Perspective helps us to see the new lands with new eyes. We have always lived in this world and the ordinary can be transformed into the extraordinary. Thank you Ajay for a beautiful image and quote from Thoreau.
Beautiful Swan Feathers – Henry David Thoreau
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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 ResearchGate12 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
It IS all perception. Just posted something related to this notion (MindBody, The Power of Belief).
There is a much stronger link between the mind and the body than science has agreed to. Slowly, with better research some of the concepts that wisdom traditions have held for centuries seems to be provable with science.
It is a good post with a great photo and quote
Thank you Alastair. It was too beautiful to pass up.
I can imagine
Beautiful thought!
It was too beautiful to pass.
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Explicit post.The picture and the words are a lesson to learn from.Thank you for stopping by.Have a great day.Jalal
You are welcome Jalal.
both matter
They are like a beautiful symphony that way as they come together in harmony,