The short Rumi verse is accompanied by a wonderful picture. The trees blend with the sky and clouds.
My soul is from elsewhere,
I’m sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.
-Rumi
Monday Musings: Elsewhere
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In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms. I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders. I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs. I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry. I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry. I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.11 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
Rumi maybe speaking of a place where the ego is non existent, a place reached by traveling the road less traveled.
Our soul is from the expansive side of our mind, a place few reach and not for long in a whole lifetime.
Maybe where Rumi speaks his soul being.
That is an astute observation Marty. Once we let go of the ego and what it seeks, we can join our soul in that space.
Astute. Maybe. It becomes obvious when you empty the mind and let go
That is the trick for sure and it is hard work.
That is a judgment
It is actually the most special place I visit.
It gets easier when the mind finally quits doing back flips and empties easily
I love that final sentence. When the mind finally quits doing back flips.
Most would agree it is hard.
I have made a model that takes a lot,of the difficulty away from practicing.
It is hard because the brain likes to be go fast, be involved in complex mental challenges.
Here is a post addressing why meditation/Mindfulness seems so hard.
http://ptsdawayout.com/2015/03/25/most-people-think-mindfulnessmeditation-is-very-difficult-hard-mundane-maybe-to-simple-to-contain-that-kind-of-power/#comment-68578
Always thought provoking Ivon, thanks for the dialogue.
You are welcome Marty. I enjoy it. Your blog and comments provide great insight.
I lesrn many things from your insight also
So beautiful
It is.