Kirsten Ivatts
CREATIVE THINKING PARTNER | POLYMATH
When your usual way of looking
at something isn’t working,
I help you find another way in.
Sometimes you don't need another answer. You need a different question.
You can think about something for so long that you stop seeing it clearly. You ask yourself the same questions, follow the same trains of thought and keep arriving back in the same place.
Perhaps you need someone to ask you the right questions.
You just don’t know what the right questions are yet.
That’s where I come in.
As a Creative Thinking Partner, I bring another mind to whatever you’re trying to understand, untangle, create or change. I listen to what you’re saying, and often to what you’re not saying.
I notice patterns, make connections, question assumptions and look for the angle you haven’t considered.
I don’t work from a formula, because you’re not a formula. What we explore — and how we explore it — depends entirely on you and what you bring.
What Might you bring to a session?
A decision
You keep thinking it through, but somehow you always end up back where you started.
A creative idea
You have notes and ideas but you need that spark o bring it all together.
Work or career
The path you are on no longer feels like you but you need help understanding, where next.
Relationships
Romantic, familial, friendships, work colleagues. A human situation you need to navigate.
A change
You know you need to make one, you might know what it is, but you can’t see how.
Something isn't working
But you don’t know why or what the problem really is, so the solution stays hidden.
You don't need to know what kind of problem it is. Bring me the thing. We'll start there.
I think outside the box.
My own experience crosses writing, creativity, communication, websites and technology, spirituality, symbolism, personal development and the complicated business of being human.
That doesn’t make me an expert in everything. It gives me a lot of different places to look from.
Sometimes we’ll talk. Sometimes I’ll ask an unexpected question. We might use metaphor, imagination, story, mapping or another creative approach entirely. I may spot a connection between two things that seemed unrelated.
I won’t know exactly where we’ll go before we begin.
That’s the point.
Two people with the same problem, don’t need the same solution. They need the one that works for them. And reaching that solution can happen in any number of ways.
Let's Think Together - Creatively
Bring me one question, problem, idea or situation.
For 90 minutes, we’ll give it our full attention and see what becomes visible when another mind enters the conversation.
There is no programme to join and no prescribed process to follow. You may leave with an answer, a different question, a new perspective, something practical to try — or a completely different way into the thing you thought you were trying to solve.
WHAT DOES A SESSION INVOLVE?
Once you have booked a session I send an email to arrange a time for our call. A link will then be sent out for our online meeting (on Google Meet).
Your session is recorded and the link sent after our call. You will also receive a written brief in an email with the basic points of our session.
And when I’m Not Thinking With Other People… I Write.
I’m also an author of fantasy and cozy fantasy fiction, creating stories filled with magic, folklore, complicated humans and worlds that don’t always behave as expected. Writing is another expression of the same curiosity that runs through my work — exploring what happens when we look beneath the obvious story.
My current co-authored book, The Witches of Black Briar Mountain is available to buy on Amazon worldwide as paperback or Kindle. It is also available to read on Kindle Unlimited.
