About Kirsten Ivatts

My story has never been a straight line.

I’ve been many things in my life — writer, artist, designer, intuitive, web designer, photographer, energy worker, mother, grandmother and probably several things I’ve forgotten to put on the list.

For a long time, I thought these were separate parts of me.

Now I realise they’re not.

I’m a polymath. I’m endlessly curious, creatively wired and fascinated by how things connect. Give me an interesting thread and I’ll follow it — through creativity and storytelling, psychology and philosophy, spirituality and symbolism, technology and design, ancient history, human behaviour, or some completely unexpected rabbit hole that appeared along the way.

I’ve spent decades learning, creating, questioning and exploring. I’ve read tarot for 36 years. I’ve trained in energy work, EFT, Colour Therapy, EmoTrance and Meridian Psychotherapy. I’ve studied Druidry, explored Gene Keys, astrology and Human Design, worked intuitively with people, built websites, made art, taken photographs and written books.

Some of those things became professions. Some became qualifications. Some became lifelong fascinations.

All of them became ways of seeing.

And I think that’s the thread that has run through my life all along.

I’m interested in what’s underneath the obvious answer. The pattern nobody has noticed. The question beneath the question. The connection between two things that didn’t appear to belong together until suddenly they did.

It’s there when I write a novel. It’s there when I design a website. It’s there when I read cards. And it’s there when somebody brings me something they’re struggling to understand and we begin looking at it together.

I don’t believe people fit neatly into boxes, and I’ve finally stopped trying to fit myself into one.

Creative thinking

Today, one of the ways I bring all of that together is through my work as a Creative Thinking Partner.

People bring me questions, ideas, decisions, problems and situations they can’t quite see their way through. I don’t arrive with a prescribed method or a formula. I listen. I get curious. I ask questions. I notice patterns and connections. And sometimes I wander sideways into an entirely different territory because that’s where the interesting door happens to be.

I don’t need to be the expert in the thing you bring me.

My expertise is in the looking.

In finding another way in.

And then there are the stories…

I’m also an author.

Stories have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I write fantasy and cosy fantasy, creating worlds filled with folklore, magic, complicated humans and the occasional creature that refuses to behave itself.

Writing might look like another branch of what I do, but to me it comes from exactly the same place: curiosity, imagination, pattern, possibility and the question I’ve spent much of my life asking:

What else might be here that we haven’t seen yet?

You are the creator, creating your creation.