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A Great Proverb About Food

Posted on February 16, 2016 by ivonprefontaine

When I read this, I was struck by the importance of the message for politicians. What does it mean to be rich? It is not about material wealth. I know people who have few material possessions and are happy to share what they have with me.

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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. johannisthinking@wordpresss.com | February 16, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    the “Poor” are always willing to share the little that they have…I guess it is all how a person defines “poor”—some rich people are very poor….

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  3. smilecalm | February 17, 2016 at 12:20 am

    seems like a nice
    post card to send
    to members of Congress 🙂

    Reply
  5. leggypeggy | February 17, 2016 at 1:02 am

    Powerful message. And true.

    Reply
  7. belasbrightideas | February 17, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    This is so poignant, and very apropos in theme to other posts I’ve been reading today! Thanks for sharing, Ivon.

    Reply

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