This has been an incredibly difficult and challenging lesson to learn for me over the years. I needed to accept, forgive, and love myself. Loving myself responsibly makes me a better gift for others. I had the opportunity to hear Marianne Williamson present and it was truly inspirational.
It Begins Within
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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 ResearchGate13 responses »
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Bless your heart for sharing this along Ivon! I am honored to have this post featured on your wonderful blog. Thank you, from a fellow fan of Marianne Williamson :). Hugs, Gina
Thank you and you are welcome Gina. Hugs back.
I couldn’t agree more with Marianne Williamson. “…Love your neighbor as yourself..” biblical too…:)
What a wise and compassionate teacher Marianne Williamson is and what a wonderful blog you have created. Thank you, Nikki
Thank you for stopping and commenting Nikki. We need teachers like Marianne Williamson and others in this day and age.
I agree with you. Maybe if we all keep talking, writing and sharing our purpose and commitment to each other and the planet then it will catch on and become the norm and dare I say, cool?
I really enjoy reading your blog, so thanks for spreading the word.
Nikki
I agree. Conversation and hospitality are at the heart of compassion.
I think loving ourselves is one of the hardest thing to do. We know so much about ourselves. 🙂
And at the same time perhaps we know so little about ourselves. It is a paradox of life.
Hmm, I’ve never thought of that Ivon.
Good post, good read.
YES, LOVING OURSELVES RESPO0NSIBLY SURE HELPS
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