Creative Values Question Bank

Creative Values Question Bank

For Coaches, Facilitators and Leaders

Supporting Meaningful Conversations About Creative Challenges and Authentic Expression

"Your desire to create must be greater than your fear of creating.”

200+ Questions to Open, Deepen, and Guide Creative Values Conversations

This question bank provides 200+ ready-to-use questions designed to help coaches, facilitators, and leaders open, deepen, and guide creative values conversations with clients or colleagues experiencing challenges, questioning their artistic voice, or seeking to align their creative practice with deeper truth.

Ten Essential Conversation Frameworks:

1. Opening Creative Values Conversations – Questions that help clients or colleagues identify what energises them creatively through creative energy, history, and aspiration
2. Recognising Creative Misalignment – Questions that reveal creative challenges, understand creative resistance, and notice signals of creative disconnection
3. Clarifying Creative Core Values – Questions that help clients or colleagues name what matters creatively, test creative understanding, and distinguish between creative values
4. Creative Values in Decision-Making – Questions for facing creative choices, navigating creative trade-offs, and testing creative decisions
5. Moving Toward Creative Alignment – Questions that explore creative possibilities, identify creative steps, and address creative resistance
6. Handling Criticism and Creative Vulnerability – Questions for processing creative feedback, navigating vulnerability, and building creative resilience
7. Creative Community and Connection – Questions for finding creative support, building creative dialogue, and sharing creative values
8. Sustaining Creative Practice – Questions for maintaining creative alignment, recognising creative evolution, and balancing values with practical reality
9. Creative Values in Teaching and Mentoring – Questions for supporting other creators and creating safe creative spaces
10. When Creative Values Conflict with Success – Questions for navigating creative success, choosing creative integrity, redefining creative success, and holding space for creative exploration 

Throughout the question bank, questions are organised by professional development  purpose, allowing you to quickly find language that fits your client’s or colleague’s current moment. Each section includes questions that invite creative exploration, helping others discover their own clarity about authentic creative expression and how to honour those values in their artistic practice.

This resource stands alone as a practical tool for immediate use in professional development sessions, with deeper exploration of creative values available in School of WorkLife's Creative Values: Overcoming Creative Blocks.

One-time purchase. Unlimited professional use in individual and group settings.