A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life Review
This book was like taking my soul to the most relaxing, nourishing spa imaginable.
I love anything that spins counter-culture and this book is it! Parker Palmer shares in his DVD (Circle of Trust, it comes with the book) how participants get in touch with their inner truth.
He gives you the skills to develop your own circle of trust, cautioning that it takes tremendous dedication to hold a safe space. You've got to be vigilant in remembering that each person is his or her own authority. They're the ones with their answers - you have to listen it out of them. Parker also compares questions laced with advice to truly open, curious questions. A question like, `Have you thought about going to therapy?' has a built-in answer and isn't empowering to the soul at all.
A Hidden Wholeness is broken down in 4 parts: 1) Being true to yourself 2) The meaning of community 3) Transformational learning and 4) Nonviolent social change.
If you want to bring more of your soul into the role you play in life, this book will be a guiding light on your path.
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- ISBN13: 9780470453766
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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life Overview
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 years: 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
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Customer Reviews
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward and Undivided Life. - Whatoncewasisnomore. - Utah
What a great and simple read to start the process which I believe we as humans are all seeking for - in our eternal quest of being whole people. I have seen amazing results in practicing what is outlined in the book. Getting in touch with ourselves is of greatest value in this work.
renewal group study book - cpkreader -
I belong to a small group that meets weekly for prayer and discussion, to help us grow in our Christian faith, action and study. This book was suggested by one of our members, and we've just started it. It seems to be a book that will help us integrate what goes on in our outward and our inward lives, so that we can become more wholly the person we are meant to be.
I can't really rate this book until we have finished it, which is why I only gave it 3 stars.
True Self finds its way - Chris Y. Park - Los Angeles, CA USA
If you lost your soul trying to live life fitting the cultural norms, this book will help you find your soul and live life true to yourself, not to others. This book helped heal the wounds that were self-inflicted and buried deep inside of my soul. The author speaks from his own experiences, and I could relate to every word in this book. I am a devout Christian and found this book spiritually healing as well. Our journey in life is mysterious and entirely inexplicable to me but our soul knows our path and guides us through pains when things fall apart despite all of our intentions to make it perfect.
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