about
rosa phoenix
*working in Phoenix, Arizona and remotely
👁 connect with your creative spirit
Hello! I’m an art and meditation teacher and creative coach specializing in:
🌟 intuitive art classes, retreats and workshops
🌟 group programs and 1-1 coaching for creatives in art, creative practice, career and business
🌟 workplace and community wellness programs in mindful well-being ~ creative visualization ~ energy healing ~
🌟 certified creativity coach
🌟 certified meditation teacher
🌟 certified reiki master
Since 2011, I've worked with hundreds of creative people of all ages, as an art and meditation teacher, creative coach and career advisor.
I’ve trained in creative coaching with Dr. Eric Maisel, meditation coaching with Sura Flow, and career advising with Dr. Anne Lapour.
Organizations I’ve worked with include: Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University, New School University, the Graphic Artists Guild, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Young Arts, Parallax Art Center and the City of Phoenix.
I have professional experience in education, art, design, media, marketing, artist advocacy, nonprofit, human services, mental health.
If you are interested in working with me, please send me a note on the Contact page.
Thank you!
books
Artists in Crisis
Rethinking the Mental Health Challenges of Creative and Performing Artists
edited by Eric Maisel, Arnoldo Cantú and Susan Raeburn
I am a contributing author to this book of essays examining the intersections of creative life and mental health.
We are facing global mental health challenges and crises with multiple causes. One specific crisis that this volume in the EIP Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series intends to address is the crisis facing creative and performing artists, who display significantly higher rates of distress and difficulty than do members of the general population.
The book addresses the questions: What are the lived experiences of our contemporary creative and performing artists? What are the specific, identifiable challenges of the creative life? To what extent are a creator’s troubles a function of the creative personality (if there is one), the nature of creative work, the rigors of the creative life, or everyday human difficulties—or all four? What sorts of answer have been provided by the helping professions so far? Specifically, how does psychiatry frame and view these matters and what sort of special help, if any, does it provide? What might a better future for the mental health of artists look like?
This groundbreaking book tackles the unhelpful mythology surrounding the creative life (e.g., the myth of the suffering genius) and provides new perspectives and new answers of real value to the tens of millions of individuals who devote their lives to the arts.
Artists in Crisis is the seventh Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.
Inside Creativity Coaching
40 Inspiring Case Studies from Around the World
edited by Eric Maisel
I am a contributing author to this book of creativity coaching case studies.
In Inside Creativity Coaching, 40 creativity coaches from around the world describe their work with creative clients in this first-ever case study examination of the art and practice of creativity coaching.
Curated by one of America’s foremost creativity coaches, these rich narratives examine how creativity coaches work with writers, painters, musicians, craftspeople, and other creatives on issues such as motivation, procrastination, blockage, and performance and career anxiety. Packed with concrete tools and techniques, the book draws on inspirational success stories from across the globe to help coaches better understand and serve their creative clients. It will be a valuable resource to creativity coaches, coaches interested in developing a specialty, and creatives and performing artists looking to overcome their challenges.
Covering a diverse range of disciplines, Inside Creativity Coaching is a must-have book for both aspiring and experienced creativity coaches, and anyone interested in helping creatives.
The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives
50+ Inspiring Exercises from Creativity Coaches Worldwide
Edited by Eric Maisel
I am a contributing author to this workbook of creativity exercises.
In this practical workbook, creativity coaches from around the world share their best exercises to help the reader meet the demands of the creative process, the creative personality, and the creative life.
This book is packed with an extensive list of exercises that have been vetted by coaches working on the frontlines of creativity, and tried, tested, and proven effective with coaching clients. The hands-on activities cover a wide range of common challenges, including creative blocks and resistance, waning and lost motivation, making time for creating, the pain of disappointment, and more. This guide recognizes the connections between mental health and an alive creativity, and includes helpful advice from professionals who actively and regularly work with individual creatives on issues of process, productivity, motivation and career.
Ideal for coaches and therapists, as well as creatives in every discipline, this book is a valuable aid for achieving creative realization.
my story ~
the healing of my creative spirit
When I was a child I was a natural artist, happiest when drawing, painting, looking at art or beautiful scenes in nature.
But when I was a teenager, I became self-critical. I decided that I wasn’t good enough to pursue art, so I abandoned it.
The act of turning away from what I truly loved, led to disconnecting from my creative spirit.
Constantly seeking, never finding fulfillment or a sense of belonging, I drifted through toxic situations and patterns.
Eventually, I became very ill with autoimmune disease, partly from the stress of living a life that wasn’t true to me.
When my father suddenly died, I plummeted into profound grief. For my dad, for my life, and for the world. I lacked any hope or desire to keep going.
But something interesting happened.
One day I picked up some crayons and started scribbling. My drawings were clumsy and crude, but it didn’t matter, because I had re-discovered the pleasure of simply making colorful marks on paper.
I remembered my creative spirit, that I thought was lost.
Healing messages and images of encouragement and love began to appear in my sketchbook. Songs began to emerge from my own voice. These messages, pictures and songs came from me, yet they didn’t seem to come from my conscious mind.
It was as if they came from a divine source.
I began to feel inspired and interested in life again. I arose from my depression, feeling more energized, healthy and confident.
I finally gained the strength to leave the toxic situation that I had felt trapped in, and started my life anew.
I know that my creative awakening saved me.
I took a new name, Rosa Phoenix, for the phoenix who rose from the ashes, to live again.
I began my new life as an artist, teacher and guide . . . and I vowed to always stay creative.
My heart lights my way forward now, as I follow my inspiration, and guide others in their own creative awakenings.
