Courageous Leadership: Principle-Centered

Leadership

Presented By Stephen Pocklington, CRE, ITE

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 mind’s 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 isn’t the same as Optimism:

• Hope isn’t 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 isn’t clean or tidy. Honest hope has an edge. It’s messy.

It requires that we let go of pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence

that our sailing will be smooth. It’s 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 Life’s 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.Aboriginal Woman

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Nobody’s free until

everybody’s free.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Illustration by Harvey Chan, Courtesy Southern Poverty Law Center