Healing the Heart of Democracy Series
Apr 9, 2025 11:00 AM | Organization: Center for Contemplative Practices This series will center around Parker Palmer’s book (2024): Healing the Heart of Democracy: “Many of us on the left, on the right, and in the center have at least this much in common: a shared experience of heartbreak about the condition of our culture, our society, our body politic. That shared heartbreak can build a footbridge of mutual understanding on which we can walk toward each other. Within us is a yearning for something better than divisiveness, toxicity, passivity, powerlessness, and selling our democratic inheritance to the highest bidder. Within us is the courage to pursue that yearning, to hold life’s tensions consciously, faithfully, and well, until they break us open. The broken-open heart is a source of power as well as compassion—the power to bring down whatever diminishes us and raise up whatever serves us well.” In these sessions we will explore ways in which we can keep this experiment of democracy alive in our hearts, in our actions and in our interactions with others in order to foster a more mindful, compassionate and thoughtful community and world.
