It has been raining here and I got a chance to walk home in it last night from class. There was a pretty spectacular light show at the same time. Nature is such an inspiring place.
Priceless therapy
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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 ResearchGate10 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
I don’t know where you are, but here in Dallas Texas, we have the weather like desert with no rain. Send some of the rain this way my friend…
I will try my best.
I find Nature the best therapy for both mind & body. I find it amazing how uplifting a walk in the Gardens can be. Some might say it’s the exercise getting the blood flowing and more oxygen to the brain, but I like to think it’s the sight of beauty all around (that heals).
Beauty is a great healer and is often overlooked.
Definitely, just sitting in peace with nature would do wonders for what ails you!
I find it slows me down and that is most helpful.
I agree; nature is a definite balm! 🙂 Nothing I like better than going for a walk outside in the mountains or the forest.
We can close our eyes and feel that as well. It is a beautiful image.
Nothing like a walk in nature! It’s like a magical thing that instantly makes you feel better 🙂
That is a great word to use for it: magical. Thank you for stopping, liking, and commenting Niki. It was appreciated.