Deep Hope Institute - Pursuing What Matters
My context is expanding, though my intent is the same -- discovering and taking steps about what matters.
The times we live in require the courage, wisdom and freedom born of Spirit.
I invite you to join me at the inaugural program of the Deep Hope Institute with Bill Grace, Founder and Former Executive Director with the Center for Ethical Leadership.
The Deep Hope Institute focuses on the Spiritual renewal of leaders and social change agents for greater and more powerful service in the world.
The purpose of Deep Hope is spiritual transformation. We open our hearts so that Spirit can transform us and in doing so we become more deeply equipped to engage the powers, structures and systems of the world with vision, confidence, and compassion as we seek to co-create a more loving, just, and sustainable society.
To read more about Bill ...
Bill is a social justice activist, a traveling teacher, storyteller, and an architect of ideas.
From 1976-1991 (14 years) Bill served in Higher Education promoting ideas related to moral and civic responsibility, service learning and global citizenship. In 1991 he founded the Center for Ethical Leadership. The Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the common good through ethical leadership, civic responsibility and collaborative problem solving. Bill served as Executive Director for the next 14 years.
His current research and writing has focused on understanding Deep Hope, Moral Courage and other deep sources of motivation that have inspired transformational leaders to courageously pursue justice.
Bill believes that Deep Hope is a vital resource for those who seek to advance justice as comes to us as a gift through the practice of spiritual development and through our compassionate connection with those who suffer on the margins of society.
Therefore he promotes leadership that is grounded in spiritual development and compassion both of which deepen our commitment to pursue a just and peaceful world.
Mark, this is something that most thoughtful and sometimes influential people (at times leaders in their countries) have been promoting for decades(Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, etc.). These people used to be called the enlightened ones, spiritual leaders, thinkers... long before think-tanks came to being, which actually too often seem to be just practical tools for implementing political interests of powerful groups and political parties rather than the true light-bearers. I beliwev with you and Bill that people can actually get educated in an enlightened leadership based in a spiritual foundation of a human being and personal integrity. All the best with your great commendable effort!
Posted by: Jan | February 22, 2007 at 07:05 PM