Coaching the Artist Within: Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America's Foremost Creativity Coach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781577314646)

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.

Author: Eric Maisel
ISBN-10: 1577314646
ISBN-13: 9781577314646
Publisher: New World Library
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.50w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 05/01/2005 pg. 69
Booklist 01/01/2005 pg. 789
Foreword 08/19/2009