The power of KMCC (Kaizen-Muse Creative Coaching) comes from its refreshingly non-linear approach, one that provides the container of encouragement required by those wanting to be more creative. Small steps and the replacement of resistance with child-like eagerness move individuals past procrastination, overwhelm, self-sabotage, fear, and into the experience of creativity as an exalted routine. 

The transcending ability of KMCC to embrace both the science and art of human creativity lies at the heart of its uniqueness. This partnership – Kaizen, rooted 2,000 year old wisdom that employs a one-small-step-at-a-time tactical approach to resolving the neurological and psychological realities of the mind with Muse ‘Technology’, a playful but practical way of unclogging creative and mental pores and awakening slumbering talents - is the brainchild of creativity experts Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. (Author of: The Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets. Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence) and Dr. Robert Maurer of UCLA (Author of: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way.)  

“Kaizen Way” small steps, steps much smaller than formerly considered small including 30 second periods of time, are used to reshape habits, thinking, and action over a realistic period of time. Much of this design is based on scientific studies that resulted in understanding how the mind can be trained to make long lasting changes in the way we use our thinking-namely incorporating our creative passions into our schedules despite fears, self-sabotage, overwhelm, perfectionism, negative self-talk and low self confidence, perceived lack of time, difficulty focusing and well established habits that do not serve us.

Ten Powerful Pieces of Kaizen-Muse Philosophy 

1. KMCC uses empowering questions, intuitive reflections and the prescription of well-tested tools that honor the creative process and the idiosyncrasies, uniqueness, resistance and sensitivities experienced by creative individuals or any individual embarking upon the creative process.
2. Past successes, current strengths, and an on-going focus on what works, strengthen the confidence and self-esteem vital to the creative process.
3. The use of guided imageries designed according to Kaizen-Muse principles is instrumental in eliciting and cultivating imagination, intuition, passionate motivation and inner wisdom. Guided imageries and other in session creative exercises make the creativity coaching session more than a check-in – transformations happen in the moment the client is being coached.
4. State of the art approaches that reshape the way the mind works in order to establish lasting changes make creative living, thinking, and productivity easier. These tools are also designed to make involvement in the process comfortable and desirable. Frustrations of frequently experienced creative blocks and resistance are at last solved.
5. The use of play, compassion and gentleness are believed in this model to be essential to creative progress.  The approach also uses unconventional tools, which shift the individual into a sphere of possibility and easily enlists long lasting commitment.
6. In this model, creative blocks due to fears, self-perception and habits are differentiated from lack of progress due to self-sabotage.  Once the origin of obstacles to creative progress is identified, approaches are designed to best accommodate the individual’s needs. 
7. Clients are encouraged not to “beat themselves up” if they do not get to what was set as intentions because this is often times the same reason they have not been getting to their creative passions on their own.  The information gathered from no progress is considered more important than framing it as failure because now the coach can target what will best help.
8. One of the goals of Kaizen-Muse coaching is to teach the client to follow inner intuitive creative clues rather than rigidly adhering to directions given by teachers, books and other external sources.. This helps the client unlearn academic habits where success did not include following intuitive “aha” moments that take a non-linear form. Creative ingenuity is better able to flourish in a sphere without strict requirements. Often action toward one goal in the creative process can elicit new ideas. If rigid expectations keep the individual from considering anything but the original goal – many viable, ingenious opportunities may be dismissed. 
9. Prescriptions are purposely creative, imaginative, playful, and often indirect to match the mystery and non-linear nature of the creative process.
10. The tools trigger the child-like power that fuels creative motivation and the play that is necessary effortless dedication to the manifestation of  new ideas.