Courageous Leadership: PrincipleCentered Leadership

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Courageous Leadership Principle-Centered
Leadership

• Presented By Stephen Pocklington, CRE, ITE

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Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said
not to exist. It is just like the roads across
the earth. For actually there were no roads
to begin with, but when many people pass one way
a road is made.
Lu Xun, 1921
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The people we have met on this journey are living
this story.They are pushing forward the edge of
hope with what they prove is possible. They
are creating new space in which each of us can
find hope. Frances
Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, 2002
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Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when
we see--in the minds eye--a path to a better
future. Hope acknowledges the significant
obstacles and deep pitfalls along the path. True
hope has no room for delusion. Clear-eyed, hope
gives us the courage to confront our
circumstances, and the capacity to surmount them.
For all my patients, hope, true hope, has proved
as important as any medication I might
prescribe. Jerome Groopman, MD, 2004
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Beware how you take hope away from another human
being Oliver
Wendell Homes
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Hope isnt the same as Optimism

• Hope isnt blind to suffering and struggle it
  has survived them
• Hope is rooted in the experienced or witnessed
  reality of resilience and recovery
• Hope is the undaunted belief that tomorrow can be
  better than today despite what the pessimists and
  so-called realists may say

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This kind of hope isnt clean or tidy. Honest
hope has an edge. Its messy. It requires that
we let go of pat answers, all preconceived
formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be
smooth. Its not a resting point. Honest hope
is movement Frances
Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, 2002
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Hope can arrive only when you recognize that
there are real options and that you have genuine
choices.Hope can only flourish when you believe
that what you do can make a difference, that your
actions can bring a future different from the
present. Jerome Groopman, MD, 2004
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To have hope, then, is to acquire a belief in
your ability to have some control over your
circumstances.You are no longer entirely at the
mercy of forces outside yourself. Jerome
Groopman, MD, 2004
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Before we can realize who we are, we must become
conscious of the fact that the person we think we
are, here and now, is at best an imposter and a
stranger. Thomas Merton, 1961
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive
something better than myself I cannot be easy
unless I am striving to bring it into existence
or clearing the way for it. That is the law of
my life. That is the working within me of Lifes
incessant aspiration to higher organization,
wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and
clearer self understanding. George Bernard
Shaw, 1903
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Only those who have helped themselves know how to
help others, and to respect their right to help
themselves George Bernard Shaw, 1891
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We are here to help each other get through this
thing, whatever it is. Mark Vonnegut,1997
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Care is a special relationship characterized by
consent rather than control. Therefore, its
auspices are individual and associational. For
those who need care, we must recognize the
community as the appropriate social tool.
John McKnight, 1995
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If you have come to help me, you are wasting
your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is
bound to mine, let us work together. Aborigi
nal Woman
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Nobodys free until everybodys free. Fannie
Lou Hamer
Illustration by Harvey Chan, Courtesy Southern
Poverty Law Center