Course Description

Is it always on your mind to give up the day job and follow your passion?

Or are you on the flipside of that coin, often told to loosen up and think outside the box?

In this course, you'll uncover the third way. The whole way.

For anyone wondering how to blend together a creative career with all the practicalities of everyday life, or how to enhance their practical nature with more creativity, this course helps you navigate the paths and balance the approach.

With creatively practical insights from Jill Marshall, best-selling fiction author, creative coach and professional trainer in both corporate and creative worlds, you'll look at:

- Understanding your innate perspectives on the creative and the practical;

- Identifying and clearing out the obstacles that keep you stuck;

- Simple tools to honour the whole of who you are;

- Insights into balancing your life to feel creatively free and bouyantly stable.


Author and coach

Jill Marshall

Jill Marshall is the author of fifteen books (fiction) published by major trade publishers, including the best-selling Jane Blonde series for girls. She is also an indie publisher of many other books with practical skills across many publishing pathways, and she's edited over 1000 books for personal clients and on behalf of publishing organisations. Jill is also a professional trainer and coach, with a people development career spanning pver 25 years. With high-level roles in Human Resources and Learning & Development in multinational blue chip organisations as well as extensive coaching and training in creative writing, Jill is equally at home in an executive briefing or a one-to-one with a would-be creative. Jill read History at Cambridge for her first degree, and has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Winchester. She has lived and travelled all around the world, working with clients on a global basis and with books published in eleven languages and twenty two countries, and is herself a proud Practical Creative.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    The Practical Creative Part 1 - Creative VERSUS Practical

    • The Practical Creative Part 1 Audio Presentation

    • THE PRACTICAL CREATIVE part 1 notes/worksheet
  • 3

    The Practical Creative Part 2 - Identifying blocks and patterns

    • The Practical Creative Part 2 audio presentation

    • The Practical Creative Part 2 - notes/worksheet
  • 4

    The Practical Creative Part 3 - Your box of tricks

    • The Practical Creative Part 3 audio presentation

    • The Practical Creative Part 3 notes/worksheet
  • 5

    The Practical Creative Part 4 - Creatively Practical and Practical Creative

    • The Practical Creative Part 4 audio presentation

    • THE PRACTICAL CREATIVE PART 4 notes/worksheet