Life and work are complex.
Your thinking tools should match.
You wrestle with sophisticated ideas and complex projects daily.
But watch your best insights get dismissed because people can't follow your Big Picture thinking.
Your fast, brilliant brain is crowded with more thoughts, feelings, and ideas than you can possibly sort out.
The same strength that fuels your brilliance also fuels your overwhelm.
In classes and meetings, critical information slips away before you can capture it.
Later you're scrambling to piece together what actually mattered.
You need a way to see your thinking, shape it, and work with it.
That's what visual thinking does.
It makes the invisible visible and the complex clear.
It gets your thoughts sorted out—finally.
The Agerbeck Method makes visual thinking your anytime, anywhere, lifelong skill.
This isn't a collection of quick tips, scattered tricks, or empty 'inspo' that looks great but doesn't change how you work.
It is a complete curriculum that teaches you all 24 idea shapers — the concrete techniques that give you the tools to reduce overwhelm and create clarity at your fingertips.
Here's what you get:
This isn't just learning to draw.
This is:
- Learning to draw out what you are carrying around in your busy, noisy brain. You can get grounded with just paper and pen.
- Draw together all of your thoughts and ideas truly organizing them.
- Draw in your colleagues' and audiences' attention making your insights clear.
- Giving you a lifetime system to draw from to listen more deeply, and make more meaning of what you see and hear.
The Agerbeck Method has been taken by 400+ learners in 40+ countries.
It works because it's comprehensive, structured, and designed for real humans with busy lives.
A master of teaching both big -picture context and concrete techniques, Brandy sets you up for success with:
1 | A focus on visual THINKING.
You're not learning to decorate ideas. You're learning to shape them.
2 | A clear, comprehensive system
Every lesson builds on the last. Just press play on the next video. No hunting, no overwhelm, no wasted time.
3 | Brandy beside you as your guide
25+ years of expertise, zero BS, 100% respect for your intelligence.
Success Factor 1:
We focus on visual THINKING.
Many discover visual thinking as an escape from walls of text. So they swing the pendulum all the way to iconography—learning to draw lightbulbs for "ideas" and gears for "work."
At worst, you're decorating your page, while missing crucial content. At best, you're leaving powerful tools unused.
Visual thinking rejects black-and-white, this-or-that approach.
You are not right-brained or left-brained. Not verbal or visual. You are always an AND.
It's not words or images. Words and icons — along with scale, color, lines, spacing — all work together to shape your thinking.
Many places teach VISUAL thinking.
Brandy Agerbeck teaches you visual THINKING.
Visual thinking captures how different pieces fit together. As a visual thinker, you access a full toolbox of techniques to gain deeper understanding of yourself, your work, and the people you work with.
The Agerbeck Method teaches you the tools to engage and integrate your whole self:
Lesson 1 is not "square 1."
You enter with your unique experiences, goals, strengths, and weaknesses.
Process and practice over perfectionism and product.
This is space to be the messy, ever-growing human you are.
We skip "good/bad" and "pretty/ugly"
Brandy teaches which visual choices are more effective or less effective to reach your chosen goal.
What you gain:
- Integrating your thinking, feeling, observation, and intuition through one set of tools
- You express ideas clearly through words, lines, and shapes
- You craft visuals with purpose and impact
- Your inner visual voice becomes stronger than your inner critic
What you don't need:
- Drawing experience or creative talent
- Pressure to create elaborate drawings
- Doodling—you're building thinking tools, not decoration
Every concrete technique you learn is “topic agnostic."
Every idea shaper works equally well for a super-thinky task or a deeply-feeling one.
You may be investing in this course for one specific objective.
As you grow, you'll discover dozens more ways to apply these techniques—improving all areas of your life and the lives of those around you.
At right: The icons of all 24 idea shapers
Success Factor 2:
A crystal clear path through a complete system.
Nine modules covering all
nine elements of visual thinking.
What this means for you:
- Everything you need in one course
- Clear progression with satisfying structure
- Most effective use of your time and energy
What you avoid:
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YouTube rabbit holes that kidnap your focus
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Conflicting advice from different sources
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Distraction, confusion, and energy squandered
What can I say to someone who literally changed my life!
I started in Sept 23, 2018 and ended today February 11, 2019.
I feel the shift I was hoping for, which was to broaden my view of visual thinking beyond imagery = word or phrase to an overall composition.
I now connect the dots with visual thinking with my interest and work in art in that I see in shapes, values, and layers. Hooray.
It still feels like I'm in an infant stage of this but the vision of what I want my visuals to look like is more clear. The practice builders and lectures gave me new ways to draw and that has shifted my work.
I'm a little sad to lose the structure this program has provided but at the same am much more confident in my ability to take and finish online courses.
Paula Kehoe
Graphic Recorder and Facilitator
United States
Success Factor 3:
Brandy beside you as your guide.
Learn from someone who's gone the distance.
Brandy Agerbeck has spent 25+ years developing visual thinking as both a sophisticated practice and a teachable skill. Unlike courses where you waste time and money on instructors barely ahead of you, Brandy brings decades of deep expertise.
Her ability to break down complex topics into learnable pieces is exceptional.
You get Brandy's complete and comprehensive system. While you can go deeper by becoming a Studio member, nothing is held back in the core course.
Brandy is a leading international expert—and also a gloriously imperfect human. Her style is approachable and conversational. She leads by example, embodying this practice in every video lesson.
No hype, hustle, pressure, or unrealistic promises.
Brandy packed her namesake course with all the insights and skill-building to make you your own visual thinking master.
You'll leave with all 24 Idea Shapers at your fingertips and the confidence to use them.
Making meaning for myself and others
Although it took me more than 87 days to get here --
The feeling of being right where I need to be and being happy, satisfied and proud cannot really be expressed in words.
I am more confident and I am actively using visual thinking in my daily life, consciously! With the goal of making meaning for myself and others.
My progress is most visible in the ease and naturality I pick up my pens and markers and start using them, even for note-taking. And in making choices up-front (which I never did before!).
Andrea Popa
Trainer, Facilitator, Project Manager, Researcher
Romania
Success Factor 4 (Optional):
Become a Studio Mate.
Add one year of Studio membership for year-long community and Brandy's ongoing support.
The course gives you everything to master visual thinking solo. Studio membership adds a community of practitioners and direct access to me as you apply these skills to real work.
Explore Studio membership
Begin your path to mastery today.
You will be offered the option of adding Studio membership after your course registration is complete.
How to Master Visual Thinking
Scroll to follow the path of The Agerbeck Method.
Module 1
Start strong with a blank slate
We kick off with CANVAS where you learn:
- Learn the 3 words to shush your inner critic.
- Get all your thinking on the same page
- Tackle your biggest projects by making your thinking modular.
Feb 13
Upon registration for the course, you'll have the option to join the Studio community. our year-long membership that includes a series of live group calls to keep you on track.
February 13 we talk about Module 1: CANVAS.
I really love how structured and clear your teaching is, Brandy.
I also love the clarity of the abstract symbols. A perfect combination between drawing and thinking.
What I love also is the personal empowerment! I hope I can find a good balance between order and disorder, between discipline and joy, between structure and the wide field of creativity.
Claudine Brackhagen
Graphic Recorder
Germany
Module 2
Sort out your thoughts
Next we play with PROXIMITY where you learn:
- Break your linear thinking
- Why 'tidy and orderly' can actually hurt clarity
- Learn the 10 Visual Thinking Cues. They tell your WHAT to draw WHERE.
Mar 13
On our March 13 module call, we'll be talking about PROXIMITY live in the STUDIO.
I really liked the strong focus on the thinking part in this module.
Thank you for that.
Tobias Patzke
Germany
Module 3
Choose the right words to capture your thoughts
We continue with TEXT where you learn:
- Bust binary thinking of words VS images.
- Distilling your language
- Hone handwriting to keep your ideas clear.
Apr 10
As an Agerbeck Method STUDIO mate, you've got a seat on our April 10 call on Module 3: TEXT.
High five Brandy!
Not only enjoying and learning a lot, but using your tools and getting great feedback from my clients.
Thank you so much and congratulations for this amazing course.
Miguel Ángel Díaz Sánchez
Director of New Way Coaching
Spain
Module 4
Unlock your color confidence
Moving into our fourth section, COLOR, you will:
- Explore your own color history
- Learn how hue and value work
- Get the key to combining colors
(Hint: less IS more.)
May 8
Our COLORful live module call in The Agerbeck Method STUDIO will be May 8.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
The COLOR module gave me the theoretical knowledge I needed to feel more confident in making creative decisions that both look good and make meaning.
I have loved every minute of it!
Giséla Lobråten Linde
Finland
Module 5
Simple lines are packed with meaning
LINE, smack dab in the center of the course, teaches you how to:
- Map complex relationships with simple lines
- Create clarity with simple shapes around ideas
- Starting in the center is actually MORE adaptable than starting at the top.
June 5
LINE, Module 5, is our focus on June 5's member module call.
"When a 5 year old watches day 42 with mummy…"
Vy Nguyen
Development Engineer
Sweden
Wow - what an awesome set of lessons. When I saw LINE in the course flow, I thought they would probably be the easiest and possibly the least valuable.
How wrong I was.
Conscious choice of lines can make a big difference to the clarity and understanding of a visual.
I am certainly feeling more confident in my choices when sketchnoting or using visuals in facilitation or coaching settings.
Andi Roberts
Facilitator and Coach
United Kingdom
Module 6
Use size to organize your ideas
In our sixth module, SCALE, we cover:
- Mastering levels of information within your drawing
- When to go BIG and when to go small.
- Starting your thinking with an organized plan.
Hi Brandy, it took me 6 weeks to get from day 59 to day 60. Starting up again after a really busy period at work feels very good. And then... this happy, funny and over the top congratulations video. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm now eager to continue with the last 30 days.
Hip Hip Hurray!
☝️Brandy note: I share this Day 60 quote because my online courses are a guilt-free zone. I designed then to learn at your pace and fit your learning into your life.
If you know deadlines and social support help you succeed, join us in The Agerbeck Method Studio.
July 3
You and your fellow studio mates join me live July 3 to talk about SCALE.
Doing this course has given me structure, focus and purpose in Lockdown - and hope for all the new and exciting ways I’ll be able to put what I’m learning into practice in “the afterwards.”
Thank you Brandy, for making it so much fun - and for making each of these videos something I look forward to.
And for giving us so much rich and deep content that I know I’m going to keep coming back to.
Ludy Roper
United Kingdom
The farther you go in The Agerbeck Method, the more clear, consistent and COHESIVE your work gets.
Module 7
Go from scattered to structured
Next, in Module 6: SHAPE we tackle:
- When to start with structure, and when to let shape emerge
- Creating work where all the pieces fit together.
- Adding visual depth to our work.
July 31
Module 7: SHAPE is the topic of our July 31 live call in The Agerbeck Method STUDIO.
Module 8
Now we talk pictures
In our penultimate module we address IMAGE:
- Put pictorial imagery into the context of our many, many visual and spatial choices.
- Gather your own Visual Vocabulary
- Add life with simple characters to your drawings
Aug 28
We gather live in The Agerbeck Method STUDIO to talk IMAGE on August 28.
Thank you so much for taking on the tough subject of creating my own visual vocabulary.
As we are bombarded with imagery and icons via infographics, media and even live graphic recording, your class has been a breath of fresh air moving away from so much imagery.
I am becoming more and more interested in composition, layout and flow with larger imagery with a sprinkle of Icons to create impact.
Now I have ideas of how I want to change my work.
I again thank you for this.
Paula Kehoe
Graphic Recorder and Facilitator
United States
Module 9
Find your flow
We conclude the course with FLOW:
- Create movement within your drawings
- Develop your unique visual voice
- Keep growing using your lifelong skill of visual thinking
🎓
Sept 25
Get ready to CELEBRATE course completion on September 25, in the studio when we wrap up our 2026 calls with Module 9: FLOW.
Immensely deep and rich, hugely useful both inwards and outwards.
YAY! This course has exceeded my expectations big time - and they were high, otherwise I would not have made the investment.
I feel like I've learnt a new language. Immensely deep and rich, hugely useful both inwards and outwards.
My confidence is a sign of how good this course is - from content and structure to the warm, humorous and peppy tone: "You can do it! Your visual voice matters!"
Thank you so much Brandy - this has been GREAT. ❤️❤️❤️
Giséla Lobråten Linde
Finland
Frequently Asked Questions
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