I believe a truly happy life comes from listening to your intuition, exploring your curiosity and forging your own path...
Are you ready to turn your creative practice into a successful business or side job while prioritizing work-life balance?
I'm here to tell you that you can do it...
in your own way, aligned with your values and lifestyle.
First you'll want to get clear about what's important to you and determine where you want to go.
I'd love to walk you through the process...
Start From a Place of Freedom.
Do you want to feel free to do what you love?
Many of us, especially in these changing times, are drawn to working on our own terms, prioritizing work-life balance and focusing on what helps us thrive as humans.
Building out some part of a fulfilling creative practice into a business is a way to author your own story. Being a creative person does not mean you can't be a boss at business.
You can do it in your own way!
I've been doing it for 30 years.
I'm excited to show you how.
What You'll Learn in the Course...
The Visioning Your Mosaic Art Business course is an important starting point for any creative business.
Investigating your mission, goals and values. Understanding what's important and getting clear about where you want to go with your business and why.
You'll learn how to align your values with your business goals. How to work with your strengths, temperament and cycle of life. And how to pivot when necessary.
My vision for the course is to steer you in the direction of understanding yourself, your needs, desires, joys and challenges. With the aim of helping you foster success in your mosaic business, and your well-being too.
Whatever your goals and interest, I have created this course so that you can use the information to launch or develop a business that works for YOU.
Course modules offer an interdisciplinary approach to business -- combining mindfulness and business strategies specific to your creative practice.
Course Modules 1 - 3 focus on:
• Mindset
• Visioning
• Mindfulness as a business asset
Course topics include:
• Vision and freedom
• Come as you are
• Empowerment
• Valuing your ideas
• Doing what you love
• Loving what you do
• Making a living
• Motivations and goals
• Aligning personal and professional goals
• Working with your strengths
• Building beauty
• Career shift and life cycles
• Curating your life and business
• Internal checks and balances
• Maintaining work-life balance
And much more...
Imagine...
Imagine gaining a better understanding of yourself and what you want, and feeling confident about it.
Imagine having the space to explore options, try on ideas and assess your values, hopes and dreams related to your creative business practice.
Imagine being able to create a business from your mosaic practice that is enjoyable, manageable and profitable.
Sound pretty awesome?
Please join me for:
Visioning Your Mosaic Art Business
Content from Business of Mosaics Masterclass
This course is an important starting point for any creative business.
Do a deep investigation of your mission, goals and values.
Understand what's important and get clear about where you want
to go with your business, and why.
If you've been thinking about transforming your creative practice
into a professional practice, or enhancing your current practice,
this course is for you.
Visioning Your Mosaic Art Business provides a great opportunity to help you define, direct and build a vision for your mosaic business.
You'll learn to work with your strengths, temperament and life cycles to create a business that works for you and aligns with your goals and values.
I really resonated with the lessons around creating a vision and maintaining mindfulness and authenticity in your business.
I appreciated her supportive attitude throughout the modules, her belief in everyone’s ability to succeed in this business, and her reminders to regularly engage in self-reflection to guide us going forward.
-Monica F, Business of Mosaics Masterclass Graduate
Course Benefits
Your investment includes:
+ 20 instructional videos, organized by Module in easily digestible lengths, delivered in accessible, real world language
+ In-depth course materials organized by module (including 33 pdfs for download)
+ Supplementary materials to help you explore what you love, identify your goals and motivations, mindfulness tracker and much more
+ Access to a private online forum to connect with Business of Mosaics Masterclass learners and alumni
If you have questions about the course, please feel free to reach out.
Note: Although this course was designed specifically for mosaic artists, the content of this course is applicable to artists working in any medium.
In this course we investigate these questions and more...
How can we be a creative and run a business, or monetize a part of our creative practice?
How can we stay true to our selves, family and values while working in a capitalist system?
How can mindfulness be a business asset?
How can we maintain a work-life balance that honors our unique situation?
An important starting point for any creative business, this course leads you into an investigation of your mission, goals and values as they relate to not just business, but life.
Clear and do-able exercises help you lay an important foundation for your personal business approach and strategy.
You’ll gain and understanding of what’s important to you and get clear about where you want to go with your business and why.
This course teaches you how to align your core values with your business goals, how to work with your strengths, temperament and life cycles, and how to pivot when necessary.
Mindfully visioning your business and updating your vision and capacity regularly leads to sustainability, freedom and enjoyment in work and life.
Online Learning That Fits Your Schedule
Since the course is online you can access it from anywhere. And because it’s recorded, it’s accessible to you at your own pace. Perfect for all schedules.
Course content is available as soon as you register.
Course content is evergreen - meaning you can access it at your own pace and come back to it later. You can take as much time as you need to absorb the material. You may also enjoy the connectivity of other learners and alumni in our private online forum.
We all learn differently and our schedules vary. That's why I've created digestible, manageable bites of information that offer you freedom and flexibility. I want you to learn in a way that works for you!
What Students Have to Say...
The biggest takeaway of the course is that it reinforced that I was totally in control of my own self and business, and that there is no reason not to get what I really want, as long as I am willing to be honest with myself, learn what I need to, and work hard.
- Katie W, Course Graduate
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The first chapters, addressing defining my business and determining what kind of mosaic business I actually want, helped me understand and confirm what I'm striving for, and what I'm capable of.
-Barbara B, Course Graduate
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I have applied so much to my life and mindfulness practice. Of course YOU make this course enjoyable and exciting and inspiring -- it's your special sauce -- what you bring to all your classes -- your energy, your realness and your thoughtful and creative application of different philosophies.
-Vicki M, Course Graduate
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The structure was perfect - many modules with short videos made learning easier to digest and to refer back to. I was 100% focused during each Module.
- Shelley B, Course Graduate
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I am really impressed with how you have organized the modules into bite-sized info, and your lectures are digestible and super interesting.You are a truly great teacher.
- Katie W, Course Graduate
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The course structure and platform were perfect for me. I was able to do (the lessons) at my own pace. When I was really busy and didn't have a lot of time I could watch just a bit at a time and still make progress. The platform was very easy to use and I appreciated all the downloadable PDFs.
- Kathy S, Course Graduate
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Thank you for being so generous and organized with information on moving forward with turning my love of mosaics into a profitable business!
- Jennifer K, Course Graduate
****
The course handouts are exactly what I need as a reference at this point! The knowledge in them is thorough and spot-on in every module. The information was easy to digest and it is the BEST info I could get for my situation.
This course is a huge asset for an artist wanting to make a business out of their creative practice! I would absolutely recommend this course to others!
The course was concise and full of pertinent information. It was well-organized in timing and topics, with a boat load of info! All presented by a beautiful, witty and wise woman.
- Ippy F, Course Graduate
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Thank you again for such an amazing course and experience. I can't say enough how much I enjoyed the course!
- Monica F, Course Graduate
Course Curriculum
I invite you to watch the welcome video.
The lectures in each module range from a few minutes - 20 minutes. All lectures are broken down into sections that are easy to digest. You can proceed at the pace that works best for you.
- 2.1 Motivations (2:19)
- 2.2 Aligning Personal and Professional Goals (14:06)
- 2.3 Vision Statements (2:26)
- 2.4 Working With Your Strengths (2:04)
- 2.5 Manifestation... not a Secret. (6:35)
- 2.6 Building Beauty: Inspirations + Aspirations (5:11)
- 2.7 Career Shift and Life Cycles (6:16)
- 2.8 Curating Your Life and Business (1:46)
How "Visioning Your Mosaic Art Business" came to be..
Inspired by in-person weekend seminars I'd offered for over fifteen years about the Business of Mosaics, in 2021 I greatly expanded the content and created a new, in-depth, online Business of Mosaics Masterclass.
This one-of-a-kind professional development course focuses on the multiple facets of launching, managing and growing a successful mosaic business… while maintaining a mindful work-life balance.
After launching the Business of Mosaics course I learned that many of my students really desired the chance to focus on the in-depth analysis that makes up the initial modules of the Masterclass.
By popular demand, I'm thrilled to offer "Visioning Your Mosaic Art Business" (content from the Business of Mosaics Masterclass) as a stand-alone course.
This rich-format course is asynchronous so you can do at your own pace, in your own space.
Discover how to work with your own strengths and wiring to create a business from your mosaic practice that has meaning, and continues to inspire you.
Ready to take the leap?
Investing in your own success can be transformational!
I hope you'll join me!
What you’re doing for this industry is unprecedented.
- Lillian Sizemore, Mosaic Artist and Scholar
This is the best online class I have ever taken!
- Kathy S, Course Graduate
This is not just another business course. It’s specific to mosaic artists and artisans.
It guides one to explore what they really want their business to BE - specific to their desires and needs, and what will work for YOU.
- Christy P, Course Graduate
The visioning did help me to consider more thoroughly what I want out of an art business, and how to recognize in myself and my life what I actually want.
-Kathy S, Course Graduate
As a world-class mosaic artist, humanitarian, savvy business woman and gifted teacher, she shares a lifetime of lessons in a very organized, thoughtful and professional course.
-Katie W, Course Graduate
You were born with potential...
You were born with greatness...
You were born with wings...
Learn to use them and fly.
-Rumi
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About Laurel True
Laurel True is an artist, teacher and advocate of creative expression. Through her studio, True Mosaics Studio, she has specialized in creative placemaking, public art and architectural mosaics for the past 30 years. She has created architectural installations, mosaic murals and sculptural forms for parks, transit systems, streetscapes, hospitals, social and education centers, and commercial and residential spaces across the US and in Haiti, Europe, Mexico, South and Central America and Africa.
She has an active studio practice through which she explores concepts of beauty, identity and perception using juxtapositions of materials and iterative processes.
Laurel has fostered education in the mosaic arts through teaching and speaking around the world. She is Founding Director of Global Mosaic Project, which provides art education and entrepreneurial training to underserved communities in urban and developing areas through socially engaged art. True has trained thousands of students, volunteers, artists, teachers and community members in the creation of over 200 projects globally that contribute to environmental beautification, economic and community development, well-being and social justice.
Laurel apprenticed with artist Isaiah Zagar after receiving a degree in African Studies from University of Wisconsin. She has studied at Studio Arte del Mosaico in Ravenna, Italy; Universite Chiek Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal; Parsons School of Design in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. She participated in/partnered with TEDWomen, International Urban Mosaic Intervention in Chile, International Community Mural Arts Program in Turkey through the US State Department, Partners In Health, Build Health International, and the United Nations. She has self-published two books about her work with communities in Haiti.
With a keen interest in mindfulness practices, mind-body connection, and investing in the success of others, Laurel has helped countless people get in touch with their creativity, launch or strengthen their creative practice, spearhead mosaic projects, and launch their own businesses. She believes that we are all creative being and that creative expression is inextricably linked to well-being.
Laurel teaches workshops online and in person all around the world. She also teaches yearly retreats and training workshops in France and Mexico.