Parker J. Palmer

"Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" With this searching question, bestselling author Parker J. Palmer begins his insightful and moving meditation on finding our way toward meaning and purpose. As listeners of many ages, backgrounds, and walks of life will...

This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher....

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...

A Hidden Wholeness examines the sources and consequences of the alienation we feel when our inner and outer lives become divorced from each other....

Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do....

On the Brink of Everything is not a "guide to" or "handbook for" getting old. Instead, it's Palmer turning the prism of insight on his experience as a way of encouraging listeners to do the same with theirs....

News Flash! Utne Reader names Parker J. Palmer as one of "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" - people who, in the editor's words, "don't just think out loud but who walk their talk on a daily basis." See the October-November 2011 print or online issue. At a critical time in American...

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...