About Laura Hansen

I am an artist, world traveller, and former owner and CEO of a leading eldercare company. Since selling my company several years ago I have experienced my own creative rebirth and artistic awakening and now also help others on their creative journeys. I use art and creativity practices to help others deepen their relationship with themselves, learn to trust their intuition and open to a fuller expression of their creativity both in their art and in their lives. My lifelong fascination with art, languages and the study of cultures has taken me on journeys around the world. A number of years ago I made a five-week pilgrimage to Nepal and spent a month in solitude in the Canadian Wilderness as part of my own spiritual and creative journey. I returned from these journeys inspired to share two things with other women: the power of travel as pilgrimage - travel as both an inner and an outer journey - and the power of following our creativity into

deeper levels of authentic self expression. I have been a practitioner of Iyengar yoga and Vipassana meditation for 15 years and weave these practices into my artistic work and my work with others. I lived for two years in Florence, Italy, studying Studio Art and Art History. My background also includes working as the Assistant Director in a prominent Art Gallery in New York City, a career in Organizational Development, extensive experience in group facilitation, a Masters in Clinical Social Work, and a degree in Studio Arts and advanced studies in Expressive Arts.