The Inner Edge, August/September 1998
Community is not a goal to be achieved but a gift to be received. Community must be present in the individual as “a capacity for connectedness and requires authentic leadership that can create trustworthy, self-sustaining spaces where people can bring their human resourcefulness. Parker J. Palmer suggests new paradigms for community, such as inviting in “the enemy” and embracing conflict, creating “pockets of possibility” beyond bureaucratic hierarchy, and calling on a wider understanding of leadership.
