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 
Beautifully brought out!
…And profound life lessons!
They do offer us great life lessons.
Fantastic!
Thank you.
Important for us to pas on to our young people: the idea that suffering and struggle shapes us into more complete human beings.
I agree. It is something that is missing and has been in decline for some time.
Absolutely, Ivon. Absolutely. Thanks for this and for your daily posts, always keenly read by me.
You are welcome Simon and thank you.
Just to say to you how much I appreciate your blogs and your presence!
THANK YOU!!!
Thank you. It is greatly appreciated.
U’re welcome: you know, I really love your blog! 🙂
Sensational post. The world is trying to deny those persons because it doesn’t want to acknowledge them .Even United Nation want to deny them the protection and the help they need.Thank you for liking my poem ( I wish you know ) warm regards.jalal
You are welcome. We need to give voice to all people.
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Fantastic..what profound thoughts and premises you have chosen to write- resonates with most of us and helps us relate to different perspectives so well. Keep up the good work !
Thank you Swati. I find something each day that someone has posted that resonates with me through and through. I am glad others find something in these as well.
I love the quote combined with the photo of that delicate short-lived beautiful flower being worn by a resilient long-lived beautiful woman. Eloquence!
Russ
I agree Russ. It is a beautiful picture that speaks volumes about a life fully lived.