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Creativity Coaching -- Perfect for deepening into the creative process on any topic topic. Beth helps writers, artists, entrepreneurs and business professionals address any creative topic, including looking at their life through a creative lens.
What is a creativity coach? A creativity coach acts as a guide, provides guidance, and lends support. More questions answered on the FAQ page.
Click here for Beth's guiding philosophy on creativity and creativity coaching.
Are you ready to deepen your commitment to your writing? -- It takes a lot of courage to face the blank page and commit to becoming the writer you dreamed to be. Answer the questions below to see if are ready.
Workshops and Classes -- For upcoming workshops, check here. Beth gives workshops and classes at and to writing groups, writing associations and business and networking groups. Contact her for availability.
Support Forum -- Beth now offers support forum for those writing a book. A new forum is forming soon -- check here for details.
Consulting on the submission process -- As a fiction witer and published non-fiction writer, Beth knows what it takes to prepare your
writing to get it publication ready, what it takes to query agents and editors, send in proposals, and what you expect from the process. She also consults on the path to self-publication, from conception to choosing a printer.
Featured Testimonial -- From a recent client. Thank you!
Beth is available to give workshops to groups of twenty or more. She will tailor to the needs of your writing group, writing association or business.
Call to Action: The Writer's Adventure
"Creativity Techiques to Fill the Well"
"Fairytales,
Brainstorming Cards & Tarot: How to Plot Quickly and have Fun too!" The handout is available.
Book Writing from A to Z for Fiction Writers: Character. Plot and Passion, the Winning Combination
How to Craft a Winning Query Letter
How to Win Over an Agent with Your Elevator Pitch
Prime the Mind: Develop a Writing Discipline
Navigate the Maze of Self-Publishing
So You Want to Write a Nonfiction Book! Now what?
Start with Beth's nonfiction book resource page.
Contact Beth
For more information and to contact her to speak to your group, email Beth using her her handy contact form.
-- Susan Egan, New York City
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> Are you stuck in the submission process? Have you queried and gotten nowhere? Have you completed your manuscript and need
help on where to go from here? Do you need help finding the appropriate agents and editors?
As a working writer in both fiction and non-fiction, Beth has experience with the world of submissions. And most importantly, she is
ready to share with you the tricks of the trade. She can also help you come up with a plan of action, and even edit your work to
help you get it publication-ready.
Nonfiction? No problem! Before talking to Beth, check our her resource page, especially for nonfiction writers. And get started on your path to publication today!
Consult with Beth to:
Learn about and use market guides to find appropriate publishers and agents
Narrrow and refine your market search
Write and practice your 25-word elevator pitch
Draft a one-page query letter
Receive encouragement and useful feedback
Contact Beth to set up your appointment today. She will help you achieve your dreams of publication.
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Increase your creative flow?
Make time for writing?
Develop more regular habits?
Discover and strengthen your motivation ?
Achieve your writing goals?
Improved clarity and focus?
Beth's coaching practice involves a holistic process that focuses on your creative goals and process.
Be it through email correspondence, on the phone or face-to-face, Beth acts as a guide to help you uncover your hidden diamond within. Sometimes that requires
her to ask difficult questions and have you think about them in an entirely new way, or think about them for the first time. Sometimes she points out
a different way of framing the situation to lead you to try on a different perspective. She helps you get to where you want to go, though often, suprisingly,
the destination is different and better than ever imagined.
, she first asks a lot of questions to find out what the client wants to do, why, and what has been in the way of her goal in the past. Then in co-creation with her client, they come up with strategies to accomplish her goals. With the coaching hat on, she listens closely to her needs, her difficulties, and her motivations, and often ask more questions than she answers. That's because the client will know what will work better for her success than Beth does. What Beth does is provide a safe and focused space for her client to find those answers. The coaching relationship is a catalyst for change and progress. Additionally, Beth offers scaffolding to help her client to her next steps by suggesting specific tools and techniques for the craft of writing and for the writer's mindset. Beth also assists with creative ideas for scheduling and for ways to help her client be accountable to herself.
With the hat on, Beth offers expert advice and industry information about the publishing world, such as how to find agents and editors, and how to submit to them. She subscribe to an online database, Publishers Marketplace, and will share market research with her client, as it relates to her project.
Logistics:
Contact
Beth to sign up for individual coaching sessions. She usually works
with clients for an initial three-month committment. The best way to know if creativity coaching is right for you is to contact
Beth for a 30-minute consultation.
If
you prefer the group approach, attend any of Beth's classes. For the next class, check here for
the details.
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From a recent client:
"My husband and I really enjoyed Beth Barany's workshop Call to Adventure: An Inner Journey for Fearless Creatives. We are both artists and found the twelve stages of the Hero's Journey to be most effective in launching us to the next level of our creative ability and inner knowing. Beth's articulate presentation is streamlined with exceptional intelligence that challenges your best. Her enthusiasm is infectious and inspires unlimited possibilities with an atmosphere of trust and meaningful fun. We highly recommend it to anyone wanting to explore outside of their own box!"
M. L. Honeyman, Point Roberts, WA
Oakland, CA
Beth offers her Call to Adventure workshop to writers, too.
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Creativity is our birthright and serves to bring us joy and helps us to heal from pain. Manifesting our creativity takes courage and patience. Courage to face the unknown that lies within and to manifest that in the here and now; and, patience to allow our art to unfold and to mature. Kindness to oneself, and joy in the process are also necessary to the act of creativity.
These same qualities apply to the coaching and teaching process. I am here to listen, guide, ask gentle, probing questions and cheer. The synergy and support gained from working with a coach or guide or group is an immeasurable blessing. We do not need to be alone in our creative journeys. May you find strength and guidance through community.
Contact Beth to schedule your 30-minute consultation today.
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or want to write novels, a memoir, or a nonfiction book?
to deepen your commitment to writing, to your writing self, to the story you want to tell?
to be a warrior for yourself, act on your creativity, and announce to yourself and others that you are creative?
to strengthen your courage and take the next step on your book?
to work with a coach who acts as an accountability partner and guide, and is a writer herself?
If you answered to all of the above, then I invite you to call or email me for a complimentary 45-minute phone conversation.
I love working with those who are about writing their book, and look forward to talking to you. Thank you!
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“Beth has a way of evoking motivation and inspiration out of me, by just being, listening and encouraging in a subtle way which is perfect for me. I think she understands what I need as a writer. I find myself working harder and accomplishing much more in such a short amount of time, my story is pushing right out of me. She is one of my allies.” -- Karen Lodrick, San Francisco, CA
"Beth Barany is saving my life. Today in only half an hour she offered resources I need, helped explain the e-book process ... saving me time and money, created an opportunity for cross promotion, AND got me more intimately linked with the eWomen Network. Wow! Thanks, Beth. You're awesome!”
-- Dr. Linda Berry, www.DrLindaBerry.com
"Beth is a knowledgeable, creative and sensitive writer and instructor. This has been my first foray into writing a book, and I found myself inspired, encouraged, and challenged in Beth's class."
-- Dan Swain, Oakland, CA, 2dog Architecture
"I feel like I am really making progress with your help. My fear is lessening, my self-esteem is improving, my belief in myself has a strong hold, and I am doing it!!! Art, that is.”
-- Cathy H., in Gambrills, Maryland
“I was at first skeptical about taking Beth’s workshop because I am not fond of interactive or hands
on anything. But what a pleasant surprise! I found that her workshop was innovative, fun, and inspiring. Who would have thought tarot
and fairy tales could help unlock the secrets of writing?”
-- Susan Egan, New York City
> To setup a 30-minute phone interview with Beth to see how she can help you become the writer you've always
dreamed to be, contact her
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Develop a Plan
of Action for Your Writing
Uncover Dreams,
Goals and Motivations
Bring Balance
to Your Daily Life between Play and Work
Discipline
and Structure for Your Writing
Play: Feed
Your Creative Muse
Develop More
Awareness and Clarity: What is Your Creative Process?
"Getting your novel published will take the same sort of creative problem solving, the same determination and persistence, and the same refusal to quit that you brought to writing the book. Just as you learned and are learning to write with skill and power, you must learn how to market your work effectively."
-- Blythe Camenson & Marshall Cook, Give 'Em What They Want: The Right Way to Pitch Your Novel to Editors and Agents
"Your Get Published workshop was full of useful hands-on exercises. I especially liked the cookies! The intimate group setting and friendly atmosphere was nice, and I also liked your good balance of time, with some lecturing and students sharing their stories."
-- Dan Calvisi, Story Analyst/Writer, Act Four Screenplays
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