I am I am I

Posted on July 22, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

This beautiful poem requires little explanation. Whatever I live through. I end up back at I.

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I am IWe think these words were found in a Mennonite Church in Canada. This layout is by Janet Brewin – thanks to her “calligraphy” (my description) or her “neat handwriting” (her self-effacing description). They were words my mother treasured and which were used at her funeral.

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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. Books & Art - Spirit & Soul - Lesley Fletcher's avatar Books & Art - Spirit & Soul - Lesley Fletcher | July 22, 2013 at 4:54 pm

    Yes Ivon, what a simple way of putting it. Thanks for posting this gem.

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  2. Dom DiFrancesco's avatar Dom DiFrancesco | July 22, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    Just beautiful Ivon, thank you so much for sharing it.

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  4. Vicki's avatar Vicki (from Victoria A Photography) | July 23, 2013 at 12:57 am

    Wonderful words – thanks for sharing.

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  5. beebeesworld's avatar beebeesworld | July 23, 2013 at 1:09 am

    Interesting piece of history…beebee

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  6. Dana Young's avatar Dana Young | July 24, 2013 at 6:38 pm

    Beautiful and moving. Thank you for sharing – I will reblog! 🙂

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  7. Dana Young's avatar Dana Young | July 24, 2013 at 6:39 pm

    Reblogged this on A life itself and commented:
    Beautiful – speaks to the richness of our human experience and the opportunities for spiritual abiding.

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  8. Marian's avatar Marian | August 3, 2013 at 8:46 am

    Love it, Ivon; thanks so much for sharing!

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