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BOOK COACHING

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WRITING HONORS

  • Honorary fellow in writing at Iowa University, and a scholar of literature at the International Writing Program: August 24–Nov 12, 2013.

  • I was selected by the US Embassy in Kuwait to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), April 2018: Empowering Youth Through the Performing Arts, USA.
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  • I was selected for a position on the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Circle Prize for the Arabic Short Story (Almultaqa), 2015-2016, the Arab world’s first international award for short story collections in Arabic.

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ABOUT

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BOOKS

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AWARDS

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IN THE PRESS

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As a book coach, I provide a practical framework for writers to enjoy the creative process while making substantial headway on their writing projects. ​

BOOK COACHING TRACKS

We can develop a practical framework wherever you are in your writing journey. The aim is to enjoy the writing phase and to fully savor your prose or poetry.
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In a Regular Track, clients receive:

  • Twelve 50-minute audio coaching sessions, one a week.
  • Laser-focused summaries of sessions to help encapsulate the main lessons in each call. These summaries generally identify each session's topic, takeaway, obstacles, commitments, and value.
  • Three 30-minute video calls for quick wins and challenges, one after every 4 sessions. These calls help us celebrate the client's wins and strategize a plan for the following month.
  • Clients are encouraged to contact me between sessions via emails and text messages for quick questions, wins, challenges or ideas to develop further in our upcoming calls. These are meant as supplements for our 50-minute coaching sessions. I will guide clients toward those calls if I feel questions might be better tackled during our sessions.
  • ​And because 10% of everything I make goes to charity, clients can vote on the charity I work with the following year.
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​In an Expedited Track, clients receive:

  • Six 50-min audio coaching sessions, one a week.
  • Laser-focused summaries of sessions to help encapsulate the main lessons in each call. These summaries generally identify each session's topic, takeaway, obstacles, commitments, and value.
  • One 30-minute call for quick wins and challenges, one after four sessions. This call helps us celebrate the client's wins and strategize a plan for the following month.
  • Clients are encouraged to contact me between sessions via emails and text messages for quick questions, wins, challenges or ideas to develop further in our upcoming calls. These are meant as supplements for our 50-minute coaching sessions. I will guide clients toward those calls if I feel questions might be better tackled during our sessions.
  • ​And because 10% of everything I make goes to charity, clients can vote on the charity I work with the following year.
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I CAN COACH YOU THROUGH

  • Tracking expansive and limiting desires
  • Reflecting on your values and staying connected to your deeper WHYs
  • Becoming more strategic as well as resilient by reframing what mistakes and changes mean to you
  • Developing a personalized system to help differentiate between helpful and harmful thoughts
  • Preparing your work space and organizing your notes, resources, and drafts
  • Breaking down book sections into story beats or poems and adding them to a comprehensive ​calendar
  • Creating SMART Goals for your book project (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound)
  • Categorizing your To-Do-Lists (Creative, Physical, Spiritual, Social, etc.) and maintaining life/work balance
  • Practicing mindfulness or developing new systems for self-care that will prioritize your mental and physical health
  • Fostering a support network to help you stay disciplined
  • Attending to life’s challenges while staying focused on your academic goals
  • Tracking your reinforcing moments and celebrating your wins


Each session follows the client's own agenda.
And packages are renewable for clients who need more time with me.
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‘Dreams Are Like Poems’: The Radical Healing Potential of Poetry
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EDITORIAL PACKAGE (OPTIONAL)
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​For clients seeking a hybrid model that combines coaching with editing and comments on writing samples: i.e., style, tone, level of comprehension, clarity, etc., we can discuss student needs during the Discover Call.

FEE

  • If you seek an editorial package on top of your coaching one, we will customize a plan together before starting.
  • A Regular Coaching Track costs: 720 KD (60 KD per session).
  • An Expedited Coaching Track costs: 390KD (65 KD per session).
  • Invoices must be paid in full before our first call.
  • If you decide on a monthly retainer arrangement, please process the payment on the 1st of each month.
  • Pre-paid session work never expires. If you choose to pause session work before we’ve completed the number of sessions you’ve paid for, you can use them later.
  • I accept payments through PayPal, bank transfer, and Upayment.
  • Please budget for this investment and make sure funds are available on time. I do not accept late payments.

The aim of a coaching relationship is a dynamic forward, moving energy as client and coach focus positively on the client’s visions and goals.

WHAT IS COACHING

Liberation from Limited Thinking

Coaching helps people improve their lives, not in the sense of “perfectionism,” but rather in the sense of becoming more familiar with their core values: the set of principles that bring authentic fulfillment to their lives, which makes them kinder parents, more attentive partners, more dedicated writers or painters or musicians or YouTubers, and so on.

These values help us tap into the will to stand up for ourselves, our beliefs, our loved ones, and our community.

It must also be stated that coaching isn’t positive affirmation or putting on a fake smile and never experiencing the shadow self or negative emotions and troubling thoughts.

Instead, coaching is a process of cognitive restructuring accompanied by real changes over several months.

It provides the framework to encourage and support people to get out of their own heads and to begin gradually building the life they aspire to live by transforming into the people they long to become.

At the end of the day, a successful coaching relationship is an empowering one.
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Clients should complete a package feeling that they have accomplished goals, transformed some of their limiting beliefs, and relished in more fulfillment and blessings along the way.

How do Coaches Achieve Their Aims?
  • Listening deeply
  • Asking powerful questions
  • Setting up strong support systems

What is Gained from Meaningful Questions?
By asking meaningful questions, coaches:
  • Focus the client on possibilities
  • Move a client beyond their automatic responses and into their creative process
  • Help clients unearth and express their authentic desires
  • Allow the client to hear their own answers out loud, which is a process that facilitates growth​

What Do You Get From Working With a Coach?
​As a support system, coaching provides the client with:
  • An accountability partner
  • Safe opportunities for meaningful dialogue
  • New perspectives and expanded options
  • Inspiration and motivation
  • Potential solutions
  • Next steps and strategies for a balanced future


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​I use honed coaching skills to help students, writers, and other artists take deliberate steps toward achieving their creative dreams.

​Schedule a FREE Discovery Call to discuss your project and timeline. ​
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  • About
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