Would you like to deepen or establish your creative practice?
Need advice on a specific project?
Ready to channel all that inspiration into something awesome?
Now you can book a Coaching Session with me for Professional or Personal Creative Development.
Many of you have reached out to ask if I am available for one-on-one coaching and project consultation, and the answer is YES. I'm happy to introduce a new, streamlined way to book virtual coaching sessions with me. Now you can easily sign up for single sessions and multiple-session coaching packages.
If we haven't met yet, check out my complete bio at the end of this page.
How Does "Creative Coaching with Laurel" Work?
Here are some of the details:
Signing up:
Each month I am offering a limited number of 1-hour coaching sessions. Sessions can be purchased individually or as a package of four (a savings of over $100).
Getting started:
Once you sign up and purchase your session(s), you'll be invited to complete an intake form that will help us create a plan to be most productive with our time together.
Next, we'll connect through email to schedule your coaching session(s). Each focused, one-on-one session will take place on video call (Zoom) or by phone.
What to expect from a coaching session:
While every coaching session is unique, what is common is that we'll spend our time together focused on what you most hope to learn or achieve. Sessions start by outlining goals and a strategy so that you get the most out of your session(s).
Coaching with me is a collaborative and generative process with lots of exchange, professional and personal insights from over 25 years of coaching and teaching, and likely a bit of laughter as well. You’ll come away with insights, new ideas and wisdom to move ahead with your process or project.
I believe that we are all creative beings and that creativity is an innate part of our human makeup.
As a lifelong artist I have experienced firsthand the joys and lessons that come from cultivating a regular creative practice. It is my belief that our creative practice is essential for the health of our body/mind/spirit and inextricably linked to our well-being. And it's essential that our practice be not only be aligned with who we are today, but that it is flexible and evolving ... growing and changing with us as we become more conscious of the connectivity, support and alignment our practice offers.
In my 30 years as a professional artist specializing in architectural mosaics, mosaic mural making and public art, I have become laser focused on best technical practices. I have offered technical training, teacher training and taught mosaic workshops around the world.
My personal creative practice is multidisciplinary and encompasses a wide variety of media and techniques. I consider my practice exploratory and experimental and believe my philosophy, experience and approach lend themselves to helping people foster their own creative journey in any media.
-Laurel True
Whether you are interested in expanding your knowledge within the mosaic arts or want to express your creative voice, one-on-one coaching can help unlock your own creative potential.
Here are some topics we can explore together through your personalized coaching session(s):
Conscious Creativity
- Developing a mindful creative practice
- Aligning personal and creative goals
- Finding your creative voice
- Working towards creative self-actualization
- Working through creative blocks
- Tapping into your creative mojo
- Developing a regular creative practice
Architectural and
Commissioned Work
- Navigating commissioned work
- Creating attractive proposals
- Developing working systems
- Working with clients, architects and other professionals
- Pricing and workflow
- Technical best practices for execution
Community Projects
- Planning, organizing and project facilitation
- Design consultation
- Creating timelines and structures
- Working with community
- Best practices technical approach
- Choosing the best method of execution
Public Art
- Assessing RFQs and calls for entry
- Understanding the system
- Applying for public projects
- Creating successful presentations
- Understanding budgets
- Designing for best ROI
Business of Mosaics
- Launching and growing your mosaic business
- Aligning your personal and professional goals
- Portfolio development
- Manifesting the work you want
- Specialization
- Self-promotion, marketing and pricing your work
- Maintaining work-life balance
Your Creative Journey
- Custom coaching for your unique creative journey
- A combination of several tracks
- Coaching through personal projects
- Nuts and bolts mosaic making
- A mash-up of whatever you need
Below, you can learn more about how past coaching clients have benefited from one-on-one coaching to help as they navigate personal or professional projects or even re-connect with their creative spark and deepen their own creative practice.
Coaching through a Community Project
Laurel True has helped me, and the Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation, in every step of the way towards making a community mosaic mural that will be installed in a local park. She has been indispensable in every aspect of the project, from what tools and materials to purchase, to how to handle mosaic making community workshops with attendants of different abilities. For instance, she told me that to make every participant feel successful I should offer a variety of templates, from simple water drops to complex birds or mammals. I got her coaching package a year ago and can say that it has been the best money spent in all of this project. Laurel True has had so much experience with mosaics through decades of work that there was no question she could not help me with!
Thank you Laurel!
-Elizabeth G.
(pictured - Laurel True with students at a 2018 mosaic mural making workshop.)
Coaching to build a Creative Practice
Coaching with Laurel has been very affirming and positive. She shares her wisdom generously and honestly, and attentively listens and supports.
As I seek to grow in my journey as an artist, I find that she helps me through questions, resources and sharing her experiences and perspective. I look forward to continuing work with her.
-Katie W.
(Pictured: Nature collage and painting, Laurel True 2020.)
Is coaching right for you?
Coaching may benefit you greatly if you are ready to…
- Explore your own unique creative path
- Connect with your creative voice
- Follow your inner creative compass
- Work through creative blocks with humor and curiosity
- Bring more mindfulness into your creative practice
- Gain the confidence and knowledge required to execute professional mosaic projects
- Navigate an architectural or community-based mosaic project
- Launch into commissioned mosaic work
- Receive actionable advice on how to take your mosaic business to the next level
Ready to explore? Jump in!
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.
True co-founded the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, California and 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.
True 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, UNOPS, Jacmel Mozaik Haiti and recently published her first book.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I schedule my appointment?
Upon purchasing coaching, you'll receive further instructions on how to book a time for your appointment.
Can I purchase coaching more than once?
Absolutely! If you find yourself in need of coaching more than once, simply purchase the coaching again, or consider purchasing a package of 4 sessions with Laurel.
I purchased a coaching package.
Is there a time limit for booking/completing my sessions?
Whether you purchased 1 session or four, you have up to one year from date of purchase to schedule and complete your coaching session(s).