about creative mentoring

I support people from all different backgrounds and professions who are looking to connect with their creativity more fulsomely, need help moving through a creative project, or who feel blocked in their creativity.

I offer a range of options: from one-off tailored sessions, to bespoke packages made specifically to address your creative challenges, to sessions designed to address the most common issues. I also help people to navigate within and out of institutions that are causing them harm.

All my mentoring work is underpinned and guided by somatic, relational, queer, deinstitutionalising, decolonising and feminist frameworks and tools. Sessions might include:

  • project planning

  • working with procrastination

  • metabolising grief/anger/shame/fear

  • writing and editing support

  • understanding and tending to burnout

  • mapping and tending to institutional encounters

  • resource building

  • constellating ideas

    Are you interested in working together?

testimonials

  • I have found Ruth’s mentoring process to be intuitive, creative and deeply thoughtful. It is especially refreshing to finally find someone who understands creative development as a personal journey and who does not reach for an off-the-shelf and out-of-date approach that focuses solely on the idea of a professional career.

    Rebecca

  • Ruth is a gentle, skilful creative mentor who allowed me to feel my feelings while we worked together. Ruth's combination of intuitive support, somatic experiencing, and meditation made the process of grief work soft and nourishing.

    Laura

  • There's a presence there in my week now, where I'm solidifying something for myself. It feels wonderful – I'm so glad I'm doing this, and doing it with you.

    Karen