Coaching
& Mentoring
Creativity • Generativity • Breakthrough
with Judith-Kate Friedman
Are you ready for a breakthrough this year?
As a coach I champion the creative within all people. I meet you where you are.
My clients are: Creatives taking on new projects or longing to get unstuck,
Emerging artists and long-time dreamers who want to find and express their voices with freedom and confidence,
Leaders, healers, and teaching artists who know the power of the arts for uplifting the spirit and bridging divides, who want to add new expertise and proven results with the community they serve.
“Judith-Kate’s sessions opened energetic and creative portals within me that are already manifesting change and new possibilities and awareness in my life.”
Transformational Creative Coaching can:
• Ignite your Enthusiasm
• Open Possibilities
• Support You to Create More Beauty
• Help You Move from Old into New Stories
IF YOU ARE beginning to come into your own voice artistically, or you are starting a new artistic endeavor or, if you have a vision of contributing to the world, your family, community, or field of work, Creative Coaching can expand your:
• Freedom of Creative Expression
• Vitality, Joy, Ease, Fun, and Delight
• Greater Meaning and Purpose
and even
• Love
Do you:
• Long to achieve success on your own terms?
• Wish you could realize your creative ideas more fully?
• Feel held back by skill gaps or fears when it comes to fully expressing your truth or being your full artistic self?
When conditions are set for success, creativity blooms.
In transformational coaching, we work together to catalyze a breakthrough. You’ll move from stuckness, loneliness, clutter, or a lack of resources, to be able to see, map, and begin to transform your life with more courage, confidence, and tools for sustaining your well-being.
“Working with Judith-Kate has changed my life….She tends to the fullness of the person…As one on her own self-work journey, she has been able to lovingly and honestly point out when my still-often-unconscious woundings of ‘taking on too much’ or ‘taking on what isn’t mine’ were coming into play.”
“Each of us holds a part of the great puzzle of what’s needed at this time for the well-being of all. As we honor all of who we are, personally, and as a society, everyone wins.”
—Judith-Kate Friedman
Creative Leadership Coaching and Mentoring can:
• Increase Your Competence and Confidence
• Enliven your Teaching and Leadership Style
• Catalyze your Constituents!
• Deepen and sustain more joy for yourself
IF YOU ARE a professional musician, author, artist, or creative working in expressive fields, Creative Mentoring can enhance your:
• Vocal, Performance, Songwriting or Stage Skills
• Power of Presence
• Success as a Teaching Artist
• Synergy with Workplace Staff and Teams
• Repertoire of Income Generating Options
“Judith-Kate’s work has so much soul and life to offer all who tune in.”
Do you have a specific CREATIVE PROJECT on which you’d like to FOCUS?
Book a SERIES of Sessions or a Project Package in:
• Creative Coaching
• Creative Mentoring
or
• Creative Leadership Mentoring
See real results as you move on a transformational arc from Inception and Development to Completion, Celebration and Harvest.
Pricing
Coaching and Mentoring
tailored to support your personal transformative creative breakthroughs
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In this initial 90-minute session we’ll discuss your goals, visions, and areas of priority for Breakthrough. You’ll describe your current zones of experience, artistic and otherwise, and we’ll assess your creative resources.
I'll guide you in creating a 2025 breakthrough action plan with a step-by-step map to a specific, measurable creative–or life–goal: the breakthrough you wish to achieve.Together, we'll identify needs, tools, exercises, and resources to support your success. Toward the end of the session we’ll explore next steps including the package, creative group cohort, or combination of resources that can best support you to fulfill your vision and have a breakthrough year.
Note, this Activation session is a pre-requisite for continuing with single coaching or mentoring sessions or with 3- 5-, and 10- session coaching packages.
An Individual Activation session is not required for the Creative Cohorts in the Your Breakthrough Year programs, however this session can be added to enhance decision-making or to customize your Breakthrough plan, following the free 18-minute breakthrough call.
The Activation session price will be applied toward fees for any continuing program I offer in 2025, including the 3-, 5- and 10-session coaching or mentoring packages, and Creative Breakthrough Cohorts.
90-minute Intake Activation Session
Individual $275
Couples/Collaborators $450 -
Home in on a specific project or issues or get an overview of how Creative Breakthrough Coaching can support you to achieve your goals.
Held on zoom or in-person in Northwest, WA
60-min Single Session
Individual - $225 session
Couples/Collaborators - $400
90-min Single Session
Individual - $325 session
Couples/Collaborators - $500 -
The “Free/Find your Voice/Vision, Speak/Sing Your Truth” is a coaching package attuned to your next breakthrough in expression, ease, and satisfaction. Sessions are 90-minutes unless other arrangements are made.
Choose from a 3-, 5-, or 10-session package.
3 Session package (4.5 total hours):
$640 ($160/per hour)
5 Session package:
$1050 for 7.5 total hours ($140/hour)
10-session package (best pricing!):
$1,725 for 15 total hours ($115/hour)
Sample arc of sessions:
Session 1:
Coaching Assessment + Power Plan (90min)
Session 2 (through 8):
Coaching for your Transformational Breakthrough (90 min)
Session 3:
Harvest Celebration (90 min)
Coaching sessions are held on zoom or in-person in Northwest, WA, US -
Individual mentoring offers songwriters, performers, emerging mythtellers, community/social practice and multi-modal artists a combination of hands-on skills building, creative and performance coaching, and attention to living into one’s artistry in context of your creative field and our current times.
Mentorships are arranged seasonally for one to six months beginning in April 2025. There are currently openings for three adults and three teen/young adult mentees.
Each Mentorship is co-created with the mentee specific to their focus.
Frequency of online or face to face sessions, weekly or monthly, are determined after the first activation session (see personal coaching).
In addition to private sessions, mentees may have opportunities to participate in small group workshops with fellow artist-mentees.
Each mentorship begins with an Individual Breakthrough Coaching session in which we assess the suitability of a mentorship for your needs and vision.
Pricing is based upon individual coaching rates (see sessions and packages above).Schedule a breakthrough call
Pricing (first 6 months of 2025):
Intake session - 90 min $275
Follow up sessions - 90 min $225
Follow up sessions - 60 min $175
Inquire about special rates for students and working artists -
The mentoring experience can be expanded to include loved ones, clients, a friendship group, workplace teams, staff/leadership, or community constituents.
Pricing is based upon individual coaching packages (above) with additional savings for groups of three or more.
Mentoring for Vocalists, Performers, Songwriters, Speakers and Teaching Artists
Creative Leadership Mentoring
and Consulting for
Community Builders and Arts Leaders
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Judith-Kate offers coaching and mentoring for vocalists, performers, songwriters and community teaching artists.
Mentorships are most frequently one-to-one but can be designed in small group, master class, and staff training formats.
Sessions can take place online or in person (travel costs additional).
Individual sessions:
Pricing is based upon individual and mentorship coaching rates. (See Individual Coaching abov).
Small and Larger groups:
Mentoring can include components of any of Judith-Kate’s Teaching Artist Trainings or the full training (see songwritingworks.org and mythsingerlegacy.org to learn more about Judith-Kate’s work with teaching artists.
Mentorships can also be integrated into undergraduate and graduate-level curriculum or agency training programs. Specific mentoring project design is determined in collaboration with hosting agency and funding partners.
Past clients include the University of Cincinnati Schools of Music and of Medicine (OH) and Arts WA (the Washington State Arts Commission).
Discuss your specific needs and visions in breakthrough call with Judith-Kate. -
As founder and CEO of Songwriting Works™ Educational Foundation, Judith-Kate has designed music engagement programs for elders, youth, and others across the spectrum of physical, cognitive, and emotional capacities for 35 years.
Mentoring programs and trainings for teaching artists, health/wellness practitioners, advocates and loved ones take place online and in care and community settings.
Schedule a breakthrough call to discuss how mentoring in Songwriting Works’ method and 8 Principles of Creative Engagement can enhance the efficacy and well being of your staff, artists, family members and constituents you serve. -
Judith-Kate Friedman co-founded and co-directed the Psalms, Songs and Stories™ project with Rabbi Sheldon Marder at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living (2003-2019).
The program is now available as a co-facilitated experience in which Judith-Kate and a clergy person or scholar well-versed in Psalms or other wisdom literature collaborate together to serve specific community needs in a one or two day workshop or a series of sessions (online or in person).
The experience brings participants on a journey into one or more liturgical texts through diverse translations and related artwork. They then co-compose original musical compositions using the Songwriting Works™ approach.
Past projects have engaged elder Jews (average age 88) residing in long-term care settings , rabbinical students and community elders co-writing together, congregants of all ages composing songs for holidays, and interfaith groups using the study and songwriting experience to share diverse perspectives, listen deeply to each other, and turn their heartfelt understandings into memorable songs.
All arrangements are made in collaboration with Project host(s). Pricing varies.
Learn more at
judithkate.com/heritage-celebration
and songwritingworks.org
or schedule a breakthrough call with Judith-Kate
“My work with Judith-Kate Friedman is one of the highlights of my forty years as a rabbi. I consider it a turning point in my work with Jewish elders.”
“Judith-Kate brings incredible value to people through her weaving of song, storytelling and the arts, and in her offerings, courses, and coaching.”
Why take the coaching or mentoring leap?
BECAUSE:
• Your voice matters.
• You have tremendous creative capabilities. (We all do!)
• Creative expression can lead to longer life and more joy. (This is research proven.)
The “BRASS TACKS”:
HOW TO GET STARTED:
1/ Schedule a free 18-minute “breakthrough” call to discuss your vision and the breakthrough you’d like to experience. In this initial conversation, we’ll explore ways to work together to support you to meet your goals and map out options for your success.
2/ Determine which coaching or mentoring session, or series, will support you as you make steady progress. Coaching sessions can be individual, or you may pair with a loved one or collaborating partner. Each session and series ‘package’ is customized to your goals, needs, and learning style.
Structured sessions, Spontaneous spaciousness:
3/ The first session is a 90-minute “activation” which includes a thorough assessment of your current creative situation and your goals for coaching or mentoring. During this session we determine the shape or customized “arc of transformation” for your personal and/or professional breakthrough.
4/ The power of a series .While much transformation can begin to be catalyzed in a single session, clients who get the most significant and lasting results from transformational creative coaching are those who make a commitment to their own journey. When you give yourself the gift of time, intention, support, and consistent accountability, in a 3-, 5-, or 10-session package, magic happens. (See package descriptions, above).
About your coach and mentor Judith-Kate Friedman:
I’m a life-long musician, multi-modal artist, and creative leader specializing in transformation. For more than 35 years, I’ve coached creatives of all ages and heritages. My passion and expertise is to help every person to become the artist - and creative person - they’re born to be.
My coaching meets you where you are and is guided by principles of access, inclusion, and respect.
I champion originality and authenticity and believe in the power of the arts and the importance of artists in society.
I also know how ‘whole-making’ it can be to be seen, heard, and accompanied on the restorative journey of finding or expanding one’s voice and contributions.
My life as a composer, performer and explorer in music has brought me around the world.
My work as a teaching artist has given me an in-depth understanding of working with individuals and groups across the continuum of physical, neuro-cognitive, and emotional/mental capacities (including myself). I’ve collaborated extensively across generations, with people from age 4 to 106.
Coaching and mentoring individuals and communities who are committed to exploring and growing their creative artistry is an honor and a joy.
If you are one who embraces using the arts to deepen the quality of your own life and the lives of those whom you love and serve, I look forward to our working together.
Interested in coaching as part of a group cohort?
Ask about 2025 Summer Creative Cohorts including “Finding Courage,” “Skilled Yet Thirsty,” and “Seasoned and Still Amazed!”.
Each cohort participant chooses a package that includes one or more individual coaching sessions and additional bonuses. Info here.
Payment in full via Paypal, Venmo, or Check is due before the first session unless other arrangements made in advance.
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Questions about pricing or need to address costs?
Special circumstances will be considered on a case by case basis.
Contact Judith-Kate via email at judelsings@gmail.com
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