Summer Whites Evening

This is our last night together on the island, our conference ends tomorrow morning and everyone will say goodbye for now.  Some amazing friendships have been formed this week.

This is Henk and Akemi Rodgers from Hawaii.  Henk has done 2 very cool things on this trip which show the type of amazing person he is.  1) the hat he is wearing - he brought as a white hat and called it his Peace Hat - he brought colored markers and asked everyone to write something about how we can bring peace to the world on it.  This hat is truly amazing now with the creative artwork and inspirational messages from everyone on it of how we can create a more peaceful world (and wouldn't that be cool!).  My addition was my continued adage along with a simple diagram of two people united...The World would be a better place if we hugged more! 

 This is Satjiv and Vera - super cool couple.  He used to be head of Apple Marketing and then moved to HP to look after their marketing.  His speciality is bringing marketing to innovative new products.  She is a German artist and architect, living in Italy.  His big push in marketing is to add PURPOSE to the regular marketing strategies involving price, placement, etc.  He is very inspirational and is definitely a force for good in Silicon Valley. 

 

 This evening featured Morley (sorry not a great pic) - an incredible singer/songwriter.  Her voice was so moving and we had to give her a standing ovation for such an emotional set of music which talked about developing a better relationship with the environment, loving each other more, more faith is what is possible, more understanding of each other.  It was deeply touching for everyone.

To balance out the evening with the deeply moving, came the deeply comedic.  Jack and Ludo had us all laughing histerically at the dubbed face of Dr Godfray (our professor who loves bugs).

 In our closing session/discussion tonight, everyone felt a great sense of purpose and that this week together would produce some profound results go forward.  I have been filled with this sense of purpose in joining this amazing group of people in a commitment to be a change agent - to be courageous and step forward in a more meaningful way to make a difference.  A difference in the way we honor nature, the way we honor each other, and the way we honor ourselves by being the change that we want to see happen.