Camp Mighty Talks: Brian Piotrowicz
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 12:32PM 
I'm going to share my sketchbook with you, specifically the pages that I am making, from the notes that I took, during the talks at Camp Mighty. I am a touch shy about these, there is a "stomach-is-in-my-throat" kind of feeling about my sketches not being good enough or some crap like that, SO BE KIND TO ME. I am not sharing them because I think the drawings themselves are super awesome, (though I do like the city I drew, what do you think?) but because the messages are awesome and I want to spread these seeds around to people who were not in Palm Springs with me. I'm sure some of you are all Camp-Mightied out, and believe me, I kind of am too, but here's the thing: It would be easy to just move on or continue doing what I was doing before, but I got so many great messages over that weekend, that I am STILL processing them. I want to sit with these messages a while longer, mull them over and really absorb them.
Brian Piotrowicz was a co-producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show and is now a producer on the OWN channel. He's learned a lot working with Oprah and while I've never sat down to watch her daytime shows, I admire her and I am trying to study her a little, watching her Life Classes and Master Classes on OWN. I am looking forward to her Next Chapter shows, as they seem to be digging deep and looking for the hearts of some important people and issues. But, back to Brian. He was really sweet and charming and it seemed that his message resonated with a lot of people. Even if you can't get into the "feel good, let's cry" nature of the content he is producing, the idea that everything we do should be driven by intention is an easy one to grasp. He went one step further though and emphasized that it's important to focus on positive intentions because whatever we put out into the world comes back to us in spades. So, be good y'all.
Update! ⇒ Watch Brian's interview with Maggie on the Camp Mighty Vimeo Channel.
Next up? Evany Thomas, a content strategist at Facebook, who used her experiences at a cuddle party to illustrate how to do things we fear.
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Reader Comments (12)
LESLIE! THIS IS SO AWESOME! I seriously love it and think it's a great way to re-visualize the lessons from that day. xo
Leslie -- I've never thought of writing up notes like this, but my heavens -- this perfectly captures Brian's talk. I've been carrying my notebook with me since Camp Mighty, in case I have a moment of inspiration to turn my notes into something (like a long essay or some such since I don't have a blog), but maybe I need to create a sketch like you did here. Thanks so much for sharing this. Very, very inspiring. And even if I don't make my own sketch, yours thoroughly captures the takeaways from Brian's talk. Love it! ~wendy
Thanks Jen! So glad you like it.
Wendy - Thank you! It's a great way to think through everything, kind of distilling it down to the strongest messages. For me drawing and coloring are like a meditation, so as I'm working on it, I'm thinking about it too. It's a great exercise.
Leslie:
I *love* this!! Thank you for being brave and sharing this, because it perfectly captures the gist of Brian's talk in such a beautiful way! I am going to print this out and keep it at my desk to inspire me!
Thanks Jaime! I'm working on the other talks too. Let me know how it prints, it's screen resolution, so it might not look that great. I could email you a higher resolution version if you like.
Jaime - I uploaded a larger version that will print better, just click on the graphic and it'll link to the big one.
Thanks! I will print it in the big resolution!! :)
Leslie, this is fantastic! I think it should be a poster for Camp Mighty. xo
Oh! Hi Alice! Thanks so much! A poster? Really? Cool.
Leslie, this is such a cool way to express what you've learned! I'm relearning/reliving it all again. Thanks. lady!
Thank you for sharing your drawings - they are so inspiring. I stumbled across your blog from other Camp Mighty attendees, and I love that I found this here! Thank you! :)
Valerie, thanks for visiting! Glad to hear that you are finding these inspiring. I'm so glad I can pay it forward. Camp was amazing and I want to share as much of it as I can. The talks are now online!