FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Pricing depends on breadth and scope of the project. Initial consultations to discuss your project and get to know if we are the right fit are $25.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
What kind of work do you to help clients find their most creative selves? I help clients to find their most creative selves through active listening and engaging activities that guide them to a vision of their current strengths, show them how to deepen and expand those skills, and help provide strategies for further growth. The activities themselves are custom-tailored to your writing goals, based on my decades experience studying the creative and learning process. Book It! Your Publishing Roadmap to More Sales, More Speaking Engagements and More Credibility Tired of hearing that you "need that book" but not even sure where to start to get writing it off your to-do list, and bookings on the calendar? Be the one who "wrote the book on it" at this writing retreat for expert entrepreneurs.one-on-ones Active listening is an important part of the work we do together. I will ask you questions about yourself, your project, your goals. Your responses help to inform how we can best work together. What are the steps in the process? What does working with you look like? I will help you to determine your visions and goalseither for a specific project or to help you move into a more creative space. Well talk about what you do well already as we work through some creativity-enhancing activities and Individualized Inspiration Sessions. As you work through the goals youve set, I will offer regular feedback, focusing on your strengths and progress, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and reshape your goals. How is one-on-one creativity coaching different from attending an Inspiration Session? Inspiration Sessions take place in a group setting. This is an intentional arrangement to optimize what Keith Sawyer calls Group Genius, or the notion that efficient collaboration on an idea causes that idea to improve or evolve. Group work is one way to help draw out your creativity, and get you out of writers block. Coaching is a one to one relationship where, like in an Inspiration Session, I help you to see the strengths you already have and to find ways to develop those more deeply. However, in the one to one session, you have my full undivided attention. We focus on you, your goals, and the tools to draw out your most creative self.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
A magna cum laude graduate of Middlebury Colleges English Department & Creative Writing program, Parent studied writing under Julia Alvarez and Jay Parini. Shes been writing stories since she could hold a crayon. (Seriously. Check it out.) Her first poem was published when she was 10 years old, and she was selected to read it aloud at a ceremony in the state house of her home state of New Hampshire. Suffice it to say that from a young age, writing had her hooked. She writes for many local, national, and international publications, has written and produced sketches for a Telly-Award winning television show, and has co-written a novel which came out in December 2014. She currently teaches several writing classes in Vermont and across the country. She is the editor of Chair & Pen: Musings on Writing and the Writing Life, and Professor of English at Norwich University. She is a Gateless and Vermont-State Certified Writing teacher, and a 2015 Vermont Teacher of the Year nominee. She is a firm believer in the Oxford Comma, but will defer to the AP style guidelines when necessary.