You

Imagine having the support of someone who champions your successes as much as you do, someone who will ask great questions to encourage you to tap into your own well of resources, to find the solutions you didn't know you had; someone who will challenge you to expand your horizons and see things from different perspectives and viewpoints...

What you can expect...

  • My coaching and mentoring sessions are 60-minutes.
  • I recommend a session every 3 – 4 weeks. 
  • Most of my 1:1 work takes place online, and the group coaching workshops take place online and in person. 
  • I recommend 6 – 9 1:1 coaching sessions and 3 mentoring sessions to create transformative change and an actionable plan. 
  • Group workshops run over a month, and the correspondence programme is a slower longer process which ideally percolates over 6 – 9 months.
  • I email a summary of each conversation after each session to stimulate reflection and support the deep transformative work which usually happens between sessions.
  • I work confidentially, following a strict code of ethics to ensure you receive an excellent service and achieve powerful and positive results.

You are...

A professional artist or creative and you want to transform your creative career.


You have a hunch, or know from experience, that you can benefit from the powerful and impactful craft of coaching, or a combination of coaching, mentoring and critical review. 


You are in a period of reflection, transition, change or stuckness in your thinking, making, or living. 


You are feeling exhausted, unmotivated or experiencing burn-out.


You have forgotten how to play and enjoy your practice.


You are in an ‘everything is just about to come together’ phase.


You are riding a wave of success and momentum. 


You want to find a person that will truly listen to you, give you uninterrupted time, simultaneously hold the big picture and the small details, who won’t forget anything you have said, and who will see everything from your perspective. 


You want to work with someone who will support you to navigate your transitions, unpick your stuckness, or help you better ride the ‘good-time waves’ with greater ease and clarity.


You are looking for a thinking and accountability partner, who will meet you wherever you are—in confusion or clarity—and mirror back what you bring to them.

 

You want to collaborate with someone to find an authentic, ambitious, and sustainable way forward or to help you maintain what you have worked so hard to achieve.


You want to invite someone into your creative process to affirm the importance of your work, your identity as a creative, and your growth. 


You want someone to witness you experience freedom, confidence, and abundant creativity

Through my coaching, mentoring and correspondence programmes you will be supported in:

Seeking, finding, and maintaining creative freedom, allowing for a more expansive and limitless creative life.


Identifying and countering self-imposed limitations, like playing small thinking, imposter syndrome, and martyr thinking, all of which stifle creativity and limit opportunities.


Defining clear goals, creating actionable plans, and developing a map to navigate your creative practice and career.


Guidance in balancing intuitive, playful creativity with critical reflection, research, and evaluation to foster both freedom and depth in your work.


Support in stepping back to assess where your creative process is leading, ensuring you’re moving with purpose and clarity towards your goals.


Help in creating more sustainable creative practices, making your work process and career more manageable and fulfilling over the long term.


Assistance in shifting unhelpful mindsets and overcoming limiting beliefs that block growth and creativity.


Support in aligning disconnected aspects of your practice and self to create a more cohesive, authentic creative identity.


Guidance in recovering from disappointments, navigating post-success phases, and finding the strength to move forward creatively.


Encouragement to explore new approaches, experiment, and innovate in your thinking and making, pushing beyond old boundaries.


Building confidence in your creative decisions, processes, and direction, empowering you to take risks and embrace new opportunities.

What my clients have said..

"I had four remarkable sessions with Miranda, which I'm hugely grateful for. While each session was intriguingly unique, the unifying thread was the way she coached me into unleashing powerful and empowering images, references, and storylines in my life. Miranda frames the work together as collaborative and I totally agree. She was able to lead me to places I hadn't previously explored, even though I've been lucky enough to work with other creative coaches. She asked precise and insightful questions, guiding me into new territory, holding space for me to explore these themes, and supporting me in the pursuit of my creative visions. Her gentle, encouraging tone belies her targeted and strategic approach - shining light into darkened corners which had been sneakily evading my attention. My relationship with my art practice feels reinvigorated and renewed. As a result, I'm now in preparation for my next installation and performance. Thank you Miranda!"
Leonora OppenheimArtist, Lecturer and Movement Practitioner
"Miranda brings to her coaching practice all her skill and experience as an artist and university lecturer. She is an attentive and perceptive listener. There was real subtlety in the way she structured our sessions, which opened a pathway through my muddle of not knowing quite where my work was going - or indeed, how to get going after a hiatus in my practice. It was a rich and rewarding experience. She is, at the same time, firm and gentle, challenging and kind. I cannot recommend her as a coach more highly."
Susan ForsterArtist, former psychoanalyst and garden designer
"Miranda is an incredibly effective coach, her approach is perceptive, generous and full of integrity. Miranda insists on the primacy of the artistic process and draws from her extensive knowledge and understanding of the challenges and complexities involved in creative work. Coaching with Miranda has reshaped how I relate to my own practice, people and the creative environments in which I work. And the results are palpable.
Suzanne HoltomArtist and educator
"It can be vulnerable delving into your creative blocks, failures and obstacles to success. But sitting with Miranda, even online, felt like a simple natural process of letting my own artist be revealed, utterly, completely and safely. With Miranda’s artful support, old stories and patterns reveal new realisations and new potential. I came away feeling refreshed and renewed, ready to lay old patterns to rest and to take on new challenges. Miranda is insightful and gentle, holding a context for the present moment, which let me feel safe to explore deeply."
Karen AbadeArtist and lecturer
"In just three initial sessions, Miranda took me through an excellent structured programme of coaching. During these sessions she allowed me to talk through my issues surrounding various elements of my work and practice. By the third session, I had attained greater clarity in future direction and where best to focus my energy. Miranda puts you at ease while simultaneously challenging you as you talk through what is holding you back. It was a pleasure to work with her and I shall be booking onto more sessions in the near future."
Rob WhiteArtist, Designer and Illustrator
"Miranda Whall is an inspiring and gifted Creative Coach. Her sessions reveal a deep understanding of the creative process and the various challenges inherent in an artistic path. Miranda comes to the creative coaching sessions with an open mind and heart. She is a good listener and brings creativity to the process to help disentangle the issues and find new ways forward. These Creative Coaching sessions will lead you to greater clarity, confidence, and courage."
S.NArtist and lecturer
"Miranda is an excellent creative coach and I would highly recommend her services. During my coaching sessions, blockages that I wasn’t aware I had, in ways of thinking about my art practice. became obvious to me. Through encouraging and inquisitive dialogue with Miranda I got a valuable insight into my patterns of thinking and how they have defined and constricted my practice. The coaching sessions gave me the skills to break free of the reductive way of thinking and has helped me to make informed decisions in an objective manner."
L.SArtist
"Miranda held the space in our sessions with so much warmth and genuine care, making me feel completely at ease in her presence. Her approach was curious and playful, while also managing to penetrate deeply to the core of my issues. She has an uncanny intuition about what’s not being said and took the time to help me fully unpack the assumptions that underpinned certain beliefs. She drew out rich visual metaphors to help me see the big picture reality of my situation and helped me connect the dots with the smaller day-to-day details. I left my sessions brimming with possibility and feeling so supported by Miranda’s unwavering encouragement. She is such a gifted coach and I’m excited for anyone who gets to work with her! I give Miranda my highest recommendation!."
Aoibheann GreenanArtist, coach and mentor