We are living in an in-between time, embedded between the harsh realities of the world as we know it and the possibility of a world that has yet to fully emerge. In When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse, author Norma Wong names these moments of crisis that we’re experiencing as critical junctures.
These are spaces where the old ways of being no longer hold, and the choices we make next carry extraordinary power. Whether in our institutions, our communities, or our personal lives, each of us is being invited to decide how to “step in” rather than “step away”: to cultivate the imagination, strategies, and relationships needed to shape what comes next.
Join Norma Wong, author, Zen Master, and community advisor, and Parker J. Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal and author of Let Your Life Speak and On the Brink of Everything, for a conversation moderated by Kathryn McElveen, CCR’s Executive Director.