Posted on March 26, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

The importance of being a good listener and speaker often goes unnoticed. We need to be fully present in both cases to welcome others into our moment and presence. Thank you to Russ at A Grateful Man for re-blogging first and bring this beautiful sentiment from Misifusa to me.

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Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you.

Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

I love to feel like I can make a difference in someone else’s day and I love when my day is changed for the better by someone else, don’t you?  I think the central piece that we forget sometimes is that we are all connected and in reconnecting with others through our conversations, it elevates our vibrations and makes for a significant change for the better.  Does this make sense to you?

Hold close in your heart those with whom you speak who lift you up.

I was blessed to spend some quality time with my sister AAngel on Sunday morning.  We shared some coffee time before our households emerged from their sleepy cocoons.  It’s rare that we have any time to ourselves to just connect…

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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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  2. Dear Human's avatar The Other Side of Ugly - Letters From A Human Angel | March 26, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    Thanks for sharing this. Two very important traits. Sheri

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  3. misifusa's avatar The Presents of Presence | March 26, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    Ivon ~ I’m honored that you reblogged my post. Truly. Thank you!

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  5. russtowne's avatar russtowne | March 27, 2013 at 3:46 am

    Thank you for the hat-tip, Ivon, even though Misifusa did all the work. I’m glad that you let your readers know it came from her. Thank you for being a thoughtful blogger and reblogger.

    Russ

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  6. Amy's avatar Amy | March 27, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Thank you for sharing, Ivon!

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  7. lvsrao's avatar lvsrao | March 31, 2013 at 10:24 am

    Impressive. Excellent wording. Thank you for sharing.

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