Sheena Wilkie – Creativity Practitioner & Coach

Reclaiming Our Creative Selves

I am curious by nature, always asking questions, exploring ideas, and learning alongside others. Coaching has been a thread running through much of what I have done.

For more than 35 years, my professional life in communications and new media has been about helping people find their story, clarify what they wanted to say, and discover the best way to bring their ideas to life. I worked closely with clients from a wide range of organizations, listening, asking questions, exploring possibilities and helping them move from an initial idea into something they could bring to life. Much of that work was less about providing answers and more about helping people find their own way forward.

Teaching became another expression of that same approach. I spent a decade teaching photography and communications at British Columbia Institute of Technology and later, through my private school Photo Gurus, discovered how meaningful it can be to create supportive environments where people can learn, experiment, build confidence and discover something new.

Whether I was working with a communications client, teaching a student, or working alongside someone on a creative project, I have always been drawn to the same role: asking questions, encouraging possibilities, sharing what I know, and helping people discover what they are capable of.

These days, I’m bringing that experience to a different question: creativity itself.

What happens when we lose touch with our creative selves? What gets in the way of making room for creativity? And what might happen when we give ourselves permission to explore, experiment and find our way back?

I know these questions because I am working through them myself.