Monica Moran is a creative workshop instructor, book binder, collage, mixed media artist, on-line shop-keeper, and blogger at The Creative Beast. She has studied fashion design, fine art, and design at Los Angeles Trade Technical College and Los Angeles Valley College, achieving an associate of arts degree. Her personal mission is to help adults tap into their innate creativity by providing workshops that cultivate and reconnect with this impulse. Moran's "Coloring for Adults" workshop provides stress relief and relaxation in a calm and restorative environment, all while tapping into the Creative Instinct. In addition to being a creative workshop instructor, she is also interested in art education and quotes Abraham Maslov in her work.