Links & Resources
Like-minded Conversations
- The Soul in Depression
- [http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/2009/depression/]
- Parker Palmer is a guest on this program about the spiritual aspects of depression.
- Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen
- [http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/2008/listening_generously/ ]
- Rachel Naomi Remen speaks about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us to live.
Economic Crisis
- SOF First Person: Repossessing Virtue
- [http://speakingoffaith.org/first-person/repossessing-virtue/]
- Our ongoing series exporing the moral, spiritual, and practical aspects of the economic downturn. We've been contacting familiar voices of wisdom and insight, and asking them a series of questions about the current economic climate.
- "Trusting Our Deeper Knowing"
- [http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/2009/rv-palmer/palmer-deeper_knowing.shtml]
- Read Parker Palmer's newsletter reflection "Trusting our Deeper Knowing: On Cataclysms, Contemplation, and Circles of Trust."
Parker Palmer
- The Center for Courage and Renewal
- [http://www.couragerenewal.org/]
- Explore the site of the educational organization Parker Palmer founded in 1997, which now offers retreats for people in a wide variety of professions.
- The Center for Courage and Renewal on YouTube
- [http://www.youtube.com/user/CourageRenewal]
- Includes interviews and narrated slideshows featuring Parker Palmer.
- Reclaim Integrity and Courage in Professional Life
- [http://www.forum-network.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3938]
- Listen to Parker Palmer's 2007 speech at The Boston Public Library. He speaks about his concepts of identity and integrity, and how people of all professions can live with more congruence between their inner and outer lives.
- Leading from Within: Reclaiming Selfhood in Professional Life
- http://www.forum-network.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=2047]
- Listen to Parker Palmer's 2005 Speech at Wellesley College on the challenge of "joining soul and role in public and private life."
- Leadership and the Inner Journey (pdf)
- [http://media.wiley.com/assets/45/45/0787958026_Palmer.pdf]
- A 2001 Interview with Parker Palmer from Leader to Leader magazine about the importance of the inner life to authentic leadership.
