Coaching practices for The Artist S Way with My Team
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I hoard everything until it’s finished and perfect, so I work in total isolation and only ever show the polished result
- My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project
- My team is genuinely running well without me now, but I keep inserting myself into decisions they could make
- On my own I only know so much about each piece of this, and when the team brainstorms together the loudest first idea anchors everyone
- I keep dragging the big-picture dreamers into the tedious finishing work and asking my finishers to brainstorm wild ideas, and everyone’s miserable and the handoffs are a mess
Practices that may help
- The Artist’s Way, Made Practical
Julia Cameron’s method treats creative block as something you clear with daily practice rather than wait out: free-writing three pages every morning, taking a weekly solo "artist date," and recovering a sense of play. The tools are practitioner methods refined over decades of teaching — largely anecdotal, though morning pages overlap with expressive-writing research that does have real support. - Share the process, not just the result
Show the work in progress to attract collaborators, feedback, and serendipity.
Steal Like an Artist, in Practice - Map your team’s genius coverage
Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Performing: step back and protect the conditions
A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Run a structured team morphological session
The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
Morphological Analysis, Made Practical - Assign project phases to genius-matched people
Route early ideation to Wonder/Invention geniuses and execution phases to Tenacity geniuses.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Schedule and protect the date like a professional appointment
The artist date is skipped whenever it is optional — scheduling it as a fixed commitment is what makes it happen.
The Artist Date, Made Practical - Work the affirmations and blurts
Surface the negative beliefs about your creativity ("blurts"), then counter them deliberately.
The Artist’s Way, Made Practical - Use the Johari Window in team settings
Apply the window at the team level to improve shared understanding and reduce inter-member blind spots.
The Johari Window - Adjourning: close the team with intention
How a team ends shapes how each member begins the next one.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
Related concerns
- Collective Results Team
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
Align around collective results, not individual status
- Nature And Movement With My Team
What the team has figured out informally needs to become explicit so it survives personnel changes.
Norming: codify agreements in writing
- Pendulation With My Team
Pendulation is a Somatic Experiencing term for the deliberate oscillation between a difficult or activated body sensation and a neutral or comfortable resource — a place in the body that feels okay right now. Moving back and forth between the two, rather than staying fixed in the difficult sensation, trains the nervous system to tolerate distress in small doses and recover, gradually widening the window of tolerance. The approach is established clinical practice in SE; large RCT evidence specific to pendulation is limited.
- The Artist S Way On A Budget
Julia Cameron’s method treats creative block as something you clear with daily practice rather than wait out: free-writing three pages every morning, taking a weekly solo "artist date," and recovering a sense of play. The tools are practitioner methods refined over decades of teaching — largely anecdotal, though morning pages overlap with expressive-writing research that does have real support.
- The Artist S Way When Overwhelmed
Julia Cameron’s method treats creative block as something you clear with daily practice rather than wait out: free-writing three pages every morning, taking a weekly solo "artist date," and recovering a sense of play. The tools are practitioner methods refined over decades of teaching — largely anecdotal, though morning pages overlap with expressive-writing research that does have real support.
- Adjourning Stage Team
How a team ends shapes how each member begins the next one.
Adjourning: close the team with intention
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