In this little treasure of a book I found yesterday, is a quote .. I had not seen this one before from one of Kahlil Gibran’s writings;. You pray in your distress and in your need; would tha…
Source: Kahlil Gibran
This is a wonderful quote from Kahlil Gibran. We should make it a daily practice to pray whether it is in a time of need or not. When we pray, it can be a thankful and mindful practice that acknowledges the good that comes into our lives.
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.
Teacher as Transformer 
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I LOVED HIS WORK…NOT EVERY ONE WILL, BUT I DO!
A fine poet to quote…have you read all the works he wrote (alas, I have not)?
He is. No, I have not. That is what makes his poetry worthwhile. There is more to read.
Mindfulness is prayer, as I embrace the moment in its fullness, I embrace the God essence in that moment also.
I love the idea of “God essence” in each moment. Thank you for sharing that.
I found today’s post very enlightening. The Poet Gibran is quite good, I had not heard of him until today. Thank-You for introducing him. This was the one I like the best. ”“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ” This gives me great hope. I am the director/directress of a Lay Carmelite Community. My soul has been seared with scars by some members who don’t like my quiet gently style of leadership. Again Thank-You.
Great leadership is quiet and gentle. That can lead to many scars, but adds to the strength of what you do as a leader.