I am preparing for a trip to Bainbridge and a retreat. This is part of a Leadership Academy presented by the Centre for Courage and Renewal. This is the second part of the process and it has been truly rewarding as I find my way on this journey called life with companions here at home, from all over North America and, sometimes, beyond.
Beloved other
An invitation,
For carried alone
Troubles weight us down
Each step, a struggle.
But, lightened,
Grow strong together
Backs straighten–
Shoulders square–
Heads held high.
Journey together,
Loads shared
Trust born
Become companions
Break bread together.
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 
Have a wonderful time. I look forward to hearing about it!
I am looking forward to sharing.
Yes, can’t wait to hear what you learn. Great poem. Happy travels!!
Thank you. Last spring’s retreat was a threshold time so I am hoping for much the same.
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Thank you for the kindness.
All joy for you on the Retreat, Ivon. I hope very much to make a similar Retreat with CCandR some glad day. Like you, I think, I have found Parker Palmer to be a marvellous and extra-ordinary inspiration. There’s hope for a world in which such men – and such “gathering facilities” as CCandR exist. I’ll look forward to hearing how you get along. Thanks, as ever, for our contact. I think of you daily as I read Fr Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation. This past week has been particularly helpful to me and I shall be placing an order for his new book! 🙂 PS – I love your thoughtful poetry …
Thank you for the kind words Simon. I too have found much in the writings of Father Richard the last few days. I look forward to sharing the next part of the journey and the retreat.
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