Creative Mentoring
Gentle, generative support for writers, artists, and creative humans finding their way back to the work.
Creative Mentoring offers a spacious, relational place to think, make, experiment, and reconnect with your creative voice.
This is not therapy. And it’s not productivity coaching. It’s a thoughtful, collaborative space for creative practice to unfold in its own rhythm.
You don’t need to be polished.
You don’t need to be prolific.
You just need a willingness to stay curious.
Who This Space Is For
Depending on the context, offerings may explore:
+ Creative and expressive process
+ Embodied and somatic inquiry
+ Reflective practice and supervision themes
+ Ethics, care, and sustainability in relational work
+ Writing, poetry, and creative thinking
+ Place, land, and ecological attention
+ Working with complexity, transition, and change
Some offerings lean more personal, some more professional. Many sit somewhere in between.
You don’t need to identify as a “professional artist.”
If creativity matters to you, this space is for you.
How We Work
Creative Mentoring is collaborative, responsive, and process-led.
Together we may explore:
+ Writing prompts & generative exercises
+ Arts-based and imaginative processes
+ Reflective dialogue and meaning-making
+ Creative rhythm-building (rather than rigid routines)
+ Project development & manuscript support
+ Gentle accountability and momentum
+ Feedback that strengthens voice rather than flattens it
Sessions adapt to what’s alive for you, whether that’s idea-generation, refinement, courage, or rest.
Extended project or manuscript support is available by request.
What Sessions Feel Like
Most people describe these sessions as clarifying, energising, grounding, and creatively relieving. Sessions are:
+ Online (Zoom) (tea, notebooks, dogs, messy desks welcome)
+ Spacious, conversational, and creatively focused
+ No pressure to “produce” on demand
+ We can work with writing, images, objects, movement, or conversation
+ Structure when helpful, looseness when needed
+ Encouraging, honest, and quietly catalytic
What This Is (and Isn’t)
Creative Mentoring Is:
+ About your creative practice
+ Focused on voice, process, and direction
+ Supportive without being therapeutic
+ Imaginative, thoughtful, and sustaining
Creative Mentoring Is Not:
+ Therapy or counseling
+ Crisis support
+ Formula-based coaching
( Some people work with me in both Creative Mentoring and Creative Arts Therapy at different times, depending on what support they need. )
Why People Choose Creative Mentoring
People often come to this work because they want:
+ Support without pathologising
+ Accountability without shame
+ Feedback without flattening their voice
+ Structure without rigidity
+ A mentor who understands sensitive, strange, nonlinear creative processes
This is a place to make work that feels like yours.
Practical Details
Session length: 55 minutes
Where: Online (Zoom) or occasional in-person sessions in Whāingaroa/Raglan
Fee: $180 per session
Cancellation: Full fee with less than 24 hours’ notice (except emergencies)
Creative Mentoring is available year-round, with limited spaces
What People Say
Words shared with permission from participants in creative mentoring and poetic practice spaces.
“I wanted a gate back into writing, and I got that. I stopped worrying about writing ‘good’ poems and started exploring what was possible.”
- Writer
“It has felt like a part of me has come home. I feel more myself, inspired and alive more of the time when I’m writing.”
- Poet
“My writing has more options now. I feel celebrated and encouraged to see my work, and myself, as valuable, which is such a gift.”
- Artist
“The accountability and consistency really mattered. Even noticing my resistance was part of the learning, and remembering how good it felt to return.”
- Musician
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. You don’t need formal training or to identify as a “professional.”
If creativity matters to you, this space is for you.
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No. Creative Mentoring focuses on creative practice, process, and projects.
It’s not therapy and doesn’t replace therapeutic support.
Some people work with me in both Creative Mentoring and Creative Arts Therapy at different times, depending on what they need.
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Each session is different. We might write together, reflect on work in progress, explore blocks, generate ideas, or gently shape a project forward.
There’s no pressure to produce or perform.
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Yes. Feedback and extended project or manuscript support are available by arrangement.
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No. A notebook and pen are plenty. We work with what you already have.
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No. Some people book a single session; others work together over time. We’ll find a rhythm that suits you.
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I work with adults (18+).