ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the work of intentional leadership through the activity of leading a wakeful life ("I woke up!"). The theme of living an awakened life is a theme that has rhymed throughout differing traditions of thinking and belief. For a social analyst like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it was a question of waking up to the work of confronting the familiar and the unfamiliar by integrating the tension between self and society through an investigation of the relationship between self and society and vice versa. In the middle of the irreversibility of the consequences of actions that have been done against them, or in the middle of conditions that are outside one's control, we saw, through the lives of four individuals: Robert Waisman, Viktor Frankl, Jimmy Greene, and Lauren Hill, their capacity to wake up to the power of human agency in responding to those types of conditions and the impact of their responses.
