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Finding the Door from a Dark Room

Finding the Door from a Dark Room

By Chris Grady on May 11, 2019

I wrote this article for a Coaching website and they told it was too personal. That’s the only way I know how to write and so I decided not to de-sensitise it by talking about “a coach” when I mean to share my own experience. I hope you find my thoughts useful, and I’d love […]

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New Year’s Resolutions - sensible settings, hopefully

New Year’s Resolutions – sensible settings, hopefully

By Chris Grady on December 28, 2018

I’m a coach with years of experience of helping others to set achievable goals, so I know how to do it. Tonight I decided to ensure I saw an average of 1 theatre show a week across the Scottish professional scene (excluding the EdFringe) for 2019. Easy. Just do it. Kath kindly challenged me and […]

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Big Ears and the Escalator - coaching

Big Ears and the Escalator – coaching

By Chris Grady on September 25, 2018

4 years ago I started “formal” coaching with a certificate from the Coaching Academy in my file. For a year or so it took up around 1/3rd of my time, and then I slowed down as my work with Mountview Academy of Theatre grew. Now I am settled with my skype and laptop in my […]

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New book – The Anatomy of Your Creativity

By Chris Grady on June 23, 2016

There’s something strange that happens when you’ve been in a process for months, in this case preparing for a new e-book, and then you get an email to say it is published. A bit like awaking after months of preparing for a show, doing the first night , and then going “right – need to […]

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At a crossroads …. two coaches coming along

By Chris Grady on June 8, 2016

I’ve been reading a lot recently about the challenges young people face with the crazy education system we have developed in this, and most other Western countries. I am inspired by the writing of Sir Ken Robinson (Essence) and Susan Cain (Quiet) – I wish governments were similarly inspired. We are creating generation after generation […]

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What's The Point ? - chasing January blues...

What’s The Point ? – chasing January blues…

By Chris Grady on January 18, 2016

I occasionally lay awake at night and wonder “what’s the point of a Grady?” and last night was one of those nights. It’s January. It’s a week after the high energy and amazing creative ideas of Devoted and Disgruntled in Birmingham, and there’s a pile of emails and loads of facebook posts showing the amazing […]

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Creative Life Support – business direction

Creative Life Support – business direction

By Chris Grady on July 1, 2015

  It was in May of last year that I started my first coaching sessions, and it’s about 12 months since my first pay-what-you-can clients signed up. In December I passed my diploma in personal coaching, and I currently have 20 clients with whom I work. I have been blessed with enough time to study […]

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The Arts is a serious business

The Arts is a serious business

By Chris Grady on June 28, 2015

Have you ever stood up to do a talk, or been introduced to a business “suit”, and known that they don’t really take you seriously as a business leader. Even worse, have you sat with your Board (as I have) and heard them talking about business as if you were the fluffiest kid on the […]

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Thank you, Overcome Fear, Know Yourself, and Ask Advice

Thank you, Overcome Fear, Know Yourself, and Ask Advice

By Chris Grady on June 22, 2015

Over Friday and Saturday last week I did CGO Surgeries and coaching sessions with 16 different creative artists from London, UK, Montreal and Los Angeles. It is a time when each practitioner looks at the challenges they are having with their creative life and/or business, and we try to create a positive immediate way forward. […]

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Two themes – proud audience member and inspired workshop leader.

Two themes – proud audience member and inspired workshop leader.

By Chris Grady on April 18, 2015

Last week I saw my son, Michael Grady-Hall, play Oppenheimer in the West End. A planned performance in the Vaudeville RSC schedule when the amazing John Heffernan was off and his understudy, Michael, played. It was an electric performance.   Yesterday I was in Stratford to see the understudy run of the RSC’s Death of A […]

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