This blog often combines a beautiful piece of visual imagery alone with a short haiku that brings clarity. If I practice long enough and feel encouraged, I grow as a person. Several posts this morning in my email were about taking a breath and just pausing in the moment. Synchronicity plays a vital role in life. I only have to stop and realize it.
encouragement
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 ResearchGate18 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
Awwwwww……that tiny fawn is sooooo cute.
He is and the media enhanced it.
For you:
This is a paperback book.
Very pleasant, the title said:
Head up particularly comforting.
Quote:
Patience is the sister of hope and the mother of serenity.
Or:
Starlight is reflected only in a quiet pond.
Sincerely Andrea and many hugs.
http://andreasch45.WordPress.com/2013/02/26/eintaschentuch-IM-Buch/
Thank you for the beautiful quotes and the wish at the end Andrea.
Good morning
so it is exactly.Have a nice Tag.Herzlichst Andrea
SO sweet! Thanks for sharing and inspiring, Ivon.
You are welcome Naomi.
Precious!
Thank you.
Beautiful and encouraging. 🙂
Thank you Elizabeth.
Nice! What a darling video. 🙂
The video adds so much to the poem.
Yes, it does! 🙂 Seeing always adds a lot. 🙂 I guess that’s why we love movies! 🙂
Precious!
It is a great visual with a great poem.
Great. In fact Precious.
Thank you Lvsrao.