VISIONARY MENTOR
SPEAKER | AUTHOR
SHAMANIC LIFE & BUSINESS COACH |
PSYCHEDELIC ADVOCATE
Anchor your inner visions into reality. Not just for you, but for humanity.
Laura Dawn's Bio
Psychedelic advocate, author and international speaker, Laura Dawn has been leading transformational retreats for 10 years, inspiring people to wake up to greater possibility in their lives.
Through her retreats and online programs, Laura Dawn teaches people how to intentionally explore psychedelics and sacred plant medicines as powerful visionary tools for growth, transformation and creative manifestation, and offers a blueprint for transmuting that wisdom into the fabric of your everyday life.
Laura Dawn is currently pursuing a Masters in Science, in the Creativity Studies and Change Leadership program at SUNY, and is focusing on studying the intersection and overlap between psychedelics and creative problem solving. Laura Dawn teaches business leaders how to mindfully work with psychedelics and sacred plant medicines with the intention of finding solutions to some of the greatest challenges we face.
She is passionate about teaching people how to consciously cultivate a microdosing practice, within the framework of a daily morning ritual, to inspire you to open your creative channel, up-level daily habits, re-wire old beliefs, and tap into flow states so you can unlock your creative potential.
She weaves together Eastern philosophy with the latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychedelic studies and quantum physics to inspire you how to walk the path of the creative visionary bodhisattva, radically expand what you believe is possible and anchor your inner visions into reality.
A life-long creative entrepreneur, Laura Dawn grew her first online brand to 1.5M people on Facebook, sold it for 6-figures, wrote 2 published books, built a volcanic hot spring retreat center from scratch on the Big Island of Hawaii, and built an annual 6-figure retreat business — all using the visionary techniques and practices she teaches.
Who I work with
I work with change-makers, entrepreneurs, visionaries, innovators, creators & creatives in the plant medicine community. People who have the Bodhisattva spirit, and who actively want to co-create a more harmonious future.
I work with people who want to expand what they believe is possible to create, and want to work with sacred plant medicines as powerful visionary tools to catalyze the healing and awakening of humanity.
Collectively, we can hold a vision of a better future and take the steps to transmute that vision into reality.
Crisis Can Be the Catalyst for Transformation
These are challenging times. It feels like life as we knew it changed overnight when COVID-19 swept the world.
I personally know what this feels like to have the rug pulled out from under me. I’d like to share this story with you and what I learned through that experience, as well as what ayahuasca has taught me about navigating through crisis situations.
TRUST IN THE GREAT UNKNOWN
We built our dream: a hot spring retreat center on the Big Island of Hawaii, and then in an instant, the volcanic eruption changed life as we knew it, forever.
Laura Dawn's Philosophy & Message
With the current state of the planet, it’s up to each of us to let go of our limiting beliefs, hold an inner vision of a more harmonious future, and have the courage to transmute that vision into reality.
And it’s no coincidence that as we face global crisis on multiple fronts, and unprecedented change, that psychedelics and sacred plant medicines are exploding in interest.
Not surprisingly, these powerful substances are teaching us exactly what we need to learn, in order to more effectively navigate this time of drastic change.
Most Notably, Psychedelics &
Sacred Plant Medicines Are Teaching Us:
- How to foster greater emotional resilience;
- The mental toolsets for creative thinking: they enhance cognitive flexibility, lateral thinking, and boost our imaginations;
- How to find an inner sense of stability amongst so much change;
- How to become more compassionate leaders;
- How to face our fear of death and dying;
- How to embody a more connected perspective: our inherent connection to each other, ourselves and the earth.
favorite sayings
“The power to create starts in your mind,
led by the resonant frequency in your heart.
When you get your mind and heart into alignment...magic happens"
where the magic happens
Weaving Together Psychedelics with
- Creativity research
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Quantum physics
- Tibetan Buddhism and indigenous wisdom
- Evolutionary biology
- Peak performance/bio hacking
- Positive Psychology
- Microdosing
- Flow states
- Resilience training
Ongoing inquiry
The Central Questions that Influence My Work
Can psychedelics and sacred plant medicines teach us how to navigate through this time of crisis with not only more resilience and compassion, but also more creativity and innovation? Can they help us unlock the key towards enhanced cognitive flexibility, and inspire us to think outside of the box about the challenges we face both individually and collectively? Can sacred plant medicines teach us how to embody the visionaries we need to become to vision a more connected, harmonious way of living on this planet?
Getting to Know Me
going deeper: getting personal
- I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, by two entrepreneurs and have been an entrepreneur my entire life. I pitched my first business idea when I was about 8 years old at our weekly Sunday night family dinner.
- I consider my father to be a visionary. I watched him talk about an idea, and then manifest it into reality. He planted the belief in me that if I could see it in my mind, I could make it a reality. This is the primary lens that has colored my reality: implementing ideas into action.
- My other earliest psychological imprinting came from training in sports, including gymnastics, high jump, diving and then my first team sport: waterpolo.
- I am a huge believer that school is largely an inefficient waste of time. I stopped going to high school in grade 8 and got a tutor. I discovered that I could cover five days of class in one hour a week.
- Despite my feeling around school, I still went to business school and studied finance, marketing and entrepreneurship.
- I later studied holistic nutrition and launched a successful health and wellness online brand.
- I have a deep love and passion for personally-directed learning.
- After University, I hit a rock bottom struggling with depression, so I gave away everything I owned, packed a backpack and left — and never turned back.
- I had her first psychedelic journey with psilocybin when I was about 15.
- I’ve been working with psychedelics for over two decades and started intuitively microdosing for almost as long.
- Ayahuasca has been my primary plant teacher for over a decade.
- Despite the take-over of the medical model of working with psychedelics, I still believe there can be a time and place for safe, recreational use of psychedelics.
- The majority of my time is now dedicated to speaking, writing and teaching.
WORK WITH ME
LAUNCH YOUR VISION
what inner vision are you ready to transmute into reality?
Launching a new vision can feel overwhelming, trust me I totally get it. On this page, you’ll find all the support you need to get your big ideas, off the ground.
TESTIMONIALS FROM MY AMAZING TRIBE
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I wouldn't be where I am without Laura Dawn's visionary coaching support
I was a hot mess when I had my first consult with Laura Dawn. I didn’t have a clear direction, brand or even bottom line, though I had a big mission and some lofty goals. LD was able to distill my chaos and create clarity. She was able to create a step by step pathway to where I am now. Laura was the MVP on my team, I seriously could not have gotten through this past year without her loving and direct support. She dialed in my brand aesthetics in a major way, I have a clear direction, a stunning website, a consistent idea of my bottom line and so many ninja skills that she infused into me. Laura Dawn would not let me settle for anything other the my greatness. She knew just the right ways to push and the right ways to surrender and allow me to figure it out. I love Laura so much! Through this process, she has become a dear friend. She is truly the most multi-faceted bad ass ninja I have worked with!