Our speaker this month is Gretchen McNeely, a standup comic, event host, and corporate speaker. Our theme this month is patterns – ways our brains have of sorting information in meaningful ways. Patterns can be valuable tools, aiding in learning or synthesizing information. But they can also lead to us making assumptions, or to avoid thinking about issues in depth. This month, Gretchen will be sharing stories about patterns in her life – how she’s come to understand her own patterns better, and how observing our own and others’ behavior can help us differentiate between those pattern types, and come to the aid of people who need us.