1 - 1 Mentoring + Coaching
Grow Supportive, Sustainable, Compassion-Rooted Creative & Professional Practices
What do 1-to-1 sessions look like?
I am available for one-to-one sessions as a mentor, as a coach or with a blended approach. Both are rooted in active and compassionate listening, but work a little differently:
Mentoring
I come with my knowledge and skills to offer you support and insights into your own practice through sharing from my experience. This is done so with mindfulness and care; I do not tell you how to do things. Through helping you to share and explore your thoughts, ideas and current work/practice by showing my genuine curiosity (I find people’s practices/work/worlds endlessly fascinating!), I help you to reflect on where you are now and take steps to move towards where you would like to be.
Coaching
I do not share from my own experience, but rather support your self-guided learning by asking questions and reflecting back your words and insights in a structured session. The flow of each coaching session is defined by you and the goal you would like to focus on. It is a forward-focused modality that also provides space to reflect on where you find yourself now, address any blocks and challenges you are having and plan positive steps onward. I am a trained and accredited Relational Dynamics Coach.
A blended approach
If you would like to use a blended approach within one-to-one work, this is also possible. We can move between mentoring and coaching approaches within sessions, and also across a series. This will allow you to draw upon my skills and experience as well as me leaning back and holding space for your own self-guided learning, thinking and talking through where you are and what you would like to move towards.
I can support you to:
develop a land and place-based practice
review, refresh and reinvigorate your practice/work
nurture self-care and personal sustainability
trust your intuition and inklings
advocate for your access needs
consider accessibility within the planning and delivery of projects
explore in-person and online ways to share your work and nurture meaningful relationships and collaborations
design and deliver socially engaged workshops and projects
write funding and project applications
integrate creative evaluation into your participatory projects
grow a greater satisfaction within your practice
make time and space to focus on what matters most
set up a small business and begin selling your work
My approach
I work with artists, creative and community-centred folks whose work is rooted in tending a better world into being, for themselves, the collective and the more-than-human. With a strong practice in cyclic and seasonal awareness, I hold space for action focused on upward growth, dying back, rest, and renewal, centring the full range of human experience.
I am right there alongside you, have no silver-bullet magic answers, and believe wholeheartedly in the active power of deep listening, staying curious and trusting our creative inklings.
I recognise what you offer and the active choice you have made to tend connection in a growing global landscape of division, and like a reciprocal roof, I invite you to lean on me in the way you, too, are leaned upon.
As a neurodivergent, queer, perimenopausal person with chronic health challenges, I live the tender practice of nurturing a gentle life and work in and around systems not built for me.
I recognise that people have different capacities and needs, and offer sessions via video calls online, over the phone and, in the near future, in-person.
When booking a series of mentoring or blended approach sessions, I offer interim support via text and voicenote, via Voxer.
Mentoring + Blended Packages
If you feel called to grow your creative and professional life with kindness, authenticity, and support,
I would love to accompany you.
One-off
A 1-hour brain-picking / booster session
£60
Includes pre-session questionnaire, follow-up notes, and session recording.
✺ This option is:
perfect for focusing on a particular project, workshop or application, talk through a challenge or for an energy refresh
3 months
5 x 1-hour live sessions with text/voice note interim support, through a season
£450
Includes interim support via text and voicenotes, to accompany and cheerlead your wins and blocks between live sessions
Plus session recordings and follow-up notes sent after live sessions.
✺ Choose this option:
for a more spacious, seasonal focus on your practice and work. Over three months, we can dive more deeply into your creative world and nurture a shift, change or particular project.
6 months
10 x 1-hour sessions with text/voice note interim support, through two seasons
£900
Includes interim support via text and voicenotes, to accompany and cheerlead your wins and blocks between live sessions
Plus session recordings and follow-up notes sent after live sessions.
✺ In this time:
we will move through the seasons and focus on a variety of smaller and larger aspects of your practice. All led by you, to tend your creative life.
✺ If you would like to tailor-make a package, get in touch. ✺
Book your FREE discovery call
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Book your FREE discovery call ✷
To book your free 30-minute discovery call, to find the best path for you get in touch.
Let’s get to know each other
About me…
I have spent 18 years working as a professional art educator, writer, and artist.
My arts experience spans community arts, small business and project development, grant success, facilitation, writing, and artmaking.
I am passionate about creativity and sense-making as daily drives
My art practices explore botanical ink, land-based movement, ritual and performance, earth pigment printmaking, audio, writing, zines, workshops, community building, installation, and place-based work.
I am late-stage diagnosed neurodivergent (ADHD with suspected AuDHD), empathetic with Endometriosis, PMDD, and perimenopause
I have 10+ years of experience working with seasonal and cycle awareness in my life, practice and work.
Note: I am not a therapist or health professional. My mentoring is grounded in lived experience, shared with care and boundaries. As a trained and accredited Relational Dynamics Coach, I am committed to best practice through regular supervision.
Why Work With Me?
You want a mentor who listens deeply and reflects back your own wisdom
You value a compassionate, emotionally aware approach rooted in real-life experience
You seek support that honours neurodivergence, chronic illness, queerness, and/or seasonal rhythms
You want practical, gentle guidance when you request it, to grow your creative and professional practices sustainably
Why Not Work With Me?
If you believe feelings should be ignored or dismissed
If you think people should just “get on with it” without space for care
If my queerness, neurodivergence, or communication style doesn’t resonate with you
NB: I offer 30-minute Discovery Calls free of charge to see if we are a good fit.
“Karn held the sessions sensitively with bright and inspiring energy. As we progressed through the weeks, they gently encouraged us out of our comfort zones which was both nerve-wracking, healing and empowering. I felt safe, inspired, held, heard and have since felt motivated to continue exploring and developing my writing practice.”
Sam - Write Club course attendee.
“I'm so pleased to work with Karn as my mentor. Their thoughtful questions, suggestions and guidance are a great support for me as I experiment and seek my own path in art making and facilitation.”
Clarissa - MA Arts and Social Practice Student.
Testimonials
Terms + Conditions
To read my Coaching and Mentoring Terms and Conditions please see here.