about creative mentoring

I offer embodied creative mentoring and writing support to female and LGBTQ+ artists, academics, and ex-academics who are trying to articulate themselves and their work both within and outside of institutional logics.

All my mentoring work is underpinned and guided by somatic, relational, queer, deinstitutionalising, decolonising and feminist frameworks and tools. Sessions might include:

  • project planning

  • working with procrastination

  • metabolising grief/anger/shame/fear

  • writing and editing support

  • understanding and tending to burnout

  • mapping and tending to institutional/professional experiences

  • resource building

  • constellating ideas

    Are you interested in working together?

testimonials

  • I have found Ruth’s mentoring process to be intuitive, creative and deeply thoughtful. It is especially refreshing to finally find someone who understands creative development as a personal journey and who does not reach for an off-the-shelf and out-of-date approach that focuses solely on the idea of a professional career.

    Rebecca

  • Ruth is a gentle, skilful creative mentor who allowed me to feel my feelings while we worked together. Ruth's combination of intuitive support, somatic experiencing, and meditation made the process of grief work soft and nourishing.

    Laura

  • There's a presence there in my week now, where I'm solidifying something for myself. It feels wonderful – I'm so glad I'm doing this, and doing it with you.

    Karen