LIVING INTO THE FUTURE

Speaker: Bill Patrie

My talk focuses on how a desired future can influence daily life. I used personal examples of growing up in a small community and experiencing the greater world. Those experiences, life lessons, helped identify blind spots that had kept me from seeing reality-not only as it is, but as I wanted it to be. As we identify blind spots and collectively share our hopes for the world we want to exist, we break the patterns of the past and are transformed, individually and collectively. There are examples of folks who have already done this transformational work among us and continue to inspire us all.