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Creative Emergence coaching

Consciously Creating What's Next in Your Work & Life
With Michelle James

• Are you called to birth something meaningful into the world? • Do you wonder about what's yours to do now, in an uncertain world? • Do you have so much more still inside of you longing for expression? • Are you a multidimensional person who doesn't easily fit in to one pre-existing niche? • Do you want to create unique offerings for your clients or participants? • Are you ready to craft a next chapter that lights you up? If so, you're in the right place!

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Hi and welcome! I developed Creative Emergence Coaching for those ready to birth something new and next while you expand your creative self and learn how to navigate in uncertainty. We dive deep into what's calling to emerge from within you. I am a creative emergence coach and "midwife" who will help you create what's next out into the world - even when you are still unsure about what that is when we start. We work from the inside-out, unearthing and cultivating what's underneath the surface - your inner resources and engage emergence. Then what you create and become is aligned with who YOU are, who you serve, and what's most alive and meaningful for you. In sessions, we work creatively and emergently to support you to:
  • Discover, design, and develop what’s next
  • Develop and structure your unique work, style, or approach
  • Break patterns to increase your aliveness and resilience
  • Make the unknown a resourceful, co-creative partner
  • Enhance your creative capacities to meet today's world
  • Strengthen your leadership presence and agency
  • Create unique services, products, and programs
  • Work with your inner compass, become intentionally directed
  • Activate your creative imagination
  • Learn to sense and feel into what's calling to emerge
  • Embody your agency and creative empowerment
  • Navigate uncertainty with greater ease
  • Align your ideas and offerings to be coherent and resonant with who you really are, and what you are here to do

Who is this for?

  • Entrepreneurs who want to develop unique approach, products, and services, or your coaching/consulting/healing business
  • Visionaries with various interests and talents who want to discover and develop your creative self and your "core offering"
  • Content and Course Creators who want to create unique, memorable, engaging content and courses
  • Leaders who want to draw out and focus the creativity and ingenuity of your team - and your leadership
  • Facilitators and Coaches who want to bring out your own creativity and your participants/clients creativity
  • Psychologists, healers, therapists and practitioners who want to support your clients in creative new ways
  • Those in a life transition holding the question "What's mine to do - now and next?"
And those who want to:
  • Get more clarity about what's next
  • Move through doubts and creative blocks
  • Do the things you feel you were born to do
  • Overcome imposter syndrome or fear of failure
  • Have a more peaceful inner creative sanctuary
  • Move from being a reactor to being a creator
  • Want to move forward authentically with more confidence
  • Use your unique set of gifts, skills, drives, and talents
I work with my clients at the intersection of the known an the unknown
  • "Michelle helped me learn to embrace the gift in the unknown. She taught me how to turn to my own creative source for answers, and find my inner advocate. And she supported me to design a business, based on my heart, hopes, and dreams. Michelle’s guidance helped mold the person I am today, and the success of my business." Crystal Gornto Founder, HeartStories.com
  • "I can hardly believe how easy the breakthrough came. Working with Michelle changed our business strategy. We now have a whole new unique position defined. Her creative emergence process works. I came away with a clearly defined direction." Cindy Atlee CEO, Storybranding group
  • "Michelle has a true genius when it comes to coaching and facilitating creative emergence. Her coaching was instrumental in the early years of creating and shaping my business. You will be hard-pressed to find anyone who better understands the essential principles at the heart of the creative process, and how to apply them to any business context." Michael Margolis CEO, Storied
  • "Michelle is masterful at creating conditions and environments for people to channel their creative energy behind real business objectives. With her coaching, my facilitation style profoundly changed. She helped me internalize creativity principles that infuse my work transforming organizational culture with quite extraordinary results." Alicia Korton CEO, The Culture Company
  • "Michelle is my mentor for teaching facilitation skills employing Improv principles and practices. She helped me create the applied improvisation section of my training manual that has served facilitators around the world. She is a walking treasure trove of creative insights and possibilities. I adore every minute collaborating with her and recommend her highly." Paul Scheele CEO, Scheele Learning Systems

Integrative Creative & Emergent Approach

In our dynamic sessions, we engage the natural process of emergence with an integration of whole-brain, whole-body, whole-self creative processes and practices to bypass the conscious "editor" and habitual thinking, and bring you deeply into your creative self and into the "field" where next-level insights, directions, and structures emerge. It is both an intuitive and grounded, practical approach.
In our sessions, we work with three dimensions at the same time to accelerate shifts and create lasting changes: 1. Inner landscape - ways of being 2. Framework and lens - ways of perceiving3. Outer expression - ways of doing This process uses the integration of the left and right brain, logic and intuition, heart and head, mind and body, and being and doing - using both masculine (linear, structure-based) and feminine (nonlinear, flow-centered) creative approaches. My approach is also based in moving from either/or (i.e., either make money or do what's most alive in you) to both/and (i.e., make money doing what's most alive in you). It's about living into a larger, life-affirming new framework that can hold the multi-dimensionality of being human in this world. In this process, you'll learn how to sense into a greater field of awareness and trust your "creative source" – the creative, animating, life-generating, alive part of you – which leads you to becoming self-directed and more creatively empowered, and in touch with your presence, and your unique, wise, creative self.
Your Unique Calling
When we feel connected to what's ours to do - what we are uniquely designed to do - it acts like a compass, even in a storm or fog. Something inside of us lights up to guide the way, one step at a time. I work with clients in the circles of what you're designed to do, and what's yours to do now and next: from discovering it, cultivating it, shaping and forming it, to creatively expressing it in the world - with practical, tangible results.
Holistically generative Work
Part of my own unique signature approach is my Holistically Generative Work© Model. It forms the basis for my coaching - supporting clients in designing and creating work that is generative in all 4 domains:
  • Creatively - expresses your unique creativity and aliveness
  • Soulfully - is purposeful and meaningful to you
  • Financially - you make money doing it
  • Humanely - serves others and the greater good

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