Kindness is something we can give without expectation of return.
Kindness ~ Mark Twain
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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.18 responses »
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beautiful! ❤
Mark Twain had a way with words.
I would add it´s beautifully sad. And the photo was a great touch for the quote Mr.Prefontaine.
Beautiful and sad are part of life. Thank you Charly.
So wonderful. A picture really does speak a thousand words.
They do.
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Sure, wonderful!! 🙂
Thank you.
The world can always use an extra dose of kindness.
It can.
Yes!
Kindness is free to give. We should give daily.
It is the gift that gives back in uncertain ways. We do not know when the kindness we show will return to us.
you should do a series of his quotes.Never get enough of him!
He was prolific and his quotes remain relevant.
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