Wisdom.
Rumi‘s poetry is profound. It resonates down through the centuries carrying deep messages that still offer insight and wisdom.
When we need wisdom, we only have to stop, wait for silence, and allow silence to speak its words. Turning inwards, being mindful of what the silence speaks provides the wisdom when needed.
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
Teacher as Transformer 
It is very difficult for me to get to that silent place. I have a brain that zooms all about. But I’m working on it!
I find it is hard work, as well.
Listen to the rain 🙂
It can say a lot when we do.
Wisdom is a favorite theme. I see it as the “mindful” moment; observing all along.
That is a great analogy Maria.
I couldn’t agree more. The older I get, the more silence I seek.
I find getting older the same way.
Finding that stillness of mind can be hard for me at times, but when it happens it can be a wonderful thing.
The most challenging things are the most rewarding.
Seems like Utopia to me..but them I am always striving hard to be there..
It is a good direction to move in.
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PROFOUND INDEED!
Thank you Jonathan.