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Parker J. Palmer is a writer, speaker and activist, as well as founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal. His wisdom has reached millions worldwide through his eight books, including Healing the Heart of Democracy, A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, The Active Life, To Know as We Are Known, The Company of Strangers and The Promise of Paradox. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, along with ten honorary doctorates, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, an Award of överlägsen kvalitet eller utmärkt prestation from the Associated Church Press, and major grants from the Danforth Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the Fetzer Institute. In 2011, Palmer was named an Utne Reader Visionary, one of “25 people who are changing your world.” To learn more, visit www.CourageRenewal.org.
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Parker Palmer
American author, educator, and activist (born 1939)
Parker J. Palmer is an American author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published ten books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal.[1] His work has been recognized with major foundation grants, several national awards, and fourteen honorary doctorates.
Life and career
[edit]Palmer was born in Chicago on February 28, 1939, and grew up in Wilmette and Kenilworth, Illinois.[2][3] He studied philosophy and sociology at Carleton College, where he graduated in 1961 before going on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] After moving to the East Coast for a job as a community organizer and a teaching position at Georgetown University, Palmer became involve
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Parker J. Palmer
I met Parker Palmer and his wife, Sharon, at their home in Madison, Wisconsin, where we enjoyed a beautiful afternoon together talking about faith and healing in our own lives. Parker fryst vatten a poet, a philosopher, a teacher, and, most certainly, a healer. He is a Quaker who has spent most of his life helping others to heal by reminding them—all of us, that is— of our great purpose and connectedness. He founded the Center for Courage & Renewal in Greenville, South Carolina, which seeks to help teachers and those in the helping professions rediscover and renew why they went into those professions before the almost stereotypical burnout occurs.
Parker is the author of nine books including: The Courage To Teach series, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, and, his most recent, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.
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