Compassion Costs Nothing

Posted on June 12, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

Here is a wonderful message to begin the day.

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Compassion Costs Nothing

Compassion is free. To have empathy, sympathy or understanding for someone else’s plight costs you nothing but it may be invaluable to them. We all need a helping hand, kind word or helpful advice from time to time. Doesn’t it mean the world to you when someone spreads a little cheer during those times when you feel down and out? Be freely compassionate to someone whenever given the opportunity because, you never know when your own time of sorrow will come.

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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. mimijk's avatar mimijk | June 12, 2013 at 1:05 pm

    It is a wonderful message to begin the day and to carry along way into the evening.

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  2. Tom Rapsas's avatar Tom Rapsas | June 12, 2013 at 1:13 pm

    An excellent reminder, thanks.

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  3. reece713's avatar Frank | June 12, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    Words to live by.
    Peace!!!

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  4. Naomi Baltuck's avatar Naomi Baltuck | June 12, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Yes, and good words cost no more than bad. Great post, Ivon.

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  5. russtowne's avatar russtowne | June 12, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    “To have empathy, sympathy or understanding for someone else’s plight costs you nothing but it may be invaluable to them.”

    I agree, and believe it is invaluable to the giver of empathy, sympathy or understanding too.

    Thank you for the reminder, Ivon and Rascoe.

    Russ

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  6. Jonathan Caswell's avatar Jonathan Caswell | June 12, 2013 at 11:51 pm

    But is worth everything to those who receive it! 🙂

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  7. Jonathan Caswell's avatar Jonathan Caswell | June 12, 2013 at 11:52 pm

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    RELATIVELY FREE TO GIVE—PRICELESS TO RECEIVE!!!!!

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  9. Otrazhenie's avatar Otrazhenie | June 13, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Thank you for all your inspirational and insightful posts. Glad that we met in the blogosphere.

    I would like to share with you an Inner Peace Award. You can find out more about this award at http://otrazhenie.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/inner-peace-award/

    I wish you always stay as you are and never lose your inner peace.

    Otrazhenie 🙂

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  10. Esssellle - Swati Lahiri's avatar Esssellle - Swati Lahiri | June 14, 2013 at 11:02 am

    Another sublime thought ! Thanks ..

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