Coaching for people holding creative, values-led work in education, arts and community spaces
I offer coaching for people working in education, the arts, and community spaces who are holding complex, values-led roles. As an educator, creative practitioner, and founder of a community-focused arts organisation, I understand the pressures of working in environments that demand care, adaptability, and purpose, and I understand that those pressures are rarely just personal.
The exhaustion, the competing demands, the difficulty of staying connected to purpose: these don't only live in our heads. They live in our bodies, in the relationships around us, and in the systems we work within. Many of those systems were not designed with us, or our communities, fully in mind. Coaching that ignores this risks placing the burden of structural problems onto individual shoulders. My practice tries to hold both: the personal and the political, the internal and the structural.
I work from a relational, systemic, and anti-racist foundation. This means attending to power, in the systems my clients move through, and in the coaching room itself. It means recognising that change tends to be small, emergent, and relational: not a solution imposed from outside, but something that surfaces when the right conditions are created.
Who This is For
This coaching is for people holding creative, values-driven work within complex systems and feeling the tension between purpose and depletion.
- Leaders in arts charities and cultural organisations navigating funding shifts, team dynamics, or questions of direction
- Teachers and educators leading creative work, pastoral care, or innovation under sustained pressure
- Founders and directors of small community organisations balancing vision, delivery, and personal sustainability
If you recognise yourself in that picture, this is a space designed for you.
How I Work
I work relationally, meaning the coaching relationship itself is part of the practice, not just a container for it.
I pay attention to what's held in the body as well as the mind. Our nervous systems carry history: our own experiences, and often those of the communities and cultures we belong to. Creating space to settle, sense, and listen, to ourselves and to what's happening around us, is where real reflection begins.
I'm interested in patterns as much as problems: what's trying to emerge, not just what needs fixing. Drawing on complexity thinking and emergent approaches, I believe that small, grounded shifts in how we relate, lead, and care for ourselves can ripple outward in ways we can't always predict or plan. The work is often quieter and more textured than it first appears.
I bring an anti-racist and structurally aware lens to all of this, not as an add-on, but as something woven into how I listen, what questions I ask, and how I understand the contexts my clients are navigating.
Sessions are trauma-informed and may include reflective or creative exercises where these feel useful, but always follow your pace and needs.
What Coaching Looks Like
I'm committed to making this work accessible. You're invited to choose a rate based on your organisational turnover or personal circumstances:
- Reset Session (60 mins): A one-off session to bring clarity to a current challenge
- Block of 3 sessions: Focused support to shift patterns and develop practical strategies
- Block of 6 sessions (60 mins each): Deeper work on leadership presence, wellbeing, and long-term direction
Pricing per session:
- £100k turnover or less / low income: £60
- Standard rate: £90
- Support tier (larger organisations): £120
Sessions are available online (Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet) or in person.
A grounded space for reflection and renewal, held within an honest view of the world you're working in.
Client Stories
"Ollie's warm and open approach was invaluable in helping me work through my priorities regarding ways to move forward in my career. His approach empowered me to find value in my work, to allow this value to lift my expectations for the future, and to help me formulate concrete plans.” - Sound artist and educator, Kent
"Ollie helped me formulate and articulate some thoughts and feelings that had been ruminating for a while. His empathetic and respectful listening skills allowed me to feel heard and empowered me to lead my own way through.”- Play Therapist, Kent
Next Steps
Book a free 30-minute chemistry call to see if we're a fit. No pressure, just a conversation about where you're at and what's possible.
Or email me at info@mycocreative.co
Spaces are limited, let's find a time that works.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who is this coaching for? This coaching is for people holding creative, values-led roles in education, the arts, and community settings, leaders, educators, artists, and founders navigating complexity, change, or depletion while trying to stay connected to purpose and care.
2. What makes your coaching approach different? The coaching is grounded in an understanding that the challenges people face in this work are often structural as much as personal, shaped by systems, inequity, and the emotional weight of caring professions. Rather than prescriptive solutions, sessions support sense-making, values clarification, and sustainable leadership through relational and reflective dialogue. I bring a structural and anti-racist awareness to that process throughout.
3. What do you mean by anti-racist and structurally aware coaching? It means I don't treat the difficulties you're facing as purely individual problems. Many of the pressures experienced by people in arts, education, and community work are rooted in systemic inequity, underfunding, racial and social inequality, power imbalances in organisations and sectors. An anti-racist lens means I stay curious about those structures, not just the individual in front of me. It also means attending to dynamics of power and identity within the coaching relationship itself.
4. What do you mean by trauma-informed coaching? It means creating sessions that are grounded, paced, and attentive to what's happening in the body, not just the narrative. People in caring, creative, and community-facing roles often carry a great deal: vicarious stress, the weight of institutional or cultural histories, their own experiences of exclusion or exhaustion. A trauma-informed approach creates space to work with all of that without pushing through it.
5. How do the sessions work practically? Sessions last 60 minutes and are available online or in person. You can choose a one-off reset session or a block of sessions for deeper support. Creative or reflective exercises may be offered where useful, but always in response to what you need.
6. Do you offer flexible pricing? Yes. Pricing is offered on a sliding scale based on organisational turnover or personal circumstances, because access to reflective support shouldn't only be available to well-resourced organisations or individuals.m