Focused Support for Your Creative Practice

Creative Compass names both the creative-practice companioning work I do, and my own role in that work. In short:

• I help people with an independent creative practice discern direction, priority, and intention.
• I focus on executive function, accountability, and process, empowering you to do the creative work you want to do.

This is care work—not corporate life-hacking, not productivity coaching. It costs what you can afford, because this kind of support should be as accessible as possible.

Who Needs a Creative Compass?

I work with writers, musicians, makers and crafters, directors of arts organizations…etc.

Creative Compass is for you if you have a practice of art or creativity that is central to your being in the world—whether professional, amateur, or something else—and you want structured support and companionship for that work.

It’s lonely, trying to be everything for ourselves. Humane, focused companionship and accompaniment can help us discern, evaluate, and understand:

• Motivations
• Priorities
• Workflow
• Communications
• How to stay focused
• How and when to level up

I developed a passion for this work by doing it informally for friends, and in multiple professional roles. I love to listen, I love to think about process, and I’m constantly seeking to match the why with the what and the how. I believe in the deep and subtle power of conversation that is friendly, candid, and curious, as well as boundaried and focused.

There’s a lot of help out there for organizing yourself in the workplace. In the less-defined world of artistic practice, not so much. Creative Compass allows me to bring the tools and questions I have learned, created, and still use professionally and creatively, specifically to support your process and practice.

“Working with Tara for just one session has made a difference in how I’m approaching my creative practice. Her questions were insightful, and her notes afterwards were so useful, I printed them off and posted them as reminders/check-ins for myself. She helped me clarify what I want to do and why. Tara’s support means the world to me and it’s a joy to work with her.”

-Amber, writer & visual artist