Kura Kimanna is a creativist
communication company combining a variety of creative skill sets along with
varying communicative forms as a mode of transformative help for those seeking
to broaden their horizons and extend past the boundaries of their current
creative communication skills. It will emphasize, but not limit itself to
utilizing skills and techniques that help foster and further healthy
relationships and habits as well as heighten and better overall creativity by
allowing others to conceptualize and realize their dreams, then proactively
seek authentically value-based creative means of accomplishing their goals.
Writing, editing, photography, life coaching, consulting, design and color
theory and elements, research, evaluations, process planning, stormwriting,
storyboarding, brainwriting, project boards, and interviewing will be the
primary means of working with clientele, but other creative elements may
present themselves in individual cases.
By utilizing a wide variety of
creativist means, coaching and consulting, and working from a Christian discipleship-based
life-view, Kura Kimanna's role in the community is to help awaken the
hearts of individuals and small groups seeking to break free of the mundanity
of a regular nine-to-five where they may not find the meaning they have been
searching for and allow them the room to transform their lives in a safe
setting where their creative pursuits will be sheltered, honored, uplifted, and
encouraged. Many people accept the job they need rather than one that fills
their passion, and others started out with passion where they are, but have
begun to lose their edge and zest for life. Kura Kimanna is here to help
bring back the zest! By helping with relationships, habits, and other everyday engagements,
as well as creativity, there is a triune encounter which helps alleviate the
problem of living a ho-hum life, for the one who seriously does the work to
improve. As with any coaching, consulting, or writings, action on the part of
the client will determine final fulfillment of the results, but Kura Kimanna
can assist people gain tools to utilize throughout their lives in whatever
aspect they wish once they are regular habits formed within the circle of
safety and encouragement provided.
Harmony L. Courtney, the creator of
Kura Kimanna, has skills, training, and experience in the areas of
communication, design, coaching, community services, organizational
administration, and research. She holds a BA in English and Master of Religion,
both from Warner Pacific College, as well as certificates in coaching from
Western Seminary. She has studied a wide variety of creative communication
techniques, and has experience working with women, children, and small groups
on creative endeavors. Her undergrad thesis was on the interconnectivity of
authenticity with tradition and choice, and her master’s thesis, Creative
Healing for Women in Crisis and the Role of the Church, was the impetus behind
Kura Kimanna’s formation.
Kura Kimanna comes from the Japanese
Kura, which symbolizes both their tea houses and the beautiful cherry blossoms
that gather on their trees each Spring, and Kimanna, a Shoshone word for
butterfly. Roughly translated, its essence suggests transformation, rebirth,
and newness. Kura Kimanna’s tagline is “The treasure house of
transformation.” It is run with Christ-centered ideals and valuations,
while welcoming anyone who is in need of a creative transfusion taught,
coached, and consulted over with a spirit of kindness.
While there are a lot of creative
schools and courses, as well as a lot of coaches, including those who seek to
help garner creativity, Kura Kimanna is the juxtaposition of creativist
mentalities, relational presencing, Christian ideology, authentic growth-seeking
patterns, and the allowance of trial and error. It will not only cover the
assistance of others’ creative endeavors, but that of its founder, which is
meant to inspire others toward their own growth. And as with any coaching
experience, it is collaborative in nature. Kura Kimanna’s goal is to be an
integrative, interactive, relationally-driven creative experience.
