This is an incredible post with beautiful imagery and a message for each us to enter the day with.
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 ResearchGate13 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
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Lovely. I’ll check out the Tracie Louise Photography site. Thanks for sharing this peaceful post.
You are welcome Lori. I suspect you will enjoy Tracie’s site. She is a wonderful photographer.
Schönes Video.
Gruß, Wolfgang
My focus word this year is peace so I especially appreciate the additional links – thank you.
No problem Laurie; you are welcome. It is such a worthy focus and way to live.
What I needed for today, Ivon. Really, a lovely post.
I am glad you liked it and it fit with the need today.
Nice reading about you.
Thanks. for visiting my blog Ajaytao2010@wordpress.com. Browse through the category sections, I feel you may definitely find something of your interest.
Beautiful post Ivon, the words matched the pictures, and they were so heartfelt and inspiring… thank you
You are welcome Valerie. Thank you.
Loved it. Shine our light!
We need to. It will help to bring peace and love to a world desperately in need of them.