions that help you step into new perspectives
• Coaching provides clarity that allows us to co-design steps toward your goals, with your preferred level of accountability
• Many additional resources are provided or recommended, as needed
• It is my pleasure to provide ongoing support between sessions
• $180 per month

Breakthrough Group Coaching:

• 1 free, private introductory session before your group begins
• 2 group sessions per month, online
• 1 private lesson per month, by phone
• No more than five participants to a group
• Every online session includes a short presentation on a topic of interest to the group
• One-on-one coaching, LIVE, in the group–with each participant in control of the focus of their coaching
• Takeaways, support, and observations from the group accelerate growth
• $125 per month

CREATIVITY BOOSTERS (summarized from recent webinar)

1. Mind-mapping for non-linear brainstorming: https://www.mindmapping.com/mind-map.php
2. Writing with pen and paper to get ideas moving faster
3. Working out to release the subconscious
4. Napping to awaken to creative ideas
5. Dressing up to change your perspective
6. 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

values-exercise (superb worksheet for identifying core values, as a basis for visioning and purpose work)

Creating a Statement of VisionPurposeMission (worksheet with Scriptures)

18-Wheel-of-Life-Exercise

LIFE_CALLING_ASSESSMENT

Goal-setting Worksheet (.jpg)

Remember that you are irrevocably gifted and called:

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

(Romans 11:29)