Sometimes, it is the willingness to let go just a little that makes all the difference in the world. It is flying a kite and releasing some string to stretch upwards.

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“Let out a little more string on your kite.” (Alan Cohen)

What, now?

Ease

bound wound

gripping

 for dear life

so tightly

 taut

nearly snapping string

me

tangled, twisted knot?

If you

just you

take one breath

one

perhaps

on this sun-kissed breeze of possibility

you could

lift

 lilt

like your long ago smile.

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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. Wow, Ivon. My deep gratitude to you for reblogging this. After a very rocky ten days, I am deeply touched, moved to tears actually, by your kindness. May your path be sprinkled with joy…..Hugs from me

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  2. Merci a toi! Tres gentil!

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  3. I am glad you re-blog this so true and love the way they did the design of the poem how the world changed just like their are released

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  4. As always…this is a fantastic post – I am amazed to see how you pick up all these wonderful thoughts from all over and share it with your followers- am deeply touched..!

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  5. I exerted efforts to read your poem.
    But regrettably I couldn’t feel empathy for it, because my language ability is a little.

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  6. Letting go is something we could all learn to do more often.

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  7. What a magnificent poem..it soars

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