I read comments today in response to yesterday’s post, Transformation, and found words emerging. They remind me of the unnecessary chase. I only need patience and life arrives in each moment, fully revealed in its extraordinary nature. Life is not a race or hunting trip in which I seek the biggest prize.
When I seek
When I chase
Am active
I fail.
Patience
When I sit
I need not seek
Life discovers me.
Found
I wait
Life arrives
I only need sit.
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
Teacher as Transformer 
Beautifully said. And yes I agree Ivon.
It amazes me often what comes along, when I have faith, trust, let go, allow and accept. J
It amazes me as well.
Yes Ivon, life does seem to arrive when there is unnecessary chasing! I find that in the stillness of time, during nonactive seeking, that is when the best of life happens! The ‘going nowhere fast’ life leaves us frazzled and exhausted. It helps to relax, be at peace in the present so we don’t fall into the trap of the proverbial ‘chasing the wind’. Thanks again for sharing these lovely inspirations with us! 🙂
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and insight.
This is so clever as it goes against the grain of what one usually reads – I always found the zen saying of ””Sitting quietly, doing nothing ,Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.” (Zenrin Kushû) an interesting one – not the same meaning,but again ‘against the grain’ for me.
Pirates have to work against the grain. I saw a line yesterday which basically said “a dead fish can go with the current. It takes realization to go against the current an live.”