It is in the ordinary we find the extraordinary – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”–Austin O’Malley
Special thanks to our deliriously happy chipmunk visitor
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Wishes of joy to all!
harvesting happiness
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 ResearchGate17 responses »
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Teacher as Transformer 
Cute!
Thank you Catherine.
Explicit post. My regards.
Thank you jalal.
Wow, Ivon. Thank you so much for reblogging…and for commenting with the lovely and wise Thich Nhat Hanh quote. Yes, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary! Peace to you
You are welcome. The message was so clear it only took a few words. Peace to you. Thank you for the wonderful post.
That’s too adorable Ivon! Loved it!
Thank you.
O how good to be reminded the gloriousness of the ordinary. Thank-you for sharing such a poem.
You are welcome and thank you.
Lovely post Ivon, from the title ‘harvesting happiness’ to the last words by Thich Nhat Hahn
Thank you Valerie. Good to have you back.
Aye, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary for the attentive individual.
Well said Alex.
Good to be reminded of the important things in life. One of the benefits of growing older is that just about everything seems extraordinary. It is only a matter of paying attention and being still.
I agree with everything you said. Age has a way of slowing us down and taking note of what is around us.
Your comment quoted is really very appropriate.