Melissa Dunlop Advisory

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Melissa Dunlop Advisory

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Workshops and supervision

Online Group Supervision

Online Group Supervision

Booking now for September 2024


Social Dreaming

Online Group Supervision

Discover a shared unconscious landscape

Exploration and Integration Retreat

Coming in Summer 2025

Soundscaping Our Interdependence

Soundscaping Our Interdependence

An event, a provocation, a harmonising process

Writing to Inquire

Soundscaping Our Interdependence

Creative Reflection Sessions

Find what matters and make connections

Creative Reflection Sessions

Soundscaping Our Interdependence

Creative Reflection Sessions

Using non-verbal processes

INTERPERSONAL WORKSHOPS FOR TEAMS IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Creative partnership running off course?

Rooted in Creative-Relational Theory and Practice

In high-growth creative agencies, label offices, and studios, leadership is an intensely emotional act. Founders and executives spend their days absorbing the anxieties of their teams, managing the volatile temperaments of creative talent, and carrying the heavy weight of commercial pressure.


You are expected to be the steady anchor for everyone else. But constantly containing that pressure without a space to process it leads to a quiet, profound exhaustion—and eventually, a fragmentation of your own creative energy.


I offer an elite, non-clinical holding environment. 


A completely confidential, reflective space designed specifically for creative leaders to untangle complex relational dynamics, explore unconscious friction, and reclaim their psychological grounding.

Rooted in Creative-Relational Theory and Practice

Rooted in Creative-Relational Theory and Practice

This is not strategic business coaching or corporate performance management. It is a tightly bounded, yet surprisingly  expansive creative relationship in which much needed reflections and insights are enabled to arise, using  an approach specifically tailored to the needs of leadership in the creative industries. 


My advisory framework allows us to look beneath the surface of your business, drawing on:


  • A PhD in Creative-Relational Inquiry (University of Edinburgh)
  • Expertise in Narrative Frameworks: Helping you examine the unspoken internal scripts and stories that shape how you lead, react, and relate.
  • Psychosocial, Psychodynamic & Systemic Insight: Understanding and navigating the invisible assumptions and  emotional undercurrents that pass between co-founders, partners, and artists.
  • Over 15 years experience as a psychotherapist and supervisor and a diverse, international client portfolio  


Together, we look at the human complexities of your enterprise with openness, depth and absolute confidentiality.

Narrative Reset (Project-based)

Narrative Reset (Project-based)


Intensive 3-day workshop using creative action methods, writing, sound, and more as appropriate.


Helps a leadership or creative team realign their vision during  critical times or crises



Start off on the Right Foot

Narrative Reset (Project-based)

 

Workshop for newly forming teams to get to know one anothere as creative a

find an alighed vision.



£3,500/Month Offered exclusively to leaders who have completed Phase 1. 


An ongoing, asynchronous sanctuary in your pocket. A place to process the emotional and relational weight of your day-to-day decisions as they happen.

  • Asynchronous Holding Space: Drop voice notes or thoughts via [WhatsApp or Signal] whenever you face a difficult interpersonal situation, a talent crisis, or a moment of inner friction.
  • A Reflective Counterweight: I review your situations with fresh, calm, and objective eyes during my dedicated afternoon windows—returning grounding audio reflections and relational suggestions to help you respond from a place of clarity rather than reactivity. 
  • Fortnightly Dialogue Session: Two pre-scheduled, 50-minute live reflective sessions per month to sit down, integrate our insights, and steady your long-term vision.

Protecting the Creative Well

Protecting the Creative Well

This advisory model works because it honors the slow, deep focus required for meaningful creative and psychological work. I model the boundaries I help you build.

  • Mornings (8:00 AM – 12:00 PM): Off the grid. This time is strictly protected for diaried meetings, independent research and creative  writing projects.
  • Afternoons (1:00 PM – 5:00 PM): Present for you. This is when I step into your world, listen deeply to your voice notes, and craft reflective responses. I am here for up to an hour as needed on a daily weekday basis.


We do not chase the frantic, reactive pace of the music and creative industries. You drop your thoughts, your messy drafts, and your emotional friction into our secure space whenever they surface. I meet them with stillness, depth, and clarity.

Step into the Space

Protecting the Creative Well


To maintain  my capacity to provide a sharp presence and engaged holding environment, I limit my practice to just three active retainer clients at any given time.


If you are a creative or music industry leader seeking a rigorous and deeply reflective anchor to navigate your enterprise, let us find out if our minds align.



For a short but unhurried 15-minute conversation.

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