Connecting people, organizations, and communities with what matters

The Center for Ethical Leadership is the pioneering ethical leadership organization in the Pacific Northwest, building collective leadership capacity for those advancing the common good around the country.  We are organized around the question:  What kind of leadership does the common good need at this time in this place?

We cultivate leaders who:

• Create Gracious Space as a tool for change.
• Put their values in action to serve the common good.
• Bring people together, across boundaries, to form
   Click HERE to download the Center's Core Values Assessment for individuals.
  collective leadership.
• Ask compelling questions to initiate change that matters.

** NEW ** Gracious Space Blog

Post #4 - Gracious Space and Nonviolent Communication - by Karma Ruder

Recently I had the opportunity to explore the way that Nonviolent Communication (NVC) fits with Gracious Space through a day of training by the Freedom Project.  The Freedom Project brings NVC training into prisons in the State of Washington.