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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Teacher as Transformer 
The same to you, Ivon!
Thank you Naomi.
Peace Ivon – Namaste.
And Namaste to you, as well.
You too Ivon! It sure is a great message 🙂
Thank you Maryanne.
When I went to Ghana, my friends sent me email messages signed, “Peace and love always”. After my boyfriend and I broke up, this didn’t change. I love that. We are like brother and sister now, and I think this intention helped keep us close, while allowing change. Perfect message. Thank you
You are welcome Joan. That is a beautiful story.
I wish the same for you..
To you, too. Thank you, Ivon!
You are welcome Amy.
Thanks for the great message – hope Love & Peace fill your day too.
Life is too short to be filled with negative emotions.
(now if only all those at war would fill their hearts with positive emotions and loving kindness………….).
The bracketed part would be so great.
This is something we really need during current times when everyone most of the people seem to be so distraught that they themselves do not know what they seek..Amen ! Thanks a bunch,Ivon !
You are welcome Swati.
Well said. Thank you
You are welcome Lvsrao.