Marilee Zdenek

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Marilee Zdenek is the founder and president of Right-Brain Resources, Inc., a consulting firm in Santa Barbara, California that provides books, tapes and seminars to stimulate creative thinking. She has served as consultant to the White House Task Force on Innovative Thinking and to the National Learning Foundation in Washington, D.C. At international conferences, such as The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, she has spoken and led guided-imagery sessions for political and economic world leaders.

As a pioneer in the application of right-brain techniques, she has presented her programs at Stanford University, USC, MIT, and many campuses of the University of California. She has taught at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference since 1977, helping screen writers, novelists, poets and journalists to enhance their creative powers.

In the medical community, Marilee Zdenek trained psychiatrists and psychologists in the use of guided imagery for releasing physical and emotional pain. Her imagery tapes are used by various hospitals and clinics, including the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles, California, the Maagalim Institute of Psychotherapy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Child Psychiatry Division in Los Angeles, California and Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her scientific paper on the use of imagery as a catalyst for innovative thinking and internal focusing was published in the medical journal, "Psychiatric Clinics of North America (Vol. 11, No 3, September 1988).

Marilee Zdenek is the best-selling author of six books: The Right-Brain Experience, Inventing the Future, Splinters in My Pride, Someone Special, God is a Verb! (in collaboration with Marge Champion) and Catch the New Wind. At the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. an adaptation of Someone Special was sponsored by Mrs. Ronald Reagan for members of Congress. Marilee Zdenek has reviewed books for the Los Angeles Times, Chaired the PEN USA West Literary Awards and recorded 22 audio tapes on subjects related to creativity and mental health.

Her work has received attention from Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other publications in the United States and Europe.