Deepening our sense of purpose
Recently Polly LaBarre wrote an excellent Harvard Business Review Blog Network post about “Developing Mindful Leaders.” In it she writes,
“What if, instead of stuffing people with curricula, models, and competencies, we focused on deepening [leaders] sense of purpose, expanding their capability to navigate difficulty and complexity, and enriching their emotional resilience? What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being?”
These are the very “inner life” priorities that are placed front and center in the Courage & Renewal Academy for Leaders.
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It takes a village to do Courage & Renewal work! The programs of the Center, its affiliates and its 176 facilitators would not have reached 40,000 people over the past fifteen years 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.”
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Parker J. Palmer
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