Live in Wonder.
The world is a place of wonder. It is poetry in its most indefinable ways and that is why we need pauses between the words. It is in those pauses that the wonder soaks in and we can live in wonder. If the world had no spaces and only noise, we would be overwhelmed. The spaces are an inviting into the most precious relationships we can possibly have with the world, those we share the world, and all matter that matters.
When we pause and listen in the stillness and quiet, we are present to all that is holy and real. The world is made whole in those moments.
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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 and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Teacher as Transformer 
Yes! 🙂
Pauses instead of judgments
That is so true Marty.
Indeed!! Thank you for sharing your insights, Ivon!
You are welcome Amy.
all I need now is a break in the action!
That is one of the challenges. We get so busy we cannot see the forest for the trees.
That’s exactly why I climb hills and mountains.
I came across a quote today on your blog which makes sense in the context of trying to see the whole: “A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him and leaving something of himself upon it” Martin Conway.
Whatever we endeavour in life changes us.
And I try to visit this place of whole, as often as possible.
It is a hard place to visit. There always seems to be a hole in the whole.
True, very true. And sometimes I fail to see those holes. Maybe that’s a good things.
It might be at times.
Ivon,
This reaches me and moves me. Thank You
You are welcome John.
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
SOOOO….SLOW DOWN AND ENJOY THE SPACES!!!!! 🙂
Thank you for re-blogging and the comment Jonathan.
Thank you for re-blogging and the comment Jonathan.