Parker J. Palmer

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives.

"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."- Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction] Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do -- give heart to our students? In The Courage to Teach , Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students -- and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors.

In A Hidden Wholeness , Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives—lives that are congruent with our inner truth—in a world filled with the forces of fragmentation. Mapping an inner journey that we take in solitude and in the company of others, Palmer describes a form of community that fits the limits of our active lives. Defining a “circle of trust” as “a space between us that honors the soul,” he shows how people in settings ranging from friendship to organizational life can support each other on the journey toward living “divided no more.” This paperback edition includes two new and useful features. Circles of Trust is a DVD containing interviews with Parker J. Palmer and footage from retreats he facilitated for the Center for Courage & Renewal (www.CourageRenewal.org). Bringing the Book to Life, by Caryl Hurtig Casbon and Sally Z. Hare, is a reader's and leader's guide to exploring the themes in A Hidden Wholeness. The DVD illuminates and illustrates the principles and practices behind circles of trust. The guide includes questions that connect the DVD to the book, offering "a conversation with the author" as well as an engagement with the text. Together, these features give readers new ways to internalize the themes of A Hidden Wholeness and share with others this approach to sustaining identity and integrity in all the venues of our lives. Inspired by Palmer’s writing and speaking—and challenged by the conditions of twenty-first century life—people across the country, from many walks of life, have been coming together in circles of trust to reclaim their integrity and help foster wholeness in their workplaces and their world. For over a decade, the principles and practices in this book have been proven on the ground—by parents and educators, clergy and politicians, community organizers and corporate executives, physicians and attorneys, and many others who seek to rejoin soul and role in their private and public lives. A Hidden Wholeness weaves together four themes that its author has pursued for forty the shape of an integral life, the meaning of community, teaching and learning for transformation, and nonviolent social change. The hundreds of thousands of people who know Parker Palmer’s books will be glad to find the journey continued

From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds. "Old," he writes, "is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time to dive deep into life, not withdraw to the shallows."But this book is not for elders only. It was written to encourage adults of all ages to explore the way their lives are unfolding. It's not a how-to-do-it book on aging, but a set of meditations in prose and poetry that turn the prism on the meaning(s) of one's life, refracting new light at every turn.From beginning to end, the book is laced with humor as well as gravitas -- beautifully enhanced by three free downloadable songs from the gifted singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer , written in response to themes in the book.Table of ContentsPreludeI. The View from the What I Can See from HereII. Young & The Dance of the GenerationsIII. Getting From Illusion to RealityIV. Work & Writing a LifeV. Keep Reaching Staying Engaged with the WorldVI. Keep Reaching Staying Engaged with Your SoulVII. Over the Where We Go When We DiePostlude

This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.

* NEWS FLASH * Healing the Heart of Democracy called "one of the most important books of the early 21st Century" for those who care about democracy. ( Democracy & Education)* NEWS FLASH * Healing the Heart of Democrac y named one of the "Best Books of 2011" on contemplation and social activism. ( Spirituality & Practice ) * NEWS FLASH * Parker J. Palmer named one of "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" -- people who "don't just think out loud but who walk their talk on a daily basis." ( The Utne Reader)~ HOPE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN AN ERA OF DEEP DIVISIONS ~ In Healing the Heart of Democracy , Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous and practical work -- intensely personal as well as political -- is not about them , "those people" in Washington D.C., or in our state capitals, on whom we blame our political problems. It's about us , "We the People," and what we can do in everyday settings like families, neighborhoods, classrooms, congregations and workplaces to resist divide-and-conquer politics and restore a government "of the people, by the people, for the people."In the same compelling, inspiring prose that has made him a bestselling author , Palmer explores five "habits of the heart" that can help us restore democracy's foundations as we nurture them in ourselves and each other: (1) An understanding that we are all in this together. (2) An appreciation of the value of "otherness." (3) An ability to hold tensions in life-giving ways. (4) A sense of personal voice and agency. (5) A capacity to create community. Healing the Heart of Democracy is an eloquent and empowering call for "We the People" to reclaim our democracy. Publishers Weekly , in a *Starred Review*, said "This beautifully written book deserves a wide audience that will benefit from discussing it."

The Active Life is Parker J. Palmer's deep and graceful exploration of a spirituality for the busy, sometimes frenetic lives many of us lead. Telling evocative stories from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoist, Jewish, and Christian, Palmer shows that the spiritual life does not mean abandoning the world but engaging it more deeply through life-giving action. He celebrates both the problems and potentials of the active life, revealing how much they have to teach us about ourselves, the world, and God.

First published in 1980—and reissued here with a feisty new introductory essay— The Promise of Paradox launched Parker J. Palmer’s career as an author and his ongoing exploration of the contradictions that vex and enrich our lives. In this probing and heartfelt book, the distinguished writer, teacher, and activist examines some of the challenging questions at the core of Christian spirituality. How do we live with the apparent opposition between good and evil, scarcity and abundance, individuality and community, death and new life? We can hold them as paradoxes, not “either/ors,” allowing them to open our minds and hearts to new ways of seeing and being.

A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education. From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being--mind, heart, and spirit--an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time. The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades.Presents Parker Palmer's powerful response to critics of holistic learning and Arthur Zajonc's elucidation of the relationship between science, the humanities, and the contemplative traditions Explores ways to take steps toward making colleges and universities places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff Offers a practical approach to fostering renewal in higher education through collegiality and conversation The Heart of Higher Education is for all who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.

In this award-winning book, Parker J. Palmer offers a compelling vision of a disciplined inward search that strengthens our commitment to our communities. Palmer reminds us that a truly profound spiritual life leads us toward the God who makes us a community.

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection & Renewal is a helpful companion to Parker J. Palmer's classic work on restoring identity and integrity to professional life. A superb resource for those who wish to extend their exploration of the ideas in The Courage to Teach, as individuals or part of a study group, the Guide provides practical ways to create "safe space" for honest reflection and probing conversations and offers chapter-by-chapter questions and exercises to further explore the many insights in The Courage to Teach. The bonus online content includes a 70-minute interview with Parker Palmer, in which Palmer reflects on a wide range of subjects including the heart of the teacher, the crisis in education, diverse ways of knowing, relationships in teaching and learning, approaches to institutional transformation, and teachers as "culture heroes." Discussion questions related to the topics explored in the interview have been integrated into the Guide, giving individuals and study groups a chance to have "a conversation with the author" as well as an engagement with the text.

"God comes to us in the midst of human need, and the most pressing needs of our time demand community in response." True community can be found in homes, neighborhoods, schools, and work places. And, as Parker Palmer famously notes, true community is "that place where the person you least want to live with always lives!"

Parker Palmer, whose own life is so full of creative contradictions, has found in Merton a brother whose inconsistencies and irregularities invite us to enter them deeply and to discover there, beyond all contradictions, the One who cannot be caught, grasped, or understood but only intuited and recognized with a smile. Parker Palmer knows Merton well because he has an affinity with him. Parker has done many things people do who want to “make it” in the world. But somewhere and somehow he became as crazy as Merton. Parker must have loved Merton as much as he studied him, and must have understood Merton long before he had worked his way through Merton’s bibliography. This essay is short, fresh, and obviously written with a twinkle in the eye. And the greatest surprise of all is that it not only leads us closer to the spirit of Merton, but closer to Him in whose service Merton juggled contradiction and paradox.

A wise, heartfelt, and compelling guide to our quest for wholeness in a broken worldA Hidden Wholeness—now in its 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new Introduction by bestselling author Parker J. Palmer—has helped people in every walk of life rise to the challenge of living “divided no more.” What leads us to live divided lives that defy our own sense of identity and integrity? When we do, what price do we and the world pay? How can we recover the wholeness that is our birthright gift? Palmer examines the forces that deflect us from the soul's true north and gives us the tools we need to regain our bearings.Mapping an inner journey to be taken in solitude and community, Palmer explores perspectives and practices that can help us embody integrity in a world where it often feels risky to be who we are. As we learn how to be present to others in spaces where it's safe for the soul to speak (aka “circles of trust”), we find ways to rejoin soul and role in our personal, vocational, and public lives.Inspired by A Hidden Wholeness—and by the work of the Center for Courage & Renewal, a nonprofit Palmer founded in the late 1990s—tens of thousands of people have participated in circles of trust to deepen their sense of “true self” and contribute to the common good in the places where they live and work. To support readers in developing these practices, the book comes with an online “Study Guide for Readers and Group Leaders,” including author videos, available free at the Center's website.In the midst of our broken world, the principles and practices in this book can ground us in the “hidden wholeness,” giving us a place to stand as we seek to live with deeper integrity at every level of our lives.

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หนังสือเล่มนี้แม้จะจัดอยู่ในหมวดการศึกษา แต่ก็เป็นไปในลักษณะของการศึกษาเพื่อการเปลี่ยนแปลง เพื่อให้ผู้สอน ผู้เรียน ครู นักเรียน นักศึกษา ได้เกิดการเรียนรู้ร่วมกัน อันจะนำไปสู่การเปลี่ยนแปลงตัวเองอย่างแท้จริง โดยเฉพาะการเปลี่ยนแปลงเชิงคุณค่าและคุณภาพด้านใน ซึ่งจะนำไปสู่การเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ดีต่อสังคมและโลกใบนี้ ด้วยหน้าที่สำคัญของการจัดการศึกษาคือการสร้างคนให้เป็นคนอย่างสมบูรณ์ นอกเหนือจากทักษะความรู้เพื่อการเลี้ยงชีพ หนังสือนี้จึงเหมาะกับนักการศึกษา ครู อาจารย์ในทุกระดับ ตั้งแต่ประถม มัธยม จนถึงระดับอุดมศึกษา รวมถึงผู้ที่ทำงานด้านการฝึกอบรมที่ให้ความสนใจเรื่องกระบวนการและการสร้างภาวะผู้นำ ทั้งยังสอดคล้องและเป็นประโยชน์ต่อผู้ที่สนใจเรื่องการบริหารองค์กรทั้งแบบธุรกิจและองค์กรในรูปแบบต่างๆ ผู้เขียน ปาร์กเกอร์ ปาล์มเมอร์ เป็นผู้มีประสบการณ์ด้านการสอนและการจัดการศึกษารวมกว่า ๓๐ ปี เขาวิเคราะห์ปัญหาของการศึกษาที่เป็นอยู่ และชี้ให้เห็นถึงความไม่กล้าเปลี่ยนแปลงหรือทดลองสิ่งใหม่ๆ เพื่อปรับปรุงให้การจัดการศึกษาดีขึ้น มีความเป็นองค์รวมมากขึ้น เชื่อมโยงโลกทั้งในห้องเรียน โลกภายนอกห้องเรียน และที่สำคัญคือเชื่อมโยงโลกภายในตัวนักเรียนเอง ทำให้ผู้เรียนเกิดแรงบันดาลใจและเห็นถึงศักยภาพของตนเองเขายังวิเคราะห์เจาะลึกลงไปถึงก้นบึ้งของหัวใจของการศึกษา รวมทั้งครูในฐานะผู้ที่น่าจะมีบทบาทต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ว่านี้ ว่ามีสาเหตุมาจากความกลัว ความกลัวคืออะไร ความกลัวอยู่ในทุกหนทุกแห่งทั้งในการเมือง การศึกษา การบริหารและการจัดการองค์กร ล้วนถูกสร้างอยู่บนวัฒนธรรมแห่งความกลัว ผู้ที่เป็นครูหรือผู้บริหาร จะต้องกล้าที่จะสอน คือกล้าที่จะเชื้อเชิญให้นักเรียนค้นหาสำรวจด้วยการใช้ชีวิตที่เป็นของพวกเขา กล้าที่จะนำเพื่อให้องค์กรมีการบริหารอย่างมีส่วนร่วม อันจะนำไปสู่การสร้างภาวะผู้นำขึ้นในองค์กร หากปราศจากซึ่งความกล้า การเปลี่ยนแปลงก็จะเกิดขึ้นได้ยาก หนังสือนี้จึงเหมาะจะเป็นคู่มือสำหรับการสอน การบริหาร การเป็นผู้นำ รวมทั้งการขับเคลื่อนทางสังคมที่ให้มุมมองทั้งเรื่องกระบวนทัศน์ใหม่ของความรู้ การสร้างจิตวิญญาณร่วมสมัย การเรียนรู้เพื่อการเปลี่ยนแปลง การกลับมาเชื่อมโยง การเข้าใจความเป็นองค์รวมที่ขาดหายไป ไม่แต่ในแวดวงการศึกษาเท่านั้น แต่ในทุกภาคส่วนของสังคมในองค์กรแบบต่างๆ ในชุมชนละแวกบ้าน หรือแม้แต่ในครอบครัวเองก็ตาม

This essay is the transcription of an address by Parker J. Palmer given at the Annual Celebration Dinner of the Indiana Office for Campus Ministries

What does it mean to live "divided no more"? For renowned educator and author Parker J. Palmer (whose books have sold over 700,000 copies), it means living in harmony with the true self, embedded in community and responsive to the needs of the world. The Undivided Life presents the first-ever audio retrospective on the major themes Palmer has explored over the past forty years. Now, listeners join this visionary thinker to explore: - How we can choose an undivided life in a world riddled with divisions - Why we need real community - "a circle of trust" - to take an inner journey toward wholeness - How we can engage in teaching and learning for transformation - Why we need "to act in every situation in ways that honour the soul. "Once I have seen my dividedness," asks Palmer, "do I continue to live a contradiction - or do I try to bring my inner and outer worlds back into harmony"? With The Undivided Life, listeners sit beside this master teacher for a 5-hour conversation, laced with good stories and warmed with humour, on living and working with integrity at every level of our lives.

คู่มือเพื่อการใคร่ครวญและฟื้นฟูจิตวิญญาณครูปัญหาต่างๆ ที่ถูกยกขึ้นมาในหนังสือ กล้าที่จะสอน นั้นเรียกน้องให้เราฝึกการเปิดกว้างและความเปราะบางทั้งกับตัวเราเองและกับอื่น ขณะที่“กล้าที่จะแนะ”เป็นขุมปัญญาชั้นเลิศสำหรับผู้ที่ปรารถนาขยายขอบเขตการสำรวจแนวความคิดใน กล้าที่จะสอน ทั้งโดยส่วนตัวและเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของกลุ่มศึกษา เพื่อช่วยให้ผู้อ่านได้ใคร่ครวญการสอน และปรับทัศนะในอาชีพการงานของตนเสียใหม่ กล้าที่จะแนะ ได้เสนอวิธีที่นำไปใช้ได้จริงในการสร้าง “พื้นที่ปลอดภัย” เพื่อการใคร่ครวญและตั้งคำถามอย่างซื่อตรง และได้ให้ตัวอย่างคำถามกับแบบฝึกหัดบทต่อบทเพื่อการสำรวจเรามักพยายามแก้ปัญหาการศึกษาด้วยการคิดเทคนิคใหม่ๆ หรือเปลี่ยนหลักสูตร แต่ไม่เคยลงลึกไปที่อัตลักษณ์และความซื่อตรงของเราเองเรามุ่งเน้นที่ “อะไร” กับ “อย่างไร” ในเรื่องการสอน เช่น “เราจะสอนวิชาอะไรดี?” กับ “เราจะใช้วิธีไหนดี?” คำถามซึ่งดูมีความหมายที่ชัดเจนในการถามแต่คงจะยาก ถ้าเราจะถามสิ่งที่สำคัญพอๆ กันกับคำถามว่า “ใคร” อย่างเช่น “ใครคือตัวตนที่สอนอยู่? คุณภาพของการสร้างตัวตนเป็นอย่างไร หรือบิดเบี้ยวอย่างไร? ความสัมพันธ์ของฉันกับนักเรียน กับวิชาที่สอนกับเพื่อนครูด้วยกัน กับโลก เป็นอย่างไร? สถาบันการศึกษาจะสามารถช่วยให้ครูรักษาและพัฒนาตัวตนให้ลุ่มลึกเพื่อการสอนที่ดีได้อย่างไร?” เหล่านี้คือประเด็นที่ผู้เขียนชี้ชวนให้เรามาสำรวจและใคร่ครวญร่วมกัน

A Hidden Wholeness has helped people in every walk of life rise to the challenge of living "divided no more." What leads us to live divided lives that defy our own sense of identity and integrity? When we do, what price do we and the world pay? How can we recover the wholeness that is our birthright gift? Palmer examines the forces that deflect us from the soul's true north and gives us the tools we need to regain our bearings.Palmer explores perspectives and practices that can help us embody integrity in a world where it often feels risky to be who we are. As we learn how to be present to others in spaces where it's safe for the soul to speak., we find ways to rejoin soul and role in our personal, vocational, and public lives.Inspired by A Hidden Wholeness-and by the work of the Center for Courage & Renewal, a nonprofit Palmer founded—tens of thousands of people have participated in circles of trust to deepen their sense of “true self” and contribute to the common good.In the midst of our broken world, the principles and practices in this book can ground us in the "hidden wholeness," giving us a place to stand as we seek to live with deeper integrity at every level of our lives.

College spiritIn todays college reality, which has become a preparation center for practical knowledge, it is the mission of universities to nurture an intelligent human being with a combination of intellect, emotion and spirituality, and presents the philosophical basis and vision of integrated education necessary for this. In addition, I will introduce examples of American universities practicing such integrated education in actual education field.The author of the bestselling "Courage to Teach" is Parker Farmer, who is called the Educator of the Soul in the depth of inquiry about the dynamics of teaching and learning, inner scenery of teachers and students, , A professor of physics and a pioneer of self-reflective pedagogy, has written with Arthur Giants, who has been studying and teaching at the intersection of modern physics, humanities, and various meditative traditions for over 30 years.The integrated education that the authors talk about is education not to divide the external and internal aspect of the student and the teacher, not as an empty vessel to fill the students, but as an integrated whole personality, It is an education that responds to questions about the meaning and value of.

Spirituality of Job Creation Careb Parker Palmer, the author of "Politics for the Wicked," speaks of spirituality that harmonizes action and meditation!Kim Chan Ho, Park Chong, Jeong Byeong Oh Featured bThe king of the wood carving made a wooden base with precious wood.It was amazed that everyone who saw what he made was amazed that it was a work of spirituality."What is your secret?"King said, "I am only an artisan." There is no secret. It is just to do this.When I begin to think about the work that the bishop has commanded, I keep my sanity and do not care about the little things that are not related to the work. We fasted to calm down.