Wendell Berry wrote a series of poems about Sabbath and taking time to let the spirit mend and heal. Wayne Muller wrote a book called Sabbath and provided a number of Sabbath practices from various traditions. After we read the book, we used practices and wrote reflections about how we each responded to them at a hospitality retreat.
How each find moments of peace and solace in a busy world is personal and reflects who we are as humans. For me, it is time spent walking, reading poetry, and writing. It is challenging as I need to adhere to a routine without being to rigid. What I observe, feel, hear, etc. needs to able to reach me in meaningful ways.
I wrote this poems as I entered a lengthy Sabbath period, taking time away from screens of various types.
Stepping aside–
Easing into spacious spaces;
Sensing stillness–
Unsquaring eyes,
Fidgeting less,
Being.
Resting–
Embracing wakefulness;
Emerging from frenetic hibernation–
Moving yet remaining still–
Enriching spirit,
Rediscovering lightness of being.
I took this picture on a hike in Glacier National Park. Nature just is. It exists for the sole purpose of existing. Humans need to do this more; just be in a given moment or time.
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.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:19 AM Teacher as Transformer wrote:
> ivonprefontaine posted: ” Wendell Berry wrote a series of poems about > Sabbath and taking time to let the spirit mend and heal. Wayne Muller wrote > a book called Sabbath and provided a number of Sabbath practices from > various traditions. After we read the book, we used practices an” >
RT @mariarosa_456: “It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or… 8 hours ago
RT @mariarosa_456: "Empty space. Strong winds. Just a moment of life. Little miracles among many thanks, then dreams or not life goes on. N… 8 hours ago
Teacher as Transformer 
Beautiful thoughts and photo.
Thank you for the kind words
You’re welcome. 😊
Just Be!
Or, as John Lennon might have said “Let it Be.”
Thanks for sharing Smile It is a great day
*ROY FANTHOME*
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:19 AM Teacher as Transformer wrote:
> ivonprefontaine posted: ” Wendell Berry wrote a series of poems about > Sabbath and taking time to let the spirit mend and heal. Wayne Muller wrote > a book called Sabbath and provided a number of Sabbath practices from > various traditions. After we read the book, we used practices an” >
You are welcome Roy. Yes, it is always a great day.
Nature is my greatest teacher. Always has been.
It is so spacious with its teachings.
Indeed!
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