Kathy took these panoramic pictures the first day we drove to Waterton. I often wonder about making sense of life without a fuller view. It is the stepping back that might allow the ‘hole in the whole’ to fade and show a panoramic view of life. Even at that, the life’s complexity creates mystery of and allows the ‘holes to make sense in the whole.’
Life
Still shot
One image at a time
Parsed and fits my definition.
Life
A broad view
Weaves a web without design
Fuller, richer, yet indefinable.
Reflection
Quilts life whole
Bound together moment by moment
Paradox of ragged and seamless.
Shared
Without losing self
Bound together by our commonness
Adhere disparate parts into one.
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 
Life…parsed – what a lovely way to describe how we struggle to fit new information with the old, to find and achieve balance in the whole. Nice.
Beautiful! Photo and words, suddenly made my day a little better, thanks!
I appreciate the comment and the idea I can make someone’s life a little better. Thank you.
Ivon
Ivon, I’ve nominated you for The One Lovely Blog Award. See award @ http://davidkanigan.com/2012/08/15/610am-and-inspired/. I love your work. Congratulations. Dave
Thank you. I appreciate the kind words.
Ivon
I want to to thank you for this excellent read!! I absolutely loved every bit of it. I have you bookmarked to look at new things you post…|
Thank you for the thoughtful comment and for stopping by. I look forward to hearing from you again.
I appreciate your thoughtful take on how to look at life. It makes me stand back and look at the big picture rather than the usual scratch for the best punchline. Keep the reflective good advice coming!
Thank you for the lovely comment.