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 
True. 🙂
Excellent, Ivon. Thank you.
You are welcome.
Looking forward to vicariously enjoying your journey !!!
I look forward to sharing some of the photos over the next few days.
yes, true
Amen!
I adore this! Because every word is true!~
I find considerable peace of mind and spirit when Kathy and I go for a hike in nature. I think we find ourselves there.
I agree, when we spend time with nature, it is a peace and calming adventure. Great down time for the soul to be rejuvenated with a love one!
A powerful post. Thank you for sharing this with us here.
You are welcome and thank you for stopping by.
I have to disagree, but that is my prerogative, I guess! I feel we are part of nature but to really enjoy nature is to go outside of ourselves, delve deeply into the places that are special gifts and become transformed by those gifts.
That is a very thoughtful comment and carries weight. Thank you for sharing.