ZEN HED CONSULTING

Succeeding as a creative is hard; making new art, starting a new business takes time and energy that can be easily wasted by problems and mistakes. Everyone needs someone on their side sometimes, be it motivational, practical or to help solve a specific issue.

Zen Hed Consulting offers a range or services for writers, artists and other creators designed to increase your creative productivity and take care of the potential stresses that drain your energy. These services include:

Zen Hed Consulting is not an agency, I charge an hourly rate rather than a percentage. You engage my services as and when needed. Zen Hed Consulting is also available for groups and organisations.

Note: Zen Hed Consulting does not provide Legal services.

If you think you need a lawyer please get one immediately.

Consultation

Individual:

Creative Career Coaching – work habits, goal setting, motivation, problem solving and defining success.

Please refer to the Workshops for details.

Organisations:

Governance/Management coordination

Strategy and goal setting

Establishing events or grants initiatives

Please refer to the Workshops for more details on what Zen Hed Consulting can provide for your organisation.

Creative projects:

Contract coordination – film specific service: heading into production and have all your cast and crew terms agreed on but haven’t had time to get all the contracts signed and sorted? Zen Hed Consulting can assist.

Mediation

Conflict resolution. Creative differences happen, collaborative projects can go off the rails. Zen Hed Consulting has experience helping writers, producers and other creative industry professionals find resolution and restore working relationships. This can include chain-of-title issues, plans for co-created I.P. and goal setting for shared creative vision.

This service is also available for creative organisations that are experiencing internal conflict.

Advocacy

Sometimes, no matter how experienced you may be, you need someone on your side. Zen Hed Consulting can provide assistance with the following:

Individual:

Contract negotiation

Funding proposals

Debt collection

Organisations:

Project specific lobbying

Stakeholder management and communication

Annual Reports/Funding proposals

Mentorships

The mentorships I offer are about your goals and work habits. I won’t be reading your work but I will be making sure you have done it and kicking your butt if you haven’t. These can be short-term and/or project specific.

Options:

Singularity: one two-hour session. That’s it.

Mini Mentorship: one two-hour session with a one-hour follow-up session six weeks later.

Full Mentorship: six months. Starting with an initial session selected from the Workshops with six follow up sessions of an hour each.

Please refer to the Workshops for details on which type of mentorship you need.

Workshops

INCITING INCIDENT:

Joy and Fury: what do you love doing and want to do forever? What is stopping you and driving you nuts?

This workshop starts with answering these two questions before covering the basics of managing your creative mojo. Joy and Fury are about purpose. The workshop includes goal setting, career planning, motivation and mojo generation.

RELATIVE CALM:

Discipline and Grace: what you do and how you do it.

The goal of this workshop is to equip you with the tools and maps needed to achieve Relative Calm. This workshop includes the basics of the Inciting Incident workshop but covers a greater range of aspects and can be customized for your needs. It includes situation assessment, forward planning and alignment.

REVOLUTION: ONE

All of the above. This is the big one.

Revolution One is the start of something new and big or the total re imagining of your current career/business/life. It uses the application of the principles of Zen Hedonism and the Theory of Relative Calm to establish a core of change and purpose. It is the setting of the foundation values and purpose of your career/business.