Professional Biography

Facts About Neurofeedback

12 years ago

Brian Thiel, BTh, MRE
On January 18, 2009, the Grace Christian Church of LeRoy, MN called Brian to be their pastor. Brian and Sharon moved from Austin to LeRoy during the Summer of 2009. For several years both of them were very active with Austin (MN) Church of Christ and now they are making a transition to their "new place" in LeRoy. 

When they moved to Austin as their "retirement" community several years ago, one of Brian's other main involvements, along with his wife, Sharon, has been a web servicing business, Web Partners for Organizations.  But that is now gradually being "wound down." Brian's other "retirement" pursuits have included: officiating football, basketball and softball. Sharon has been similarly involved with a collection of activities, including the Austin Area Farmer's Market and with the Bank Boutique in Adams. 

During 2008 Brian ran for a seat in the MN House of Representatives (District 27B), hoping to unseat an incumbent who consistently votes to increase the size and cost of government and against individuals, including the unborn. But he lost the election. (It wasn't a good year for any Republicans.) Since then he has written a few op-ed columns for the Austin Post-Bulletin expressing his views on Minnesota politics from a "moderate conservative" viewpoint.

During his regular working years Brian had several careers. The last 20+ years Brian was an information systems engineer, including roles like a "full charge" Windows NT LAN Administrator with a small private college, a large public school system, and a medical research foundation in Minnesota and before that as a Senior Information Systems Engineer with a large communications firm in Arizona.  During these times he did  advanced technical support of TCPIP networks, Windows LANs, PCs, and Macs as a  Microsoft Certified Professional (Server, Enterprise and TCPIP).

Preceding that was a 10-year career in sales (insurance, pharmaceuticals, stocks and computers) and before that he was a minister of the gospel for 10 years.  He never had a falling away from his church, but just realized at age 30 that he needed to pursue more technical-type occupations.

If you would like to find out even more about Brian's several careers... look at the Professional Bio.

Since the mid-90s, Brian has produced scores of web sites and hundreds of pages for all sorts of organizations, professionals and small businesses.  His largest site was founding and developing over a dozen years the International Society for Neurofeedback and  Research(ISNR). This organization specializes in neurofeedback training (a.k.a. EEG biofeedback or EEG operant conditioning) as used to assist people change their brains to change their lives from histories of addiction, pain, and a wide range of other human maladies.  Although never a neurofeedback practitioner, Brian developed a deep understanding of and respect for this new frontier of the brain which meshed so well with his lifetime Christian and philosophical positions.  The Neurofeedback FAQ condenses his observations and opinions about this.

Recently Brian joined Facebook after several invitations from others to join them on this new wave of social interaction. He plans to post small snippets of ideas there whenever something might be interesting to others, especially on matters of Biblical study, Christian living and Minnesota politics.

Updated Sep  2009