In 2007, Sun founded one of the country’s first visual-thinking consultancies, Sunni Brown Ink, and after years of advocating for multi-sensory learning, she 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 TED talk has over 1.6 million views and her work on visual thinking 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 on The TODAY Show. She was recruited by the former CEO of MURAL to be their first and only Innovator-in-Residence and her globally-beloved books—Gamestorming 2.0 (second edition just published!) and The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently—have been translated into 30 languages and counting. She’s one of the educators widely credited with the rise of visual thinking as a tool for deeper inquiry, and after leading and inspiring millions of learners, she deepened her offering and founded the Center for Deep Self Design (CDSD), which hosts experiences with exceptional international teachers and facilitators, and teaches an in-house method of inner science based on 20 years of collaboration with therapists, clinicians, and spiritual teachers (soon to be featured in an upcoming book).

WHAT QUALIFIES SUN TO TEACH INNER SCIENCE

• rigorously trained in the inner sciences for 20 years with some of the most respected teachers in the U.S.

• designed multiple systems of experiential learning including #Gamestorming, #Infodoodling and #DeepSelfDesign®

• highly-seasoned visual facilitator, having led hundreds of group experiences with participant sizes ranging from 5 - 5000

• completion of 35 intensives, workshops, and trainings in Internal Family Systems (IFS) (bio here), serving as Program Assistant 2x, once for IFS Founder Dick Schwartz

• over 10k hours of mind-training and practice-realization via za-zen (objectless meditation)

• demonstrated personal post-traumatic growth and resilience in significant ways, defying clinical odds of thriving

• authentic presence who encourages questions and does not profess to have all the answers

Sun is a devout student of a relational American Zen tradition (an innovative branch of Sōtō that integrates Western psychology) and is the highest-level practitioner of a revolutionary, evidence-based therapy called Internal Family Systems, developed by one of her mentors, Dr. Richard Schwartz, for whom she served as Program Assistant for in IFS Level 3.