Writing Coaching!
what is it and why should you pay me for it?
Great question!
When I work with you I’m looking at the whole ecosystem of how you approach your writing ‘assignment’, from personal beliefs (like: writers are always depressed) to figuring out how different contexts (like: I hate the software we have to use to file our monthly progress report!) affect your ability or willingness to sit down and write.
People hire me as their writing coach so that they can fully, truly, deeply:
Understand what they want or need to say
Own their own power, commitment and brilliance
Communicate ideas so that the intended audience not only gets it but is ready and willing to take action
some successful client stories?
Full ride to a prestigious 2-year masters program at NYU
Re-write of website leading to multiple clients for an eco-architect
Winning preferred contractor status to the NYC DOJ as a provider of trauma-informed training for frontline workers
Transforming content creation for a money coach by replacing boilerplate with ideas drawn from her background as a circus clown
a bit of personal history
When I was in my late 20’s my ballet master in New York asked me to start a beginning adult class. I’d been teaching for years, but building up a class from scratch was something new. I realized immediately that the first thing was to make it safe for each student to imagine themselves a dancer, no matter what their abilities or prior knowledge of 5th position.
They needed a foundation of trust: in me, in the class structure, in self-expression.
Writing is just like dancing
We are all communicating, all the time. Sometimes we choose, or have to do it, through words that other people read. The question is, what are we really saying?
As a writer you are initiating a conversation. And your heart’s desire is to be heard.
So… what exactly will we do together?
What you need is personal to you. Building a safe writing foundation while meeting the requirements of professional or personal assignments is always highly nuanced. So, what we do is co-created.
This is why my tools—beyond decades of writing, editing and teaching and and my (vast and varied!) knowledge of what it means to work, manage and produce in different professional, cultural and language contexts—include dance improvisation structures and choreographic exercises translated into writing exercises, free and timed writing practices, guided somatic meditation, and certification as an Emotion Code® Practitioner and as a Three Doors Presenter.
“I felt taken into account as a full person. Lise really stays present. She found the tiny little things that turn me on and made it possible for me to start thinking about writing as a practice, which hadn’t occurred to me before. It’s so easy for her that she doesn’t seem to think it’s a superpower!
- Olivia Lehrman Sblendoiro, Land-in-the-Net Money Coach
Interested? Click the button below to learn more about working with me on your writing.