Founder of Excited about Aging and the developer of Creativity
Toolbox for Seniors, Lian is an artist, teacher, and life-long learner.
A graduate of the school of Visual Arts in NY, Lian has had a
dynamic career spanning 25 years as an artist, writer, business
consultant, and a founding vice president of Gyrotron Technologies Inc, spending 10 years bringing cutting edge science to the world of industry. Really, whether you introduce new ideas with brushes and paint or a computer mouse, develop concepts for helping others understand complex data, or create innovative ways to manage people and resources, it is all creativity.
Creativity Toolbox came about through Lian’s work as a Hospice volunteer and long standing interest in understanding and enriching the third stage of life. This led to working directly with seniors and creating the Creative Mind Workshops, which use techniques like collage, group story and photographs to allow seniors of any capacity to express themselves through the extraordinary door of the imagination. Elder Wisdom councils are under development, giving rise to the opportunity of listening to the great wisdom all people seem to possess inside themselves.
Much Research supports the brilliant effect creativity has on the aging brain, solidifying the value of this work. Lian has moved to the next level with her Excited about Aging web-hub, where provocative and insightful interviews with senior artists and athletes are showing other seniors possible ways of expanding their minds and opening their hearts to the power of aging as an adventure. See more here: Excited about Aging.
 | ||||||
About the developer
Who is Lian Sawires and where did CTBX come from?
