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 
a quiet thinking post to read over my coffee..
Thank you for sharing
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I found it a great way to begin my morning as well. Take care.
Well said about happiness.
Thank you Shimon. Todd certainly found a great quote to share with us.
Is this true? Is the frenetic scientist or historian obsessed with their research to the exclusion of all else unhappy or so happy that nothing else matters? What about the saints that found bliss through torturing their bodies? Happiness can be the result of the qualities mentioned in the quotation but surely it is also so much more.
I agree Malcolm, but for those of us leading a regular daily life it probably is closer to the quotation. We seek the balance that comes from those qualities.
That’s true. Good point.
This sums it all up so beautifully. It talks about total equilibrium which is difficult but certainly not unattainable. The mind, heart and body should be in perfect sync in order for this to happen. Beautiful and inspiring words..Ivon
Thank you Swati. Todd posted a beautiful post.
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Very well said 🙂
Thank you Len.
Absolutely True.
It is. We need to find happiness in our lives in some form.
I just read an interesting blog about a man who spent decades pursuing happiness only to discover he was unhappier at the end than at the beginning. So he gave up searching and Voila! Happiness is a byproduct, not a goal. And that is what I believe Merton was saying after all.
It is a process and not an outcome. The more we focus on getting the less like it is to appear.
I like this a lot, Ivon.
I remember my masseusse in Perth said that balance is continual movement. You don’t stop still, you continually move to effect balance. This reminded me of that.
Thank you Noeleen. Life is such a beautiful dance and movement is required to remain in the rhythm.