William Ayot reminds me how much goes unexplored in my life. In the busyness and noise of my living, I do not hear what is calling me to be explored.
When I am mindful to the universe and my self, I hear whispers that come in gentle breezes and on the sun’s rays. Being present to the universe and my self, helps me explore stars that seemed beyond my reach and climb peaks I believed unscalable.
The universe is a great ocean calling to me and patiently waiting my response.
What do you want to do in this world?
What is your star, your far distant peak?
What dream lies unexplored within you
like a vast uncharted southern ocean:
daunting, demanding, compelling in the night,
yet receding in the bright and busy light of day?
What discoveries invite you to the water?
What deck awaits your first excited step?
What ship, what clipper, what brave caravel?
what crowded ferry crosses back and forth,
from dream to waking, dream to waking,
every morning of your undiscovered life?
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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 
“undiscovered life.” Yes. 😉 xoM
Most of life is undiscovered, waiting to be discovered. I only have to watch our grandson explore.
Yes. It’s that shift in perception from a life being something one goes through to being something one discovers…very powerful, Ivon! 😉 xoM
We all have those dreams that just won’t leave us alone.
Yes, they call us and pull at us to follow.
I sometimes here the silence underneath the silence
There is silence in silence.
Like underneath the roots of all growing things,
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EXCELLENT VERSE! I SUPPOSE…WHATEVER BOAT I CAN FLOAT…?
Excellent poem, excellent piece of philosophy, excellent read Sir. I am going to reblog this one for you.
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Thank you for the re-blog and comment. It is appreciated.