Coaching Methodology: What a coaching session looks like

Coaching sessions take place online or in-person. In contrast to mentoring, advising and supervision, coaching is client-centered and each session opens exploring what the client seeks to accomplish in their 50-minute session and what session outcomes would look like. An NYU-trained coach, I use coaching methodologies approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) supporting artists in the ideation of their goals and ways forward. The Coach opens the session and confirms what the artist wants to accomplish in session and how the artist defines measures of success.

1. Coach and Client explore the client reality (raising awareness of the situation)

2. Coach and Client Explore Options and Possibilities

3. Reflect back Client’s expressed possibilities from which to choose

4. Coach and Client identify ways forward.

Through one to one and small group sessions, I support local and visiting artists maximize their experience in residency programs, build thriving studio practices professional approaches to working as an artist. I also support artists in building relationships with galleries and museums.

A multimedia artist based in New York since 2001, I am founder of FormLAB - a multimedia arts series that has exhibited in New York, Seoul, Beijing and Sao Paulo. I coach artists at University of Melbourne, museum professionals at Yale, MFAs at Columbia University School of the Arts. Educated in London I have a BA Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College of Art, MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths, Masters in Fine Art from Musashino Art University, Japan, PhD from Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology and Post doctorate from the School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo, Brazil.

I served on the curatorial team for the inaugural Taipei Biennial “Sites of Desire” exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in 1998 and have curated exhibitions in London, Tokyo and New Delhi and am founder of the Inclusive Biennial which will showcase artists exploring regional identities. Recipient of the 2022 Fulbright Professional and Academic Excellence Award, I served as Senior Scholar in Art and Performance at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi, India and am initiating India’s first coaching program to serve tribal communities. i have been resident artist at the Bauhaus (Germany/Singapore), Beijing Inside Out Art Museum (China), ByWoods (Taiwan), National Museum of Taiwanese Literature (Taiwan), Seoul Foundation for Art & Culture (South Korea), Treignac Projet (France) and Resident Associate Professor at Visva Bharati University, West Bengal.

I began coaching in 2000 and began mentoring artist and creative entrepreneurs at Cue Art Foundation in 2005. I have continued to coach and mentor creative industries professionals at NYFA and now at Columbia and Fulbright. In 2019, I initiated coaching Yale Center for British Art as a way to forge new pathways for underrepresented voices in cultural leadership. I serve as a leadership coach and mentor at Almaworks, Columbia University’s start-up incubator in New York and am a Creative Entrepreneurship Coach at Parsons School of Design and I coach at Columbia, California State University and have lectured on coaching at Columbia University and National Taiwan Normal University. I trained in coaching at New York University (2019) with additional training in group coaching (GCHQ, New York) and am a University of London trained GoldAward® Mentor trained to work with creative professionals. At Columbia University, I research the futures of coaching in the creative industries. I serve as Coach in Residence at Columbia Almaworks Start up Incubator.

Qualifications NYU-trained Coach and Mentor, Columbia University Research Scholar on Coaching and Mentorship, GCHQ / ICF trained Group Coach, GoldAward Creative Mentor, University of London, Entrepreneurship Coach, Parsons School of Design, Fulbright Senior Scholar Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Erasmus Scholar, Ecole des Beaux-arts, Paris.

Individual and Group Coaching

Working directly with each client, their teams in person, by phone and Zoom.