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Creative Mentoring

Inspire Self-Advocacy

Young people love a process that allows them to explore and express in a playful manner. A creative mentor can co+create purposeful play/ maker activities and experiences alongside your child. This allows your child or young adult to draw their own conclusions by encouraging conversations around situations they are learning to navigate. 

Encourage Reflection

A creative mentor, knows the right questions to ask and explores ways of addressing these questions alongside your child. Children recognize when change is needed, but may be unable to identify precisely what that change is. Kids love a process that allows them to explore and express in a playful manner.

My Process

includes developing creative and artful-maker activities which:


• Nurture Imagination as the core to creative & social development.

• Guide youth toward emotional empowerment. 

• Enable youth to question the world around them.

• Create inspired dialogues. 

• Introduce creative problem-solving skills

• Gain self-awareness. 

• Develop opportunities to make decisions necessary to create personal change.  


* Please note, the exact process I will use is dependent upon your child and their needs/ interests. After we have discussed your goals, I will create an individualized plan of action.



Sometimes, "regular life" can cause changes in how a child or

young adult are perceiving their world. Things like: 

changing schools, changes in friendships, a parents divorce 

or new partner… a pandemic. 


Some of these events, although common in our society, are new 

and perhaps a little frightening to the novice. When kids find they are 

unable to verbalize internal issues and in turn unable to express themselves

or address their concerns, parents can find themselves confronted

with confusing or unfamiliar behavior. 


Most of us have benefited from a helping hand when managing

real or perceived worries & discoveries about ourselves.


Trying to navigate day to day lives with evolving opinions and

change happening constantly, can result in a child or young adult

having trouble identifying ways to navigate these new thoughts,

feelings or ideas.  


I have helped kids/young adults as an unbiased guide introducing

means to explore and investigate new ideas. Along the way we 

discover sparked interests or ways to navigate/alleviate concerns.


  • I offer sessions tailored to an individual or small group: I will conduct

       age-appropriate activities upon which to build a safe space to become comfortable with ways of navigating these new challenges. 


  • Sessions work well when designed to include; Drawing, Digital Photography, Painting and/or Crafts. 


  • All guided in a manner which encourages Creative & Mindful Expression. 


•Introduce creative problem-solving skills. 

 •Create opportunities to nurture curiosity & imagination.

•Enable kids to question the world around them.

•Nurture Emotional Empowerment (SEL).


               Contact for more information.

                 jilliansuzanne@me.com



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