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Posted on January 11, 2016 by ivonprefontaine

I am back. I will take time and engage slowly. I have had a productive several months with writing and reading. My dissertationi went in to the committee last night and I am getting ready for my research proposal defense in the next month or so.

It is important to live in the moment which is the only time we can exist.

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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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  1. powerpointgreetje | January 11, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    welcome back Ivon, greetings Greetje

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  2. Foghorn The IKonoclast | January 11, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    Best of luck in the doctoral program program. Best wishes in regards to teaching as a Phd.

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  3. russtowne | January 11, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    Welcome back, Ivon! I was delighted to see you post show up in my email feed. I wish you much continued success with your dissertation and life.

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  4. Catherine Johnson | January 11, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    Welcome back! Best wishes with your studies.

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  6. cindy knoke | January 11, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    Wonderful to hear from you! Wondered where you went. Best of luck with the dissertation.

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  7. Healing Grief | January 11, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    Happy New Year Ivon and welcome back. 🙂

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  9. Val Boyko | January 11, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    So happy to see you here again!
    And with Rumi.
    ❤️

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  11. emilievardaman | January 11, 2016 at 11:36 pm

    Glad to see you again, Ivon! You’ve done SO much work!

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  12. maskednative | January 11, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    Good to see you posting again. Good luck with everything.

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  13. Gypsy Bev | January 12, 2016 at 1:49 am

    Welcome back! Your posts are very meaningful.

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  15. Carrie | January 12, 2016 at 11:32 am

    Welcome back…and best wishes.

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  16. RoSy | January 22, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    Happy New Year & welcome back!
    {Hugs}

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