WHO WE WORK WITH
Monstre Sacré (sacred monster) is a coaching and consulting service for alternative, underground, diy, queer, sex workers or off-the-grid artists, musicians, writers, creatives as well as entrepreneurs and small business people (and a few brave civilians!). This also includes creatives working in collaborative fields such as bands and other performers. Pets welcome (although I don’t coach them!)
WHAT WE DO
A creative co-conspiracy, Monstre Sacré helps you identify disruptions—psychological, emotional, existential—to your creative process. Our goal is to help you navigate these challenges, deal with fear and self-sabotage—or simply survive your own personality! Additionally, by helping you get on top of your personal and/or business finances, Monstre Sacré addresses the hell realm of creativity, cash and capitalism. Monstre Sacré is available by email, phone or in-person.
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HOW IT WORKS
Free coaching consultation
This complimentary meeting will go over current challenges and introduce you to the Monstre Sacré process.
Session by session, no "package" commitment required
Monstre Sacré allows you to set your own pace.
Coaching rates:
$50–$75 per hour, sliding scale. Price may vary for collaborative clients. Starving artist(s)? Committed to exploring alternative currencies, Monstre Sacré does its best to develop mutual sustainability.
Creative consulting and development
For those who would like us to roll up our sleeves and get in there with them on creative projects—developing stories, characters, performances, or visual ideas—this is something we truly love to do. We are also very happy to give feedback on work in progress, whether it is fleshing out a new idea, offering an analysis of what you have, or helping you jumpstart yourself at any stage of the process.
$50–$75 per hour, sliding scale.
Parallel Universe
This type of session provides structure and moral support. The way it works is simple: you bring in your own work to do, we do a brief check-in, and then we each work on our own project. We close with a check-in, progress report, and goal-setting for next time. Not as hands-on and intensive as coaching per se, but we find that many of our clients benefit immensely from this service.
$25–$40 per hour, sliding scale.
Detention! (currently suspended)
Like Parallel Universe, but for small groups (maximum 3 people). Detention is an affordable, low-key way to make sure you set aside time to get work done—whether catching up on sewing, completing your dissertation, or just paying the damn bills. Comes with coffee, wifi, tips on beating procrastination. See our Detention page for more details and get signed up.
$10 per 90-minute session, first time is FREE.
Coaching supervision
If you are a coach and are interested in additional support and guidance with your clients, feel free to contact us. We are available by phone or in person.
$50–$75 per hour, sliding scale.
WHO WE ARE
Head “monster” Wickie Stamps is a working artist and writer who has assisted people for decades in overcoming the obstacles in their lives. Deeply embedded in San Francisco's alternative artistic community, Wickie holds a Masters in Education and Counseling from Antioch University East. She has trained with the Creative Coaching Association, is a graduate of San Francisco State University’s Core Strength Coaching program, as well as a certified coach with Jill Badonsky’s Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching program.
Having started out with an intense background in countercultural politics and community work—from mental health care to the movement to establish the first battered women’s shelters—Wickie radically changed course over 20 years ago: she decided to commit herself to her own creative life, and took the plunge to become a working writer. Through a strange and wonderful hodgepodge of jobs, from alligator-meat cleaner to executive editor of funky magazines, trampoline-ride salesgirl to award-winning author and screenwriter, Wickie escaped the alligators’ clutches and now assists fellow travelers in pursuing their visions (and hopefully not their hallucinations). She has assisted lawyers and graphic designers, hip hop artists and burned-out rocker chicks, shamans and coffee brewers who are trying to balance art with paying the fucking bills. Come find your inner monster with Wickie!
Honorary monster Jed Bell runs Detention (and volunteers at the
SF SPCA).
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