If each day, I did small things to be a better peacemaker, healer, restorer, lover and tell stories that make the world better and healthier it could make a small and incremental difference.

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"The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds."<br />https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dalai-Lama-Foundation/53912657815
‎”The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”
~Dalai Lama~
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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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  1. Spoken so eloquently by the Dalai Lama!

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  2. Such a simple commitment – if we each made it, can you imagine what the world might become?

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  3. We can all do this, one at a time.

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  4. How true!

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  5. It is no coincidence that Apollo was both the god of healing and the god of poetry and music.

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  6. Love and generosity, tolerance and respect are the keys of our life… Dalai-Lama comes to France twice a year, his French interpreter-translator for about 40 years has been an ex-scientist, Matthieu Ricard who quit everything and became a Tibetan monk… Last year, he was considered to be the happiest man on Earth! 🙂
    http://www.matthieuricard.org/index.php/blog/

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  7. account closed's avatar petit4chocolatier

    Words of wisdom my friend 🙂

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