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Posted on October 31, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

This is central to a couple papers I am working on while I take my break from actively blogging this week. Silence is the space where things happen for us.

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Silence is rich. It is dark and viscous and it flows on waves of nothingness.  Silence begs to be filled and filled it must be. It is lonely and demanding and chill to the touch but it tastes smooth like the breeze. Silence is an opulent black pearl and one of the rarest gems on Earth.

There is a simple profoundness that can be found in the absence of sound. The emptiness that silence provides often gives rise to thought–the deep kind. The sort that give birth to leaps of logic and flights of the imagination. Silence is the canvas on which beautiful art can be created. It sits and waits patiently.

Silence isn’t in a hurry. It doesn’t need to explain itself or impress anyone or anything. It just is. It is the essence of cool. 

I love silence. I crave it even. It is sorely needed in this…

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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 ResearchGate

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  2. Strawberryindigo's avatar Strawberryindigo | October 31, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    Thank you for reblogging this. I am honored.

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  3. valeriedavies's avatar valeriedavies | November 1, 2013 at 4:38 am

    Silence is one of my favourite things… hence no radio, stereo, Tv, or idle chat…
    and then silence becomes so many things….as this beautiful post explains so perfectly….

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  4. pleisbilongtumi's avatar pleisbilongtumi | November 1, 2013 at 6:56 am

    This is a great post!, Ivon. It is so lonely without sound – It has been long enough I didn’t visit your blog and I thought you were silence. Best regards for you and yours.

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  5. lvsrao's avatar lvsrao | November 2, 2013 at 11:14 am

    Inspiring post. Thank you for sharing.

    If there is no stillness,
    there is no silence.
    If there is no silence,
    there is no insight.
    If there is no insight,
    there is no clarity

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  6. lizabif's avatar elizabeth | November 6, 2013 at 5:22 am

    I rarely have the tv or music on when I am home alone. I prefer silence/quiet. As Lvsrao said, no stillness, no silence, no insight. 🙂

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