More and more, I think this is true. We need to be in relationship in this world with others and the world we live in.
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 ResearchGate12 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
This is so true. In fact, just last night, my daughter was talking about how nice it is to be able to share her thoughts and feelings with someone who actually listened to her in silence, rather than interrupting her and offering her advice she never asked for and didn’t want. This post seems to be in agreement with her, and I think that is awesome. It resonates very deeply with me, too – on several different levels. Thank you for sharing it, Ivon.
You are welcome Holly.
Ein schönes Wochenende wünschen wir.
Gruß, Wolfgang
I am sure everyone needs a listening ear at some point in life.
I know I do more than just occasionally.
I know I agree with that statement.
Just beautiful Ivon no more words needed…!
So true – sometimes our greatest gift is merely being present 🙂
It is so important in our lives and the lives of others.
🙂
Yes..absolutely.Understanding is much more valuable than giving advice because in order to understand you need to have the emotional intelligence to put yourself in their shoes and sadly ,that remains unachievable.
Well said Swati.