What is Nine Word Vision?
Nine Word Vision is a Dear World interactive keynote led by Robert X. Fogarty. Each participant chooses a value that matters to them, writes a short letter from that value's point of view, and distills it into nine words. The words follow one shape: four words, then three, then the two that matter most, which Dear World calls the point. Each vision is paired with a printed Dear World portrait. It runs as an opening keynote with a portrait session, and can close with an optional storytelling reveal.
Nine Word
Vision.
Each person in the room turns one value into nine words. Every vision is paired with a printed portrait.
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Every vision
comes to
a point.
Nine Word Vision is an interactive keynote with Robert X. Fogarty. Each person starts with a value that matters to them and distills it into nine words. Four come first, then three, then the two that matter most. We call those last two words the point.
Each vision is paired with a printed Dear World portrait, so people go home with their words and their picture.
9
Words
4 · 3 · 2
The Shape
1
Printed Portrait
From one value
to nine words.
Four words
Three words
The point
01
Choose a value
Each person picks a value that matters to them, like courage, patience or belonging.
02
Write a letter
They write a short letter from that value’s point of view. What would it say to you about the year ahead?
03
Find the nine words
Robert guides the room in distilling that letter down to nine words: four, then three, then the two that matter most.
04
Share it
Anyone who wants to can share theirs with the room. Everyone leaves with a vision in their own words.
A portrait
for every vision.
Our crew photographs each guest in a Dear World studio portrait, printed and paired with their nine words. These are portraits from past events.
How it fits
your event.
01
Opening Keynote
30–60 min
Robert opens from the main stage and takes the whole room from a value to nine words. By the end of the hour everyone has written theirs, and a few people read them out loud.
02
Portrait Session
Two hours
Guests sit for their portraits after the keynote, first come, first served. For a bigger group we add photography crew and stations.
03
Closing Reveal
20–60 min · Optional
Robert closes the event by bringing the room’s own stories back to the stage.