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
Teacher as Transformer 
The moment is the only place to live!
It is. It is also so difficult to stay there.
From personal experience I agree with you.
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Thank you I am honoured.
You are very welcome. Enjoy it.
Dear Ivon,
This is to tell you what an inspiration your blog has been to me. I am nominating you for “The Very Inspiring Blogger Award.” Please go to my blog talesalongtheway.com/nominating four very inspiring blogger awards/ for the details. It will be posted as soon as I notify my four nominees. . I hope you will accept and continue to inspire all who read your blog.
Smiles. . . . .namaste. . . Anne
Thank you Anne on many levels. I am honoured. Take care and have a wonderful day.
Oh to be always in the moment. Especially when there’s work that needs done. 🙂
It seems like such a simple thing, but is so hard particularly in the heat of the moment.
Wise words of wisdom indeed.
I try to live in the Moment myself. Not always easy, but it’s a darn sight better that living in the past.
Or the fantastic future. You are so right Vicki. It is a hard thing to do, but when we just be it is worth it.
I like Maya Angelou and am glad that she was an Ohioan for awhile, she spoke up in Oberlin at the University and I think has family in Lorain. I am from that “neck of the woods.” Was she the Poet Laureate for Bill Clinton? Just amazing woman, like you said, gentle words and great reminders.
I believe she was a Poet Laureate. Thank you for the wonderful comment.
I must say that it is easier said than done because our present constitutes a bit of the past and a tad bit of the future- ah- maybe it’s all in the mind..thanks..
You are so right Swati. We do move easily from this moment to ruminating on the past or planning the future.