When I posted The Panther, these musings began to circulate and percolate. They were part of that post and they kept resonating in ways that were difficult to ignore. More often than not, humans are the designers of their cages. We struggle to set aside the desires and ego that form the bars. Setting these aside, is a liberating process.
Mindlessly,
I build these cages,
Bars more imagined, than real;
Yet, impenetrable.
I look deep,
I find an inner source;
Here, power and beauty
In restful communion.
Here, the ego steps aside,
I let go;
Bars melt,
The cage is no more.
No longer, a captive of my making,
I walk–
The meadow endless;
Yet, much revealed in this place.
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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 and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Teacher as Transformer 
Nice poem, good work Sir.
Thank you.
🙂 LL=large like & congrats… Oh, at first reading, I thought the Love Panther… 😉
http://myvirtualplayground.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/la-tendresse-du-jour-la-panthere-de-lamour/
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bonne fin de semaine, tonnes d’inspiration et amicales pensées… cheers, Mélanie
Merci Melanie.
In addition to cages far to often we may nail ourselves to a cross of our own fabrication.
That we do Carl. We allow other people, at least in our minds, to deny what is within our control.
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OPENING THE DOORS OF OUR MINDS! 🙂