One Lovely Blog Award

Posted on August 16, 2012 by ivonprefontaine

David nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award.

Thank you to David at Lead. Learn. Live for acknowledging my blog. I enjoy his sense of humour and advice he shares.

This morning, when I got in the car The Sound of Sunshine was playing (Michael Franti is a wonderful singer/songwriter) and I felt energized. Just like a good song, I receive a gift each day from blogs I follow.

Here are seven facts about me.

(1) I’m a terrible swimmer (I stole this from David. Swimming is an alternative to drowning for me).

(2) My favourite breakfast as a hockey player was warm beer and cold pizza.

(3) I am a goalie in hockey which explains some of my quirky behaviour.

(4) I watch Simpson reruns and learn something new each time.

(5) Teaching is my second career.

(6) I was a banker in my first career.

(7) Kathy and I met in Prince George BC, but were born in Alberta. We moved to find each other.

I mentioned I struggle with this rule on an earlier post. I follow amazing blogs and feel I am leaving someone out. I nominate the following for One Lovely Blog Award.

To accept the award, the rules are:

  1. Link back to the person who nominated you
  2. Post the award image to your page.  (Here’s the Link)
  3. Tell seven facts about yourself
  4. Nominate 10 other blogs
  5. Let them know they are nominated

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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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  1. Live & Learn's avatar David Kanigan | August 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    Warm beer…hmmm. You are standing alone on this one Ivon. Great post. Dave

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  2. Live & Learn's avatar David Kanigan | August 16, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    Goalie! Enough said. Completely get it now… 🙂

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  3. mimijk's avatar mimijk | August 16, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    A goalie and a banker? That’s a first! Great post Ivon and congratulations – you truly are a lovely blogger!!

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  4. melodylowes's avatar melodylowes | August 17, 2012 at 6:45 am

    You’re really racking these up! Keep on sharing your thoughts, Ivon…

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  5. Russel Ray Photos's avatar Russel Ray Photos | August 17, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Yeah! Yahoo! Yippee! & Congratulations! Now I’m off to click on your nominee links.

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  7. russtowne's avatar russtowne | August 20, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    “We moved to find each other.” I love it!
    Russ

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    • ivonprefontaine's avatar ivonprefontaine | August 21, 2012 at 2:22 am

      Kathy and I never underestimate the power of synchronicity. There are things that defy logic and explanation, love and faih are two of those things.

      Thank you for commenting Russ.

      Ivon

      Reply

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  9. inkspotsales's avatar futuredoll | August 28, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Thanks, once again for giving me new blogs to follow!

    Reply

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