Artifact / Curriculum / Process / Systems Thinking
This is not a leadership seminar or a branding course or a creativity hack. It is something school never offered you and no job will ever assign you — a dedicated space to work on the questions that shape everything else.
Ten participants. Four Thursdays. In person only. Through group and facilitated conversation, we hold each other accountable, learn from one another, and explore ways to bring more authenticity and care into what we do.
Begins August 8, 2026
6 pm – 7:30 pm
Oak Park, IL
4 Sessions
$240
World
Curriculum / Process / Systems Thinking
2026
Brian Morris
Co-Facilitator
A council circle and one question: why did you become a designer? We begin naming what we've been carrying into every room we enter. We will notice what goes missing — in a meeting, in a conversation, in the work. Just catch it.
We look at the expectations that shaped your practice — the lines drawn by family, career, culture, and fear — and ask which ones you actually drew yourself. We'll ask when you sit down to work, whose voices are in the room?
We talk about why the answers arrive in the shower and not at the desk — and practice three questions: What am I feeling? What story am I telling myself? What does my body already know? And we'll run through questions before your next professional interaction. Then walk in.
What the work is for, not what it pays. We ask what it looks like to design for people rather than outcomes — and what remains when the title goes away. We'll ask — who were we before? Who are we now? And who can we become?
This only works in a group. Through shared conversation, we hold each other accountable to what we find.
Christian Solorzano asks questions. As a designer, educator, and community builder based in Chicago, his work is oriented around a single belief: that creativity is not a talent but a practice — and a form of social responsibility that belongs to everyone.
He defends creativity the way others defend facts. His practice centers on communication — how it works, what it asks of the people doing it, and what becomes possible when more honesty enters the room. Nearly a decade of contemplative practice, rooted in neuroscience and mindfulness, shapes everything he makes and teaches.
That grounding shows up in a DePaul classroom, across more than 100 conversations on Underscore, and in the community of the Chicago Graphic Design Club. He is also a trained meditation instructor and holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
For more than 25 years, Brian Morris helped organizations navigate ambiguity through visual design, creative leadership, and digital experience strategy. His work centered on uncovering patterns, translating complexity, and making meaningful decisions before all the answers were known.
After leaving an Executive Creative Director role in 2021, Brian turned the same skills inward. Drawing from a lifetime of creative practice, he began exploring intuition not as a mystical gift, but as a capacity that can be cultivated through attention, trust, reflection, and daily practice.
Today, Brian helps people reconnect with their own intuitive intelligence and develop practical ways to access it in everyday life.