Patrick Boland

Featuring interviews with world-renowned leaders, from Richard Rohr (Founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation) to Margaret Wheatley (leadership consultant and author of Leadership and the New Science) to Matthew McCarthy (former CEO of Ben & Jerry’s), The Contemplative Leader provides a framework for understanding how best to connect within and with those whom we lead. In The Contemplative Leader, leadership consultant, psychotherapist, and executive coach Patrick Boland combines leadership anecdotes, research and models with reflective questions and practical contemplative practices to outline: How to integrate your Whole Self into daily decision-making, influencing, and strategising, A redefinition and re-envisioning of leadership as something that takes account of the breadth of human experience, How to lead from a place of non-attached, contemplative presence. Whether you are a seasoned leader in need of a reset to connect with what’s most important, new to leadership and looking for some 'soul' work to do to develop your influence, or just looking to integrate contemplative practices into your active roles in work, family, and religious life, The Contemplative Leader is an essential guide to practicing thoughtful leadership and contributing to meaningful change where it matters most to you.

In this companion to The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr and Patrick Boland offer forty reflections and practices exploring what it means to live "in Christ." In his landmark book The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr articulated a transformative view of what it means to recognize Jesus as "Christ"--as a portrait of God's constant, unfolding work in the world. Now, in partnership with Patrick Boland, a psychotherapist and member of Rohr's Center for Action and Contemplation community, he invites readers to engage with the themes of the book through spiritual practice. Each reflection in this book draws on a key passage of The Universal Christ, paired with prayers, journal prompts, and embodied exercises that invite readers into a more personal encounter with the truth that the presence and compassion of the Christ are in every thing. Whether read daily for the season of Lent or explored over the course of a year, Every Thing Is Sacred is a hope-filled journey into the love at the heart of all things.