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
Happy New Year, hope it’s a fabulous year.
Thank you. Have a wonderful and prosperous 2018.
Thank you for the reblog.
Happy New Year!
You are welcome. Enjoy a wonderful and prosperous 2018.
Happy 2018, Ivon!
Thank you for your inspiring posts. 🙂
You are welcome Amy and thank you for the lovely photographs. Have a wonderful and bountiful 2018.
Happy New Year, Ivon.
Wishing you a year filled with love and peace…
xoxoxo
Happy New Year Carolyn. Wishing you and yours a bountiful and joyous 2018.
A Happy and blessed New Year, Ivon! Michael;-)
Thank you Michael. Take care and enjoy.
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Thanks, Ivon. I need to remember that! Wishing you a great 2018.
Thank you Cynthia. Take care and have a wonderful 2018.
Thank you for sharing!
You are welcome.