"the best expense our management team ever approved!"
Kathy Earley, coastline show chorus
for directors
One-on-one coaching producing iMMEDIATE results
Jan’s “Coach on Call” program provides one-on-one coaching support and inspiration for directors and is the transformational foundation of the inner coaching process. The purpose behind the individual coaching is to provide the support to help place the chorus director, as the primary person inspiring the chorus’ success, in a personal position of strength, balance and positive leadership. Individual telephone coaching sessions over a 3-6 month period help the director clarify and focus their work, leverage their strengths, identify barriers to success and provide the support needed for them to embrace and implement positive new possibilities. One-on-one coaching will significantly impact the director’s approach and effectiveness as a leader and also create powerful personal change in their life outside rehearsal.
What directors Say
“A large part of our success as a chorus was the inspiration and direction I received from Jan’s coaching. Speaking to her on chorus rehearsal days really got my mind focused on the task at hand, and helped me to create an atmosphere at rehearsals that allowed the singers to bring all of themselves as individuals to the rehearsal. I was able to put more of my skills to work, and the entire chorus benefited from my sessions with Jan.”
Becki Hine
“I had no idea what a tremendous impact coaching with Jan would have on me and my chorus. The entire chorus is more positive, and we are singing better than ever before!”
Jean Flinn
“Every chorus has its ups and downs, and chorus directors have to be really good at surfing those waves and keeping their balance through it all. I found Jan at a time when my director’s surfboard had just been swamped, and she helped me regain a new sense of balance and love for the sport. I asked her to help me light new pathways for myself as a director, and in the process she has helped me find new pathways for my life.
Julie Starr
“My one on one sessions with Jan have made a huge impact on my approach to directing and in my everyday life. The support, encouragement and positive messages received are immeasurable.”
Katie Blackwood
“…the work done one on one with me radiated throughout my personal and professional lives. Reframing to focus on the positive, trust of self and others, and “just BE it” were some of the highlights that continue to make me a better musician, director, and human being to this day”
Ryan Heller
embrace positive new possibilities!
for leadership teams & Regional Faculty
establish high-functioning,generative Leadership
The Music and Management Leadership Teams are critical to the inner coaching process as they are the ones who are supporting and implementing the chorus vision and the work of the director. Not only are the leadership teams responsible for modeling the behaviors that the chorus will follow, they are also responsible for ensuring that the best possible atmosphere exists for the director and the musical product to go forward unimpeded. The leadership has a huge potential impact and it is essential that everyone in a leadership role has the knowledge and skills and feels confidently empowered to inspire a consistent and positive chorus culture of excellence.
Leadership Team sessions work from the inside out to address the core values that make the team function. Team sessions are customized depending on the needs of each individual chorus with goals of unifying approach, establishing high-functioning team cultures, cohering teams around a common vision, clarifying communication styles, reframing limiting beliefs, eliminating barriers to success and creating conditions for a chorus culture of joy and excellence. Support or companion workshop activities can involve visioning, goal setting, or leadership development.
Transformational work with the Leadership Teams can be done through evening workshops, comprehensive weekend retreats, group conference calls or ZOOM sessions
What leaders Say
Patricia Veen & Jocosa Bruce
Becki Hine
Peggy McBride
Judy Weipert
create a chorus culture of joy!
for choruses
Supercharge joy and excellence
Inner Coaching programs for choruses are customized to meet the unique needs of each chorus. Chorus sessions focus on the themes and principles that will create a chorus culture based on the generative Appreciative Approach, which helps create the best environment for learning, growth, joy and possibility, and leverages peak performance potential.
Chorus sessions are customized and take chorus members through a series of experiential exercises that move them through many of the inner coaching concepts such as the power of intention, focus, eliminating limiting beliefs, connecting energy, elimination of the interferences that act as a barrier to peak performance, chorus unity and core beliefs, silencing of the inner critic, the power of acknowledgment and more. More comprehensive weekend retreats can include deeper visioning, team-building and possibility-creation activities.
What choruses Say
“We’ve all been changed by yesterday and we won’t be going back. Your warmth, energy and generosity of spirit are amazing. And your stamina – fantastic!”
Glenn Chaney
“The things I learned from Jan were incredibly valuable.She has helped to shape my rehearsals and coaching sessions into positive learning experiences for everyone, and this has flowed through into my work and my home life as well. Every singer can benefit from attending one of Jan’s workshops and reading her books.”
Glenda Lloyd
Clay Hine
“Thank you for your inspiration. I want to tell you how much I am taking your advice with my new chorus. As director I have been creating a real environment for growth by giving lots of positive reinforcement to all of the members and the results are phenomenal. I see a bright future for the chorus and myself.”
Heather Solomon
Ignite Possibilities Now!
for quartets
achieve your highest level of excellence
Jan’s Inner Coaching work with quartets is fully customized based on the needs of each quartet which are established in a preliminary meeting or conference call. Jan works from the inside out to help create and support an enhanced mental and emotional quartet unit with a shared goal of achieving their highest level of excellence while being present in a joyful shared experience.
What quartets Say
Right Now Quartet
Over the Moon Quartet
enhance your quartet unit now!
books by jan carley
live your full performance potential
The Overtone Effect
Every individual, team and organization has the capacity to create something greater than the sum of its parts and feel the OVERTONE EFFECT. The results? Increased joy, effectiveness, and extraordinary success. Using the phenomenon of overtones as a metaphor for creating results that go well beyond what you ever thought possible, the proven step-by-step "Overtone System" will guide you to hit the high notes and take your personal or organizational performance from predictable to remarkable.
Harmony from the inside out 10th Anniversary Revised Edition
Inspired by the extensive coaching work she has done with high level a cappella choruses worldwide, Jan Carley has written a powerfully insightful book filled with practical concepts and exercises that will shift limiting paradigms and instantly open up infinite possibilities for your work, your team and your life.
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