Coaching
Are you questioning direction or ready to make way for transformation in your life, your work or both?
I coach humans toward tapping and sustaining their full potential.
When you work with me, we assess your needs, connect to purpose, and bring the inner resources you already possess to light. We work so that you can be your fullest self, the powerhouse of life and insight you are born to be.
Curious? Find out more, below.
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WHY I COACH
I believe our world has the capacity to thrive and you as a human lead the way.
You instinctively know how to think outside the box and be resourceful. You recognize the value that is gained through experiential learning, hands-on understanding, and the ability to put oneself out there. You know how to risk, trust, and connect to the elements and ideas that feel vital to well being. You have the ability to connect deeply to needs and to embody the essential skills needed for survival. I support you.
SERVICES
For individuals.
My coaching brings clarity to challenges and sticking points you may be encountering in your life, work or both.
Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe you feel you’ve plateaued in your work. Maybe you sense that you are moving toward a new way of seeing but can’t quite turn the corner. My clients are ready to seek within the unknown. In our work together, I meet you where you are: strengthening your capacity to engage with insights and changes both large and small.
INITIAL CONSULTATION IS FREE
Contact me to schedule a free 45-minute conversation where I can get a sense of your needs and goals. We’ll also talk over my process, rates and scheduling.
WORKING WITH ME
New clients work with me for a period of 3-12 months. The pace and frequency with which we meet is based upon the nature of your challenge.
For organizations.
I work with a variety of organizations and institutions in departments within their for-profit or nonprofit systems. I have helped leaders identify areas of change and navigate sticky points. I have also worked with organizations offering grants and programs — coaching grantees and as well as consulting on the programmatic level. I tailor my services specifically to your organization’s needs. Please contact me to explore this offering.
MORE ABOUT ME
I understand the peculiar impasses that we face oftentimes alone: overwhelming doubt, lack of clarity around purpose, misunderstanding of need, and the inability to overcome expectations — to name just a few.
In my double life as a coach and as a practicing artist, teacher, weaver, and mentor, I’ve discovered that my strength is in holding many threads, seeing intention, identifying obstacles, and moving with you toward what is waiting, glimmering in the dark.
Coaching is presence and I offer that fully through an individualized process. My services are for anyone ready to shift, move, change, grow. The call to transform comes with a pang of clarity and a new sense of accountability. I help you heed it.
I am a student of human possibility.
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Watch me talk more about why and how I coach here.
You can also listen to me discuss how my artistic and coaching practices connect here on Seamside with Zak Foster.
WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY
“Working with Rachel is a perfect opportunity for any creative who finds themself in a place where they need to make a decision or take a turn in their career to accelerate themselves. Rachel is a conduit of clarity and balance.”
—SaraBeth Post, Glass Artist
“Rachel offers an invaluable opportunity for true insight. As a young artist with a widely ranging interdisciplinary practice, it is not easy to find a guide or mentor figure who is capably adaptive as Rachel - she meets artists where they are and brings her powers of seeing and understanding to bear whatever the content or material at hand. I had a great time working with Rachel, and would recommend it to any artist whether they are actively in search of guidance or not.”
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Scott Vander Veen, Visual Artist
“The opportunity to work with Rachel as I began an artist residency program gave me space to say out loud the swirl of thoughts, ideas, plans, dreams, and fears circling in my mind. In doing so, it created a space for these thoughts to land and be looked at. Rachel sees past what feels chaotic, unrelated, and unimportant and provides concise logic and sensitivity in identifying how to move forward with an underlying foundation that is supportive of both reflection and growth.”
Ellie Richards, Furniture Designer & Sculptor
“The service Rachel offers is invaluable to me. Rather than approaching my issues with a quick fix, she listened and guided me through a layered process of active reflection. I felt, talking with her over time, that I had more space around the issues I had presented to her. I found more clarity and confidence in my ability to work with difficulties rather than have them overwhelm me in my creative process. Thank you, Rachel!”
Elaine Bleakney, Author
“As a textile artist and footwear designer, I'm used to solving problems creatively... in the studio. But for some reason, those problem-solving skills weren't translating into other areas of my life. I felt really stuck. Diving deep with Rachel refocused my attention on a problem I've been struggling with for years; her generosity and openness allowed me to face the issue head on, and her thoughtful approach guided me down a new path of accountability and resolve.”