Open To Create... Co creating creative successes case study Showcasing how Open To Create... worked with Jennifer Leach, Director Outrider Anthems. By working with Open To Create... Jennifer created the following results; • Feeling more confident and proactive • Setting up Outrider Anthems as a business • Instigating and engaging in meaningful collaborations • More motivated to write successful budgets and funding plans • Securing Heritage Lottery funding for Wilfred Owen project • Being assertive around professional pay and acknowledgement

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2. Jennifer Leach is an artist, director, writer and community activist
with a young family and a studio based on a narrow boat in Reading, UK.
Jennifer runs her own creative business showcasing the range of her creative
film making, installation and storytelling talents – Outrider Anthems.
What creative challenges was Jennifer facing?
Jennifer originally approached Open To Create... to gain insights into
raising finance for her latest performance piece Crow!
This initial face to face meeting sparked an ongoing creative partnership
using coaching, mentoring and creative problem solving tools to support
Jennifer to seek her own solutions to grow her arts making practice and
creative business skills through establishing new producing partnerships
and raising new Heritage Lottery project financing.
“I was stuck, in a gridlock, and
dreaming of being out on
the open road.
I wanted to know what was
preventing me from engaging
with myself and my
creativity in ways that would
allow me to fly.”
“I wanted to gift myself
the time and space to ask
what unproductive
subliminal messages I was
feeding myself.”
“I wanted to ask myself the
hardest question of all – what
could I be and do if I allowed
myself to be as powerful can I
be?
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How did we work with Jennifer?
“Anna worked with me with such loving and practical insight, focussing
unremittingly bright light on the dark shadows of my mind, until I had
dealt with the gremlins lurking therein. Less than a year down the line,
it is inconceivable to me now that I could have bought into the
self-doubt and creative paralysis for the number of years I did.”

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How did Jennifer create the results she wanted?
We offered Jennifer a range of results driven creative business development
and hands on creative coaching and mentoring packages; designed
specifically to fit around Jennifer’s available budget, time frame and a schedule
to support her around her ongoing and busy business and family commitments.
Open To Create... is known for inspiring creativity & nurturing talent
to grow robust & sustainable creative businesses.
We will work with you to feel more empowered, vibrant & alive.
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What results has Jennifer created for herself?
• Feeling more confident and proactive
• Setting up Outrider Anthems as a business
• Instigating and engaging in meaningful collaborations
• More motivated to write successful budgets and funding plans
• Securing Heritage Lottery funding for Wilfred Owen project
• Being assertive around professional pay and acknowledgement
“When I read these
words of Wilfred Owen,
my own sails fill with
gratitude, and I think of
Anna..
“I am started. The tugs
have left me; I feel the
great swelling of the open
sea taking my galleon.”
Unexpected creative
collaborations
Jennifer created a beautiful
film capturing the spirit of
Ignite Your Creativity
Retreat now uploaded to
Bag of Creative Surprises © creative problem solving

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Anna B. Sexton
Director
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London E14 0NT
020 7515 9451
07941 655 856
anna@opentocreate.com
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