Center for Creative Inquiry

Jack Petranker

Jack Petranker

Jack Petranker (he/him) is the founder of CCI and regularly offers courses and retreats. He is the author of When It Rains, Does Space Get Wet? (Dharma Publishing 2006), and has written numerous academic articles in consciousness studies, organizational change, political transformation, and the value of work as a spiritual practice. Jack holds an MA in political theory from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Yale Law School. He is also the Director of Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA.

Inquiry Comes First

When we fail to question the basic framework within which we are operating—when we do not even recognize that we could call it into question—we

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