Main description:

This book uniquely identifies the five key emotions that prevent clients reaching their full creative potential and provides coaches tools to help them overcome them, boosting their productivity as well as their ability to complete and promote their work and personal development.

Accessible and personable, Rahti Gorfien interweaves stories from her personal life and private practice to alleviate the burden of blockages creatives generated by their own divergent thinking, unconscious conditioning, and memory. She takes each mindset in turn, shame, grandiosity, envy, boredom, and fear, and explores each emotion and how coaches can practically help clients overcome them to achieve creative freedom and success personally and professionally. Filled with practical exercises and coaching theory throughout, this book will equip coaches with tools to inspire confidence in their clients to share their work with the world, silencing negative inner voices and fulfilling their professional creative goals.

This book is invaluable reading for coaches as well as artists, entrepreneurs, therapists, career advisors, social workers and those interested in finding methods of overcoming personal obstacles to making meaningful and authentic contributions through the freedom of their singular and passionate pursuits.

Contents:

Foreword by Eric Maisel Preface Acknowledgements Why This Book Exists Introduction: From Theater Artist to Coach How This Book is Structured Part One: Cracking the Code of Resistance 1. What Stops Us? 2. The Five Emotions We Need To Tame? Part Two: Deep Dive into the Big Five 3. Shame 4. Grandiosity 5. Envy 6. Boredom 7. Fear 8. Mask Emotions Part Three: What's Possible From Here On 9. The Five Emotions Cheat Sheet 10. Additional Tools to Disrupt Problem Thinking Conclusion