Thomas Merton is one of my favourite authors and spiritual thinkers. He offered a radical definition of violence. This sounds like the opposite of multi-tasking, single-tasking. I hope I can do better as I move forward and take time to listen to the inner teacher and its wisdom.
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About ivonprefontaine
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, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
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Teacher as Transformer 
All I can say is WOW! I need this reminder, as most of us do.
We rarely ever think about the violence of busyness and its impact on us. I needed the reminder too.
I am glad to be of service in some small way.
My teacher has referred to this as “Crimes against Nature” – forcing ourselves to over-do over-stimulate over-think. Self-importance and ego running rampant. Completely lost touch with Nature. So hard to bring it down and be present. Meditation should be the law for us in this day and age! 😉 Thank you for the reminder!
You are welcome. Thank you for a wonderful comment.
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Nice post. “Take time to listen to the Inner Teacher and it’s Wisdom” — is called Meditation in other words, I feel.
Wishing you fruitful and meaningful 2019.
Thank you Lvsrao. Take care and have a wonderful 2019.
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