via Silently Blooming
Shobna provides a beautiful images and Thich Nhat Hanh‘s quote about silence. Parker Palmer says that community and solitude form a paradox. They do not exist without one another.
It is in moments of solitude I find meaning in living in community. What I share in common with others far outweighs what makes me different although the differences are essential to what makes each of us unique beings.
It is in moments of silence I look at my life as if it were a mountain revealing its story through the striations it formed throughout its existence. In silence, my life takes on meaning. It is there that my relationships take form and mean more than they did in the busyness of the day.
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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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Thank you for the link and your post on silence. Silence can enrich us and our relationships deeply.
You are welcome Shobna.
I’ve just moved to an apartment where there is perfect silence inside the rooms. It is a wonderful and peaceful experience. My spirit is enjoying it.
It sounds enjoyable.
True and well said.
Silence–the heavens whisper their secrets! Lovely post, Ivon.
What a beautiful line Bette. Thank you.
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Embracing the silence inspired…
I know what you mean and fully appreciate your thoughts. I have a quiet space that I escape to where the only sound is the melody of the creek, and the wind in trees. Really tall trees. With each visit I feel renewed. A nice write.
Pat
Pat, the melody of nature is a wonderful space. I feel like that when I walk in nature.
So very true.😊
Thank you for your thoughts. Other comments say it all.