Launching: The Musician Coach
A positive psychology approach to living a musical life.
The Musician Coach is a professional coaching community on Substack for supporting anyone seeking to approach their relationship with making music through personal meaning and purpose.
How It Works
I have designed this Substack site to provide coaching activities for people in all stages of musical development, on any voice/instrument, and in any musical genre. This is an opportunity to pursue one’s musical interests through an introductory experience of professional coaching in an online community setting. Weekly posts are designed to help you find your own path and give you little nudges to take a few steps each week. Topics are general to music learning, creating, performing, and performance design, and are accessible by musicians at all levels, because being musical is so much more than what level you are at.
Every week a free article will post in an area of music learning, performing, creating, or design which will include a self-reflection activity and call to action to move you forward.
Growth comes from action(s), and forward momentum is motivated by new insight or knowledge. Journaling your actions and experiences motivated by reading posts that are meaningful to you will both 1) help you to hold yourself accountable to action, and 2) document your growth. Starting your own discussion group for reporting action and progress is an additional option to provide deeper engagement.
Paid subscribers will have additional access that includes being part of a supportive and interactive community for building relationships and sharing successes. Additional paid benefits include:
Subscriber only posts and full archive
Specific and detailed coaching activities with engagement in a community
Interviews with musicians on finding and following their own path
Access to recorded guided meditations and other positive psychology based activities to support practice and performance
Engagement with authors and guests through live chats and email