Kaizen-Muse: A Different Approach to Creativity Coaching
A variety of creativity coaching training and certification programs exist, and if you're seeking a compassionate, non-linear, intuitive-based coaching model that honors the kid-like creative spirit inside and gives you permission to be imperfect, play, and lower your expectations (in a good way!) in our highly competitive and pressuring world, Creativity Portal recommends looking at the Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™ program developed by Jill Badonsky, MeD, and Robert Maurer, PhD.

KMCC tools will deepen your own creative experience and have awakened creativity and joy in thousands.

The KMCC program offers innovative online and telecourse training, collaborative community, social networking, and post-training support designed to provide you with a career path filled with the brilliance, abundance and reward of coaching others to life-changing results.

The training is customized for both individuals and organizations interested in the tools that have empowered thousands since 1985 to reach creative dreams, business goals and the blessing of living an authentic life. Plus, it’s fun — we believe playfulness is vital to the generation of creative ideas and is not just for kids anymore.

Additional Coach Training Resources
Creativity coach training courses are also offered by Eric Maisel, PhD, and the Creativity Coaching Association (CCA).

Highlight Picks

Seeing Like an Artist: Edges and Space
Do you ever get frustrated when you're trying to draw something you're looking at, and just can't get the shapes to look right? ... Humans have instinctively viewed the world as positive and negative space. ... Drawing is easier when you know how to use positive and negative space.

Are You Highly Creative?
Consider just a few of the 15 questions:

Have you been told you "think too much" or are "too much of a perfectionist"?
Do/did your school teachers berate you for daydreaming or staring out the window?
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the numerous ideas and projects you generate?
Have you been told you are "too sensitive"?

Learn more about your creative spirit.

Crafting Your Business Vision and Values
Where Is Your Business Headed, and What Do You and Your Company Stand For? Your work, like that of most creative entrepreneurs, expresses who you are. Your creative business reflects your vision, values, and voice.

Your vision is the big picture of your business (and your life). It's where you see yourself heading and includes how you're making a positive difference, what success looks and feels like to you, and what makes life and work ripe with fulfillment and meaning.

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training

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Creativity Coaching Training Programs & Coaches

Welcome to Creativity Portal's Creativity Coaching section. If you're looking for information about working with or becoming a professional certified creativity coach, you'll find the information on this page helpful to sorting through the many options available to you.

Please see the left menu for our recommendations in professional online and telecourse creativity coach trainers and certification programs, in particular, the Kaizen-Muse™ coaching model developed by Jill Badonsky, MeD, and Robert Maurer, PhD, and trainings offered by Eric Maisel, PhD.

Featured Creativity Coaches

Want to be on this list? If you're a practicing trained creativity coach or professional specializing in working with creative people, ask about becoming an article series author. See our submission guidelines.

If you're interested in working with a trained creativity coach, you can sample the styles, models, philosophies, and approaches from a variety of professionals who are active series authors in the Creativity Portal Web community.

The following coaches have recently submitted articles, prompts, exercises, and other expertise to our Web site to help inspire and support you in your creative life no matter where you may be as an artist, writer, performer, scientist, inventor, engineer or other kind of creative person. Coaches often offer a free sample coaching session if you're interested in working with them — please contact them via the information provided at the end of their articles to find out more specifics.

2012 Contributors to Creativity Portal

Contributing coaches from previous years are archived here.

Chris Dunmire
Writer, artist, humorist, and Creativity Portal® founder. With compassionate listening, affirming mentoring, and a genuinely warm and friendly coaching style, Chris empowers clients to explore and engage more joyfully in their creative work with gentle accountability, lowered expectations, and optional play.

Jill Badonsky
Nationally recognized workshop leader, artist, performer, humorist, and author. Founder of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™.

Ralph Dranow
Writer and editor; founder of Ring of Truth Writing and Editing. Have you written something deep and passionate but feel that the writing is not quite there yet? Ralph helps make the writing flow so that clients feel their ideas and feelings have been given their strongest expression.

Tom Evans
Author's mentor, writer's unblocker, creativity coach, publishing consultant, epublishing specialist, and literary agent.

Diana Rivera
Performing Artist, Producer and Facilitator of drama, arts-integration in the classroom and creative empowerment coach.

Jeannine McGlade
Author and coach in the field of creativity and innovation. Helps individuals from stay-at-home parents to CEOs get out of a creative rut and release their creative energy.

Naomi Rose
'Writing from the Deeper Self' author, creativity coach, and book developer with over 20 years in the field.

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