A Note from Parker Palmer, Founder and Senior Partner

I’m very proud of what the Center, its staff, facilitators and volunteers have accomplished over the past decade. I spend a lot of time thinking and writing, but these good colleagues “put wheels on ideas,” creating programs and retreats that have taken tens of thousands of people deeper into the workplace, and the larger world, with their identity and integrity more firmly in hand. That’s why my wife Sharon and I participate in the Parker J. Palmer Fund — which is not, I hasten to add, my retirement fund! We want to help the Center find a sustainable future and continue its life-giving work. I invite you to join us in this good cause. Every dollar will be well-spent to support people like you who are helping to humanize our institutions and their own communities. Thank you for your interest and participation in the Center’s mission. And the happiest of holidays to you and yours.

Annual Fund

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It takes a village to do Courage & Renewal work! The programs of the Center, its affiliates and its 160 facilitators would not have reached 25,000 people over the past decade if they were not embedded in a leader-rich community. This blog reflects the fact that Courage & Renewal work is about "us," not about any one person. So I've invited my colleagues to share in keeping this conversation going, and now we invite you to join us with your thoughts, questions, and stories. As Marge Piercy says in the last stanza of "The Low Road," a marvelous poem about how movements for change unfold,

"it starts when you say We/and know who you mean, and each/day you mean one more.”

If blogs are foreign to you, don’t let that put you off. Last month I had no idea what a blog was, but (with a nod to Stephen Colbert) today I am one -- and so can you!

Parker J. Palmer

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