Susan has an extensive knowledge of creativity, mental health, and leadership. Her delivery of inspirational storytelling mixed with data means that she is a natural choice to speak at professional events and conferences, as well as reminding people of their innate creativity.
Abracadabra: Create What You Speak
When people hear creativity, they often think it is something just for artists or writers but creativity is much more. Everyone has creativity within them. You can develop great habits that will increase your abiity to access your personal creative strengths. Developing creativity enhances your career, your business, your art and your personal life.
Thrive in Failure
Failure happens. It happens to everyone. What makes the difference between success and defining yourself as a failure is how you embrace the opportunity to grow and learn.
How do you embrace the opportunity? How do you reframe failure into success in order to achieve your goals?
How Play Leads to Success
We have been taught that once we become adults and enter the world of work and business that play maust be seperate from our work. However, engaging in play during work and with co-workers, is an excellent way to build relationships, teamwork, provide creativity, and improve morale.
Think of the way you lose hours doing something you enjoy. Think about how invigorated and energized you feel when you have given yourself a break. Our brains need the break in order to work at their best.
Owning Your Fear
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather action in the face of fear.
Fear of success. Fear of failure. Fear. It can keep us from accomplishing our goals or following our dreams.
How do we do that? We have to own our fear. We have to acknowledge it. Acknowledging helps take away some of it’s power over us.
Beyond Stuck
Whether it is a book we are writing, a project at work, a phase of our business or a rut in our personal life, it is possible to expereince stuckness. This is a place of shrugging our shoulders in a “what’s next?” or putting your head in your hands and sighing because you don’t know what to do next.
There are things that you can do to move through stuckness. There are habits and tricks that engage your creative thinking to find a new way to look at the issue in front of you.
Perfectionism and Procrastination
It is an easy trap to fall into…the belief that everything has to be perfectly done every time.
But how often do we find ourselves working toward perfection as way to procrastinate on a project? Is the drive for being perfect, rooted in a fear of failure that then feeds the desire to procrastinate? Sometimes we can’t even see it.
Then we move in a flurry to get it finished by the deadline or maybe we don’t finish at all…we leave the book in the drawer, the painting unfinished, the business plan incomplete…
Learn how to find your perfectionism cues and then use the creative tricks and tips to successfully complete your projects.
Contact Information
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If you would like Susan do a presentation, key note or workshop, please use the contact form below or email directly to: susan@thecreatingroom.com
Professional Skills & Experience
Susan Sontra is a creative inspirational speaker with over 20 years experience in teaching and presenting.
- Writer.
- Meeting and workshop planner and facilitator.
- Creative Coach: to achieve personal and professional goals.
- Leadership.
SKILLS
- Writing/Storytelling
- Creative
- Meeting facilitation
- Leadership/Management
- Workshop planning/Presenting
- Training
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Speaking/Presenting
- Interviewing/Panel Moderator & Participant
- Online & Hybrid presenting