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Arts leadership and the divided brain
🌼 Balancing creativity with administrative responsibility I spent thirty years of my creative career running arts and creative companies, I’m now an executive and creative coach working with artists and leaders. Two of my executive clients recently came to me with the same challenge – a frustration at trying to balance creative work with their duties as senior executives running venues. Both felt they had to almost split themselves in two, having two different personalities
tom harvey
2 days ago4 min read


Writers - Working with threshold moments.
Writers - here is a different approach to structure. It's a way of writing into the energy of the work and avoiding endless post-it-notes...
tom harvey
Aug 41 min read


tom harvey
Aug 40 min read


When a story doesn't want to be found
Hot air balloon rising through the stor Right now, I’m well and truly stuck with a story. 😝 I’m three quarters of the way through a first draft. It really feels uncomfortable. It isn’t working. I’m not finding it. I know the ending I want. But I haven’t earned that ending in any way. I’m writing towards the ending, but it feels very weak. The story has begun in a very different way than I expected, and I’m wondering if my beginning heads towards the ending at all. If it does
tom harvey
May 314 min read


Finding Flow: Ideas for Peak Creative Performance
🌼 Understanding the Writer’s Flow State Do you think consciously about getting into a flow state, or does it just happen for you? I talk...
tom harvey
May 106 min read


Writer coaching in action
If you're wondering what writer coaching is or what it does, here's your answer. Pippa Gough introduces Phil Hayes and Tom Harvey...
tom harvey
May 11 min read


Review Your Creative Life
A Complimentary Creative Coaching Session to Focus Your Artistic Approach
tom harvey
Jan 62 min read


Writer Coaching will not get you an agent, get you published or make you famous. But...
...it WILL make you a happy writer!
tom harvey
Dec 13, 20242 min read


How to be a better writer
Coaching helped the client find clarity and discover flow again.
tom harvey
Nov 28, 20242 min read


Writer coaching with metaphors
I’m curious about the language clients use, words can seem so simple but can cover a huge range of complexity. Often images, symbols and...
tom harvey
Nov 21, 20243 min read


Coaching and hyperfocus
A friend talked to me about my coaching and we realised that my neuro-diversity provides me with the ability to hyperfocus in coaching...
tom harvey
Nov 7, 20241 min read


Story Coaching – What it is and why it Works
Story Coaching is a one-one, confidential, bespoke service aimed at helping a writer to develop their story, and their writing ability.
tom harvey
Sep 27, 20244 min read


Unlocking Story Potential: How Creative Story Coaching Enriches the Writing Process
I wondered, if the meaning of a story is locked tight in the subconscious, then could coaching help surface it?
tom harvey
Sep 11, 20243 min read

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