Laurie is passionate about the wellbeing of people and planet. She is a freelance facilitator and artist who runs a croft with her partner on the beautiful Isle of Eigg.

Retreat facilitation: She is a trained coach (Level 5 -Active Health Group) and wilderness guide (The School of Lost Borders) has a Level 3 Certificate in Advanced Wilderness Therapeutic Practice (EqE outdoors), learning to integrate soft reflective practices with wilderness craft. She has experience working with adults and children, including those with multiple needs, in a variety of outdoor settings from community gardens to residential wilderness camps. She has two years of experience organising and guiding nature connection retreats as part of the Wild Well Beings programme, with Naomi Wilkinson.

Creative practice: Her personal creative expression includes natural pigments and printmaking, connecting her to place and plants. She sells some of her work in the Isle of Eigg craft shop. She also recently co-created book Wilder Journeys with author and adventurer, Miriam Lancewood, working with different authors to create an inspiring collection of stories about adventure and nature connection.

Foraging: Laurie has a PhD from Cardiff University, having researched foraging and conservation in the UK, discussing how foraging, as an ethos, can encourage people to see themselves as part of a multi-species collective. Foraging makes its way into some of these retreats and into her artistic practice.