MISSION

To foster creative transformation…

 

OUR VALUES

  • You are creative and we champion your human right to freely express this, your way.

    We foster you to transform your relationship with creative thinking, being and doing. You will re-ignite your inner creative mojo leaving you feeling empowered, more confident and resilient with a new toolkit to enhance your everyday creativity.

  • Being creative is a mindset, yet we can easily get fixed in our ways of thinking, being and doing. We value a growth mindset whilst taking a solution-focused, neuroscience approach to what tools are needed to inspire transformative thinking that leads to lasting, regenerative change. We value continuous,self reflective, learning/unlearning to offer the best, safest support. so client’s can embrace challenges and view failures as opportunities for growth.

  • When you feel fully heard you become more open to creating and taking risks within your life and team.

    When you better understand how your brain works, you can better re-align your creative thinking towards meaningful, solution-focused goals.

    We facilitate you to play as you learn and successfully use coaching and brain science tools to improve more open discussions and momentum.

    Our experience as MHFA and clinical solution focused hypnotherapist allow us to safely embed relaxation, breathworks and neuroscience to underin our client work.

  • Innovation through shared co-design thinking, empathy driven processes can lead to real world changes our world so needs to evolve and heal.

    We aim to support creative social innovation that encourages collaboration among team members, ensuring holistic problem-solving that aligns with user values.

    Human and lived-experience centring must underpin new innovation alongside challenging available and future resource use to make sure innovations respect people, planet. as well as grow a profit.

  • Building creative communities creates happier, more sustainable people and neighbourhoods.

    Our work seeks to encourage clients to become more active in growing robust, healthy and regenerative communities.

    We work face-to-face, online and hybrid modalities to widen access and participation.

    We build into our work the UN Sustainable Development Goals to enable our work to be impactful locally nd globally.

  • We really do have one body, one life and one planet so by integrating creative thinking, coaching, and wellbeing tools we aim to profoundly renew clients' thinking and practices. We want to empower more social activism in ourselves, others, social enterprise and our world as a whole.

    When we think more creatively we enhance our problem-solving abilities. Coaching transforms our ability to follow through on goals, building resilience, and accountability.

    Renewing our good health for better overall well-being allows us to sustain our ability to be an activist for change.

    Ultimately, Open To Create… is about building, not destroying, and contributing to renewalable growth - meaning our planet and people are enhanced not extracted from.

Creativity

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Mindset

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Wellbeing

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Innovation

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Community

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Renewal

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Creativity -- Mindset -- Wellbeing -- Innovation -- Community -- Renewal --

 

OUR MISSION continued

  • Empower proactive leaders, teams, and communities through creative and transformative learning.

  • Inspire and facilitate innovative thinking and actions.

  • Creative Toolkit Collaboration:

    • Harness our diverse creative toolkit to create collaborative and impactful learning experiences.

    • Encourage creativity and co-design in all aspects of our work.

  • Cultivate Changemakers:

    • Cultivate a new generation of innovative changemakers who embrace accessible, creative thinking, co-design, and draw from lived experiences.

    • Promote shared decision-making as a catalyst for positive change.

  • Address Global Challenges:

    • Inspire regenerative individuals, enterprises, and communities to tackle the world's greatest challenges for the benefit of future generations.

    • Champion sustainable solutions and responsible practices.

  • Values-Driven Commitment:

    • Operate as a values-driven social enterprise committed to continuous growth and learning.

    • Serve our clients and communities in remarkable and meaningful ways.

  • UN SDGs 2030 Participation:

    • Actively engage in the delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by aligning our efforts and initiatives with these global objectives.

    • Contribute to a more sustainable and equitable future through our work.

 

Let's go on a mission

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Let's go on a mission --

 
Anna B Sexton outside hold a creative inspiration card in focus, she is in the background wearing green top, short brown hair and brown glasses

building

caring

communities

I knew from being an outdoor youth worker, community gardener and environmentalist my business could be a more natural, force for good in the world…

 

BUSINESS MODEL

We are a micro-social enterprise that is client-led, learning / unlearning from lived experiences, and basing our work on co-design practices, empathy & professional best practices.

 

GIVE AS WE GROW

We offer pro bono work or proactive income generation partnerships to increase access to creative coaching, mentoring, training & well-being services in local communities in Liverpool, UK, whilst decreasing our impact on the planet.

 

PARTNERS

The Big Help Project

Hope Street Community Hub

Autism in Motion

RASA

The Hunger Project

Rachael Halliwell

 

Anna’s Strategic board & advisory group experience

2023 – to date        

BNI Midas chapter committee / events coordinator

2022 – to date        

Park Hill Road Allotment committee

2022 – 2023          

Cat Royale; Blast Theory Citizen arts and science advisory board

2022                      

UWE CERR Project Resilience Programme advisory board

The Resilience Toolkit for creative microbusinesses - use to calculate risk, and receive tailored advice linked to improving your resilience HERE

2021 – 2023           

Granby Community Land Trust (CLT) committee

2019 – to date        

Look Like Me Book Challenge - Ambassador

2017 – 2020           

The Other MA (TOMA) course co-creation

2016 – 2018           

Founder of RSA Creativity & Sustainability subgroup

2014 - 2018           

RSA Sustainability Network member

2011 – 2013          

Patron for Centre of Excellence for Women’s Entrepreneurship (CEWE), UEL

2011 – 2013          

Innovation Hubs member

2009 – 2011           

Greening Brownfield Community Garden Committee

2006 – 2010           

We Love Marlborough cooperative committee