How often have I held onto something that was not good and healthy for me?
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 ResearchGate22 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
Great question…
Thank you Mimi.
This is a good question that we should ask ourselves a few times a day… Thank you for sharing the quote, Ivon!
You are welcome Amy.
I’ve done this far too many times in my life. Trying to let go is one of the greatest struggles that one can pursue, but if successful is well worth the effort.
You are so right on both counts Dom.
Mostly all the time. For me that is..
You are not alone.
I have fallen into that trap.
I think we all do. I certainly have as well.
Constant battle.
It is.
Until l found inner peace and contentment after a life changing calamity. Great question. Food for thought!
Thank you Shashi. I find it is in my storms that I find that peace.
Can’t argue with profound logic! ☼
Profound indeed!
There are teachings that are timeless.
I agree.
This is certainly a timely message. Battling this one today.
I am learning, after many years, this too shall pass. Messages of wisdom and knowing we are not in it alone really helps. Take care Yaz.
Great quote!
I’ve gotten sick on my own poison before … and refuse to do it anymore!
Thanks for sharing this —
You are welcome Jen.