Our Core Values
Learning: Creating and sustaining high achievement in our lives is not a one-shot deal. It is an evolutionary process that calls for the cultivation of ongoing curiosity that supports both stability and development. The ongoing blend of patience, discernment, practice, a learning attitude, and cumulative experience is a foundational element that sustains the journey of unprecedented high achievement.
Dignity: We at Perczek assume that we are more than what we have and what we do. In addition to having and doing, we have a life that is just as real and this is our being. When we gather the courage to look within and realize that we are more than what our eyes see, we are able to relate to ourselves with freedom and compassion, to others with respect and integrity, and to our situations with curiosity and flow. This relationship with life we call living in dignity.
Integrity: Being able to move from where we are to where we aspire to be requires the capacity for seeing what is, accepting it, and then being able to shift our patterns along the way with increased flexibility. To develop this capacity for observation, acceptance, and flexibility, rigor is essential. When we feel stable as we freely accept our light (gifts) as well as our darkness (shadows), we are able to relate to the people and situations in our lives without having to rely on them to feel secure. This is what we refer to as integrity.
Community: Our work is grounded in making the greatest difference for the highest purpose, by which we mean the capacity to act consistently for the sake of the highest good of others and society’s growth. Our work with high achieving individuals, teams, and communities stretches us to continually learn to act with compassion, respect, and the deep knowing that we are in this together. At its core, our work is offered to support people to live purposefully, meaningfully, and mindfully toward making the greatest contribution possible to society and succeeding generations.
Humility: For people whose vocation is inspiring self and others to achieve the unprecedented for a greater good, humility is needed to sustain our wholehearted engagement even when the circumstances we are facing get us down to our knees—when we go for the unprecedented, we get to face the parts of ourselves we would rather not see; the acceptance of these parts calls for a humility that can’t be artificially made up.
