One-to-one sessions providing a supportive, emergent online or in-person space for enquiry, reflection or change engaging with specific life/art/work issues.
Coaching & Mentoring with Fern Smith
Personal website:
www.fernsmith.uk
I trained as a ‘Relational Dynamic 1st’ Coach as Arts Council of Wales Clore Leadership Fellow in 2010. I offer one-to-one coaching in person or online utilising embodiment and nature-based exercises, creative processes, and future visioning exercises according to who I am working with and what is needed. Having been an arts and health practitioner for four decades I also love mentoring artists, therapists, innovators and cultural leaders.
Individual sessions or a block available. Cost £60-£80/hour.
Mentoring for writers with Philip Ralph
Personal website:
www.philipralph.com
Phil has a lifetime of professional experience in the arts, first as an actor and for the past 20 years as an award-winning writer of TV, Film and Stage. Combined with his decades of experience as a retreat and rites of passage guide, Phil offers a calm, pragmatic, nurturing and generative mentoring space, aimed at bringing out the joy and love of creativity in his mentees. At a time of immense change and uncertainty, Phil offers grounded, realistic and practical listening, guidance, reflection and advice.
Individual sessions or a block available. Cost £60-£80/hour.
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Endorsements
Being mentored by Fern is to be held in the safe hands of an experienced artist and practitioner who really cares about our craft, brings into the room a lifetime career within the arts and who nurtures the environment both within her life & her work.
I approached Fern for coaching to support my new practice in anti-racism facilitation. I had around 8 sessions over an 18 month period and found them invaluable. A very productive experience at a big turning point in my work.
Having a space to talk freely helped me express how I was feeling and enabled me to think more objectively putting things in proportion. Being prompted by Fern to return to key subjects I’d decided to investigate helped me keep focus so I left each session with tangible solutions.
In each session, there was a goal that I wanted and needed to achieve before the next session. Between each session I had a journey to go on and then a place to come back to and a person to talk about it with. I wouldn’t have reflected on my work as much or gone as far, if I hadn’t had coaching with Fern.
Both Fern and Phil create a really safe and comfortable space. I felt I was able to really be myself, speak from my heart, and was empowered to do so.
Phil is an incredibly experienced writer with a wealth of knowledge who opened the door to listen, advise and hold space for me traversing the landscape of TV. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending him as a mentor. My experiences with Phil have always been generative and incredibly helpful.
Phil’s years of professional writing made him a sure-footed guide… and his expertise in running retreats made the experience an occasion for personal development as well.
Phil and Fern created such a safe and generative space with incredible skill, as they facilitated the journeys we each embarked on… it opened up a whole new dimension of life for me. It was a gift that keeps on giving.
Phil creates a space of emotional openness and generous helpfulness. He is always professional without being prescriptive, creating a calm, peaceful, safe and wonderful work process.