Patrick Boatwright

About Patrick

Patrick Boatwright brings fifteen years of pastoral ministry, more than a decade as a creative professional, and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. He has come to see all of it as the same formation.

What holds it together is a conviction about how people and organizations operate at their best. They become their best through establishing an honest sense of self, organizing the things they do in ways that flow from that center, and building the resilience to grow as they encounter new influences. He has guided that work at the individual, communal, and organizational level through great questions, even better listening, and a honed ability to turn what he learns into actionable steps toward wholeness.

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 me

Formation & Influence

The thinkers and traditions that have shaped the work most.

01

Howard Thurman

The interior spiritual life as the ground of liberation — what it means to have a religion of one's own

02

bell hooks

Love as both personal practice and communal commitment — the examined life at the intersection of race, gender, and belonging

03

Henri Nouwen

The wounded healer and what it means to be a pastor among people

04

Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation as renovation of the whole person, body and soul

05

Bryan Stevenson

Justice, mercy, and the obligation of proximity — what we owe the people the system has discarded

06

Theaster Gates

Art and place-making as community transformation — beauty as a form of repair in places systems have abandoned

07

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Integrative epistemology: what reciprocity, attention, and the intelligence of the living world can teach us about how we know