Coaching the Creative Impulse: Psychological Dynamics and Professional Creativity

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Thea Mikkelsen

Coaching the Creative Impulse

Psychological Dynamics and Professional Creativity

Thea Mikkelsen

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Routledge
20 February 2020

Counselling & advice services; Occupational & industrial psychology; Personnel & human resources management; Organisational theory & behaviour

In Coaching the Creative Impulse, Thea Mikkelsen presents an accessible and engaging guide to understanding and utilizing creativity at work. This unique book will give professionals and creative individuals a set of tools to help tackle and understand more deeply the psychological obstacles that may arise when navigating their career path, allowing them to thrive in their roles and master their craft.

Based both in practice and in theory, Mikkelsen’s innovative approach is framed around Freud’s structural model of the superego, ego and id and Mikkelsen's decade worth of experience as a coach and leadership developer. She begins by clearly defining creativity and goes on to identify the psychological processes involved, considering the contribution of language, professional relationships, motivation and working as a group. Using case studies throughout, Mikkelsen also assesses the causes of creative blocks, the value of external feedback and the challenge of balancing experiences of success and failure. Featuring rewritings of real examples from her own work with professional creatives, this book provides a framework for managing inner conflicts and discovering a creative destiny.

This state-of-the-art guide will be essential reading for all people who want to use their creativity and their personality in their work, and those who coach, lead and manage them. It will be of great interest to anyone working in a creative, technological or innovation-led industry, to HR and L&D professionals and to coaches of all backgrounds.

By: Thea Mikkelsen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9780367235550
ISBN 10: 0367235552
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 20 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Chapter 1: What we talk about when we talk about creativity; Chapter 2: Creativity and the self; Chapter 3: The creative process; Chapter 4: Presenting creative work; Chapter 5: Creative groups; Chapter 6: Creativity and relationships; Chapter 7: Creative blocks; Chapter 8: Still the same, only more; Conclusion; Index

Thea Mikkelsen, MSc, MA, is an international executive coach and freelance leadership program developer in the creative industries. Working out of Copenhagen and Milan, she has more than a decade of experience. She is also a non-executive board and advisory board member, a candidate in the Danish Psychoanalytical Association, a keynote speaker on the topics of creative leadership, innovation and professional creativity and a writer. She is based in Milan, Italy, with her husband and two daughters.