About Patrick
Patrick Boatwright brings fifteen years of pastoral ministry, more than a decade as a creative professional, and graduate training in counseling at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He has come to see all of it as the same formation.
What holds it together is a conviction about flourishing. People and communities become who they're meant to be through honest story, genuine relationship, and the willingness to keep becoming. He has watched that work at the scale of organizations, in rooms full of people, and in close one-on-one conversations. It operates the same way at every scale.
That's why consulting, teaching, and pastoral care are three sides of the same work for him. His training and his life have pushed him toward holding all of it together: the psychological and the spiritual, the individual and the communal, the analytical and the contemplative.
Ultimately, Patrick finds creative beauty as a marker of lives being lived well, and he has dedicated his life to helping people and their work bear the mark of flourishing.
He is currently living out his own vibrant life in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
Work with meThe thinkers and traditions that have shaped the work most.
Howard Thurman
The interior spiritual life as the ground of liberation — what it means to have a religion of one's own
bell hooks
Love as both personal practice and communal commitment — the examined life at the intersection of race, gender, and belonging
Henri Nouwen
The wounded healer and what it means to be a pastor among people
Dallas Willard
Spiritual formation as renovation of the whole person, body and soul
Bryan Stevenson
Justice, mercy, and the obligation of proximity — what we owe the people the system has discarded
Theaster Gates
Art and place-making as community transformation — beauty as a form of repair in places systems have abandoned
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Integrative epistemology: what reciprocity, attention, and the intelligence of the living world can teach us about how we know