These are seven great points to having a peaceful life.
7 Logics for Peaceful Living! – Pause
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 ResearchGate16 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
I need to repeat these daily!
Me too.
Wonderful! I’ve been so affected by news stories recently, this is very calming.
I am glad you found it calming and useful right away in that respect.
I will definitely be printing this out, thank you Ivon.
You are welcome Catherine.
yes
Some things are just universal.
I totally agree with not letting your past spoil your present. We need to learn to forgive ourselves and others and move on to better and brighter days!
Carolyn, letting go and forgiving our self is a very hard thing to do, but it a prerequisite to forgiving others. We need daily reminders.
Such a wealth of advice in these words, they are just wonderful.
Thank you Dom.
Excellent points to live by, Ivon.
I especially like the fifth one as it reminds me of the annoying habit of my Mother’s (of forever telling me what I can or can’t do because it wasn’t the ‘done’ thing and no one else would do it). And I……would reply with the words “It’s my life, not anyone else’s life”. I guess we were from entirely different generations and had different philosophies and approaches to life (in general).
We are all from different generations and yet carry much of the previous generation’s wisdom with us. I always said I would not sound like my parents. I have quite often done so and realized the role their wisdom played.
What is the source of the Seven logics for peaceful living….I see its from India but is it hindu?
curious
The closest I have is that it is attributed to an Indian saint, but it does not say that it is Hindu. You have made me curious now.