ENVISION, an online visual thinking retreat — envision what's possible with paper and pen
We go live November 13-15
Woman with her head in her hand, storm clouds and scribbled arrows bursting from her head — the overwhelm of a crowded brain.

Get out of your head for 3 days.

ENVISION is an online weekend retreat for every overthinker and deep feeler who needs a break from the noise.


Your brain is a wild, wonderful place.
It's also crowded.

Everything up there is invisible, tangled, and moving too fast to catch. So you loop, you forget, you haul the same three worries around all week like rocks in your pocket. Cue the inner critic ready to lecture you.

The antidote is embarrassingly simple:

Use paper and pen to get out of your head and into your hands.


Paper holds still. Capture your thoughts, feelings and ideas, and you can see them, touch them, push them around until they're sorted.

November 13–15, that's exactly what we'll do together.
an orange pen on paper — the simple analog tools of visual thinking

This is visual thinking.

Not capital-A Art, or magic a lucky few are born with. It's a set of tools. All completely learnable.

I'd love to teach you. 

I'm Brandy Agerbeck.

This fall marks 30 years helping people think on paper. First as a graphic facilitator, in the room for thousands of hard conversations. Later, the author of two books on visual thinking, and the teacher behind the Agerbeck Method.

  • ENVISION is not a jam-packed workshop.

    I love to teach, but I'm not a guru handing down answers.

  • ENVISION is a retreat.

    Three unhurried days of hands-on tools to find your own answers.

You'll picture what's possible for YOU: in your life, in your work, in the year ahead.

In your own visual voice. Messy and yours and exactly enough.

Come as you are.
Leave even more you.

Yes, I want out of my head for 3 days

These three days are for you if: 

You're a lifelong learner, natural explainer, and unrepentant know-it-all.
When your fast brain is harnessed, you are unstoppable. Otherwise, it's a maddening wind-up toy between your ears.
When the conversation gets tangled, you grab the marker to help everyone understand. Suddenly the whole room's on the same page.
Your message is rich and clear in your head. But words flatten it. Draw it out and the meaning lands.
You're a dot-connector and diagram-drawer. Where other people see a list, you see a web.
You keep half your brain on the page. You already know why the rest of us come back to ENVISION.

Still not sure? Here's your sign. Er, 17 of 'em.

 

Dabbler, doer, or devotee — every experience level is welcome, and there's a seat with your name on it.

Sounds like my people. Let me register.

 As a Systems Engineer and Scrum Master, I’ve found ENVISION personally and professionally enriching.

Seeing ways in which other people apply visual thinking across disciplines and career paths was just one rewarding aspect of the conference.

Donna House Lohmeier

The better you get at drawing out your thoughts, the better you get at thinking, period.

Drawing is writing with more choices.

You want to capture a point  ⚫

Yes, you can write it out, like you always have. But drawing asks you to ask yourself: 

How do I distill
my point?
Is it a specific
color?
What size
is it?
Does it have a
certain shape?
How does this point connect
to other ones on the page?

These extra choices engage a fast brain, fostering focus. Getting your feelings out is regulation. Mapping a big project is organization. Using your hands to do it strengthens memory.

Visual thinking is executive function support in your hands.

You grow, too. When you draw out your thoughts, feelings, and ideas, there's a double payoff: understanding and agency.

Your patterns, your stuck spots, what you actually believe, reflected back on paper.

Yes. That's when you stopped drawing.

Start again today, using the simplest elements: words, lines, shapes. Those "extra choices" that might feel daunting? I broke them all down in a book and a comprehensive course.

You'll get a hands-on taste at ENVISION. Learnable, all of it. I'll show you.

ENVISION meets you wherever you are:

Brand New?

You'll be welcomed by this kind community and your head know-it-all, Brandy.

Ready to uplevel?

You'll see your current skills and your next possibilities clearly.

Been at it for years?

Recharge, bust through ruts, push past a plateau.
Man pointing up at a sky of gold stars — a high achiever tracking his accomplishments
Let's get learning. Take me to registration.
The world is loud, fast, and allergic to nuance. Endless feeds, hot takes, breaking news, seventeen open tabs. Or seventy.

Built for distraction. Fracking our minds.

And you've seen online events that are just more of the same: 

  • Talking heads and wall-to-wall opinions to absorb.


  • A hype machine pumping you full of platitudes.



  • Community love-bombing that leaves you lonely on Monday.

  • A little insight dangled, then the hard sell for the mastermind.

This isn't that.

ENVISION is a quiet, three-day pause away from it all. Time and space to hear yourself think.


What's truly important — your work, your people, the choices in front of you — is complex.
I won't sell you false certainty. I'll hand you something more useful:
  • Big-picture models to reorient by when you're lost.

  • Hands-on tools to quiet the noise and draw out your own answers.

  • Camaraderie among peers, zero social pressure or groupthink.

  • A real retreat, a complete experience. 


Spoiler alert: Day 2 ends with an invite to keep learning together in Agerbeck Method Studio. Join or not, the whole weekend is yours.

What stays with you after ENVISION —

A blank page becomes your anytime, anywhere sanctuary.

Drawing makes the intangible tangible.

You're not making problems pretty. You're making messy drawings that get what matters into the open.

Scratch out what has to go. Circle what lights you up. Draw a line and make the connection.

The back of an envelope, a pen, and a few minutes are enough to tackle whatever life throws at you.

Give me a weekend to put real visual tools in your hands. What you see and shape with them is yours.

Give me a weekend of tools. Sign me up.

I still find myself returning to the messages I wrote for myself during ENVISION when I need a confidence boost. It is the gift that keeps giving!

Katrina Swanton

Sure, we can untangle Big Life Choices.

But drawing isn't always so serious. 

The instant exhale of unloading everything in your brain out on paper.
A stupid-simple sketch that finally makes a plan make sense.
A page of nonsense that leaves you a little lighter.
An excuse to uncap every color of gel pen.

The simplest pleasure there is: making a mark and seeing what shows up.

Join me in the three-day sandbox that starts with a scribble. 

Catch the habit and these all add up — small moments of getting out of your head and discovering something you didn't know you knew. Over the weekend and long after we log off.

Our Zoom room is delightful.

I know, I know. Most Zoom rooms blow.

But they aren't led by a 30-year facilitation veteran who knows that it's not the tech, it's how we use it.

Cameras on.
We are all in this together. Presence, not performance. Seeing another person nod when you share matters.
Introverts rejoice!
No forced fun. Share as much or as little as you want in the chat. We skip the small talk and get straight to the good stuff. 
Our Neurodiverse-iverse
Fast brains, deep feelers, burnt-out 'gifted kids,' and sensory strugglers are the norm here, not the exception.
We are worldwide.
Sadly, I can't bend time zones, but you can log in from anywhere. I've taught folks from 40+ countries.
Comfort required.
Pajama-level dress code.
Pets welcomed.
Snacks encouraged.
A real exhale.
I want in on this Zoom room. Let me register.

Still uncertain what ENVISION is really like?
Wondering what will happen?

I get it. It's an experience that makes perfect sense in the room, but still tough to describe from the outside.

But uncertainty and wonder are two different things:

Uncertainty
Low-grade dread that's been at our heels for years, the kind that keeps us guarded and hunkered down. The itchiness of a bad rash. 
Wonder
Open, curious, spacious state of not knowing tilted toward what's possible. Feels like a good back scratch for the mind. 

None of us knows exactly what's next.

But recharged, with a clear sense of who you are and what matters, and simple tools in your hands, you draw your own path forward.

Even better, doing all that in good company. A room full of curious, kind, pen-in-hand people wondering right alongside you.

This is your weekend to: 

Hit pause on the daily grind

Carve out time for curiosity

Go on mental adventures

Rekindle your vision

Bust your ruts!

Ponder possibilities

Gain fresh perspectives

Chart your potential course

We've got a spot for you, Wunderkind.

"Y'all, I just finished one of the most invigorating, inspiring, informative weekends of my adult life"

Hayley Croom

Your Ticket includes:

  • Three live days with Brandy Agerbeck and your kind of minds, November 13–15.
  • A printable workbook to draw your way through the weekend.
  • A two-week guest pass to our ENVISION space in Agerbeck Method Studio (Nov 6–20). Keep learning together long after we log off.

The sooner you say yes, the less you pay:

Friends + Family Ticket

$297 Regular ticket
$97 - Save $200

Friends + Family rate ends October 2, 2026

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Early Bird Ticket

$297 Regular ticket
$197 - Save $100

Early Bird rate ends 
October 16, 2026

Regular Ticket

$297 Regular ticket

General rate ends 
November 6, 2026

Last-Minute Ticket

$397 General ticket
Includes event recordings

All registration ends
November 15, 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

I'm trying to get ENVISION on my schedule. What are the hours each day? 

All times throughout the communications and the event will be Chicago time (GMT-5), where Brandy is.

Day 1
Friday, Nov 13

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Day 2
Saturday, Nov 14

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Day 3
Sunday, Nov 15

9:00 am to 2:00 pm

There is a 40-minute meal break each day, and two 20-minute breaks. Times may wiggle a little over the day, but I respect your time and energy.

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