The Courage Way

Foreword

Parker J. Palmer

In the early 1990s, with the generous support of the Fetzer Institute, I planted the seeds of what would eventually become the Center for Courage & Renewal—seeds that grew rapidly under the wise, visionary, and grounded leadership of my friends, colleagues, and cofounders, Marcy Jackson and Rick Jackson.

The idea behind our work is to help leaders show up more fully in the workplace—and in every dimension of their lives— with their identity and integrity in hand and intact. To put it another way, we help leaders “rejoin soul and role” in order to gain transformative leverage on the work they do, the institutions in which they do it, and the larger world. As the great social movements have demonstrated, the human soul—or ...