Author Comes to Orcas for Book Signing and Visual Goal Setting Workshop

Patti Dobrowolski, comic, business consultant, speaker and author

Book signing Friday, March 30, 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Darvill’s Bookstore
“Lunch & Learn” Workshop March 31 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Chilada’s Restaurant

The ability to embrace change is considered to be among the top survival skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. So it is now more important than ever for young and old alike to be as resilient and adaptable as chameleons. That said, statistics show that only 1 in 10 individuals have the tools to empower themselves and create—not just react to—change.

In  Drawing Solutions: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life, business consultant Patti Dobrowolski shows readers how to actualize the transformations they desire through a mapping process that will turn their dreams into reality.

This Seattle-based author and business consultant  comes to Orcas Island for two events next weekend to introduce readers to her work and book.

Patti Dobrowolski is a nationally acclaimed comic actor, high-performance business consultant, speaker and the author of Drawing Solutions: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life. She consults one-on-one with individuals to help them unleash their creative genius. She also works with teams at a number of leading Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Pepsico and FedEx, to help them create more effective workplace strategies.

Ms. Dobrowolski received her Master’s degree in psychology with an emphasis on drama therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is currently a member of the National Speaker’s Association and was a TEDx Rainer speaker in 2011. She won the “Woman of Achievement Award” from the Association of Women in Communications in 2004 and was a recipient of the “Make Mine a Million $ Business Award” in 2010.

On Friday March, 30, she will sign her book at Darvill’s Bookstore in Eastsound from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

On Saturday, March 31, Chilada’s Restaurant in Eastsound will host the Lunch & Learn” workshop from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This workshop is held in conjunctions with Process Experts LLC and Vision2Reality.

Cost for the Saturday workshop is $45 includes the workshop, book and lunch. Space is limited and participants must pre-register by calling Gretchen Krampf at 360-317-8220

About Drawing Solutions: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life
Drawing Solutions is divided into four parts. The author begins with “Why Mapping Works: Visual Images and Change,” which provides readers with basic information about how the brain functions and why visual images are an important part of goal-setting success. In part two, Ms. Dobrowolski guides readers through “The Mapping Process: Current Reality Becomes Desired New Reality,” as she helps individuals think beyond where they are today. She urges them to create a list of three bold steps to help move them in a new direction. The third section, “Working with Visual Maps: What to Expect Along the Way,” offers readers insights into working through their own fears as well as handling possible critical reactions from others. The last section of the book, “A Quick Guide to Mapping,” recaps the process and is one that readers will want to return to again and again.

Drawing Solutions is also filled with inspiring stories of personal and client experiences that will convince readers that they don’t have to be an artist or know how to draw to use these tools. Ms. Dobrowolski’s fun, step-by-step methods require only that individuals be willing to honestly access where they are in life and imagine where they want to be in one year’s time.

An inspiring read from the first page to the last, Drawing Solutionse will help readers picture where they are and envision where they want to be in one year’s (calendar year, fiscal year, school year) time.

(To see Dobrowolski’s 10 minute TEDxRanier presentation on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESeeaFDVSw or at her website,  www.upyourcreativegenius.com)