VizThink Austin with Boy Genius Austin Kleon

Written By Sunni Brown

On Feb. 3rd, I held another VizThink Austin community meeting for our ever-growing group of visual thinkers and visual learners. The rare and brilliant bird Austin Kleon hosted, taking the group on a comedic and informative journey about visual thinking for writers. A powerful topic considering that few people are aware of the symbiotic relationship between words and pictures. (Don’t let the blinking cursor get you!) Austin has attended virtually every VizThink session since the beginning, so it was high time he hosted one himself. He’s a natural visual communicator as well as a writer and you’ll see how he combines the two in his forthcoming book with Harper Collins, Newspaper Blackout Poems. And, since I know people love free content, you can also see video modules from the session itself. Attendance was impressive considering the dangerous….um…drizzle (Austinites panic when driving in the rain) and it was another excellent evening with our impressive community of minds. So if you’re reading this post and you want to join the VizThink entourage, contact me. I am always open to another inquiring mind.

Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown is a social entrepreneur, best-selling author, keynote speaker, expert meeting facilitator, Deep Self Designer™ and dedicated Soto Zen student. She recently founded The Center for Deep Self Design in Austin, TX and was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. Her team has facilitated hundreds of group experiences and she has delivered countless interactive "playnotes" in environments around the world. She's the author of Gamestorming and The Doodle Revolution and a forthcoming book that teaches Deep Self Design™, a visual-thinking method that uses inner science to dissolve personal obstacles. Her TED Talk on doodling has drawn more than 1.5 million views on TED.com and her work has been featured in every major U.S. publication including The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, WIRED, and Entrepreneur, as well as being featured twice on CBS Sunday Morning and recently on The TODAY Show. Sunni has trained for thousands of hours in za-zen, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Right Use of Power, and two mind-body practices called Hakomi and Internal Family Systems. She is committed to helping human beings unlock their potential and awaken their hearts and minds.

https://www.deepselfdesign.com
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