Une princesse noire à Paris

Son Excellence la très honorable Michaëlle Jean avec le président de la République française, Son Excellence monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, au Palais de l’Élysée.

Son Excellence la très honorable Michaëlle Jean, gouverneur général du Canada s’est entretenue le président du Sénat, Son Excellence monsieur Christian Poncelet, lors d’un déjeuner au Palais du Petit Luxembourg.

Leurs Excellences la très honorable Michaëlle Jean et Jean-Daniel Lafond ont rencontré le président de l’Assemblée nationale, monsieur Bernard Accoyer.

Son Excellence la très honorable Michaëlle Jean, gouverneur général du Canada a rencontré le maire de Paris, monsieur Bertrand Delanoë, à l’Hôtel de ville de Paris.

La très honorable Michaëlle Jean, gouverneure générale du Canada est accueillie par le ministre de l’Éducation nationale, monsieur Xavier Darcos à son arrivée en France pour une visite officielle de cinq jours.

La gouverneure générale fait la revue de la garde d’honneur à l’aéroport de Paris-Orly lors de son arrivée en France.

Leurs Excellences la très honorable Michaëlle Jean et monsieur Jean-Daniel Lafond avec le premier ministre de la République française, Son Excellence monsieur François Fillon suite à une rencontre à l'Hôtel Matignon à Paris

Cette dernière photo est pour le plaisir du modérateur ...Sa sa ye sa

Son Excellence a participé au 16e spectacle du gala du Prix du Gouverneur général pour les arts de la scène au Centre national des Arts à Ottawa, où de grands artistes de la scène ont rendu hommage aux récipiendaires de 2008

Mèsi, mèsi, mèsi, Marc.
Ou konnen kisa m renmen....
Dènye pòtre a se sa nèt.....

Oui, elle est noire comme une nuit
baignée dans la lumière d'une pleine lune.
où l'odeur du jasmin et de l'ilan-ilan
embaume le sommeil des belles et des braves.

Comme une bouffée de chaleur et de fraicheur
envahissant le corps et l'ame
de ceux qui revent de bonheur
et de dignité.

Comme une nuit proche du crépuscule
où tous les reves et les espoirs
peuvent se permettre de visiter
les pensées et les aspirations
de la femme haitienne.

colocolo a écrit:La princesse est-elle noire?

Elle serait noire si elle représentait une reine noire. Elle représente la reine d'Angleterre et doit etre considérée comme blanche.

Face au dévouement de cette dame pour la communauté haitienne, je ne peux m'empecher de tomber amoureux pour elle. C'est regrettable que je n'ai pas une fille. Elle symbolise le modèle de réussite et les jeunes adolescentes ont intéret à marcher dans ses traces. De nos jours, il est vraiment difficile de trouver de bons modèles pour nos enfants et cette perle qu'est cette princesse est vraiment rare.

Elle représente la reine d'Angleterre et devrait ètre considérée comme blanche?

HEIN?

6 Positive Guidelines from Michaëlle Jean, Canada’s Governor General







Posted on 16 Jan 2008 by Dr. Shue




Michaëlle Jean, the Governor General of Canada, was interviewed by Aaron Wherry for the 14Jan 2008 Maclean’s magazine: Canadians Get Their Very Own Oprah
(although I was disappointed to find the article about a leading
Canadian woman a bit buried on the Maclean’s site) . In this article,
she shared some of her strategies for not being distressed over early
public commentary and concerns about her appropriateness for the role.
I was so impressed by the “psychological rightness” and positivity of what she had to say that I wanted to share it with you. Here’s what she said:
<blockquote>…” “This is something that you have to learn at a very
young age. And especially when you are different, okay? This is
something that you have to learn pretty fast. What belongs to you and
what doesn’t belong to you. What you can associate with and what you
can’t associate with. It’s about keeping your own dignity. Being
focused on the kind of vision that you share and what you want to
achieve. What is essential and what isn’t. There are things that I
cannot change in this country. This debate is not mine. It does not
belong to me. I prefer to stay outside the debate and this position is
exactly that. You stay outside politics. And you represent a moral
authority.”
Never mind how unnatural this is: to place oneself between the
competing forces of servitude and leadership. “I think the difficult
part of this was, in my nature, I fight back. I think in a different
position I would’ve fought back. I would’ve answered back. In my
position as Governor General I couldn’t. I couldn’t. Because it was not
appropriate for me to jump into the arena, become part of the noise,”
she says. “I sit outside the noise.”</blockquote>
This is a great deal of wisdom here for any woman entering the
current style of politics. Here are the main themes as I see them:
1) Learn what belongs to you and what doesn’t belong to you. What you can associate with and what you can’t associate with.
This is critical for anyone entering the public eye. People seeing
you will project all sorts of their own Stuff onto you. Some of it may
relate to you in a relevant way, some may be a reflection of your own
Stuff, but much of it will not be relevant or related to you. So let it
go by, from an emotional perspective. Don’t let it become something you
wonder about and fret about and feel you must defend yourself about.
2) It’s about keeping your own dignity.
If you have a clear vision of who you are, what’s important, and a
comfort with yourself, you’ll find you don’t need to respond to every
criticism and jab — neither externally back to them nor internally by
fretting about it. If you do want to respond, does the way in which you
plan to respond maintain your own dignity? Does it convey a message
that matches your own view of who and how you want to be?
3) Being focused on the kind of vision that you share and what you want to achieve. And on what is essential and what isn’t.
And this is how you can let their Stuff go by. Does what
they are saying have a bearing on your vision and your goals? Would
acknowledging and responding to it help you keep centred on what you
are wanting to achieve? Does the way in which you plan to respond bring
the debate back to what you want to be in the centre of the issues?
4) You stay outside politics.
Governor-General Jean said this in light of her role as a
representative of the Queen, and thus outside of the thick of
Parliamentary debates. But I still think it’s good advice to be able to
stay centred and focused on more positive way of living politics. If
you can avoid getting caught up in the intrigue, the messiness, the
“plots” of ordinary politics as it has (de-)evolved, you will find
yourself less stressed, less tempted to compromise who you want to be
and how you want to work, and more able to be a role model for a
different way of doing way of doing things.
And, to the degree that these debates aren’t relevant to your
vision, your mission, your responsibilities, they aren’t yours and you
needn’t feel obligated to become involved with debates that aren’t
yours. (see #1)
5) Place oneself between the competing forces of servitude and leadership.
I believe this is the biggest challenge and the biggest payoff in
terms of psychologically surviving the political world. It’s the
summary of being a political representative, isn’t it? The
responsibility to be a Servant Leader. To recognize that your
constituents have “hired” you to do a job for them — to be their voice
and their collective thought in the way we live together as a larger
Community (whether that’s Canada, a province, a city, a school region).
You need to feel yourself poised between sharing the information they
need to understand the recommended actions you propose or took and in
sharing their insights and opinions and concerns to the political
process of creating our collective ways of doing things. You are a
Servant in so far as you have volunteered to convey their voices to the
decision-making parties. You are a Leader in so far as you help to
create those decisions and educate your constituents about why the
decisions make sense. Michaëlle Jean again says it brilliantly: “It’s not about me. It’s about them.”
If you get caught up in Other People’s Stuff, especially if you
personally are the target of that Stuff, it distracts and detracts from
your ability to fulfil those two roles. It lets it become about you
instead of about the people you are serving.
In the past, I often had to work with individuals with severe brain
injuries that made it difficult for some of them to control their
behaviour and words. They could be personally attacking (physically or
verbally), demeaning, or just rude. It didn’t matter. I had to stay
focused on what they needed from me as a psychologist and not get
worried by whether they had hurt my feelings or whether an attack on me
was personal or because I was a woman or even whether they were right
about a personally derogatory comment. It didn’t matter to the bigger
picture of what I was there to do.
6) Sit outside the noise.
I love this image. And I suspect it could be a useful image to
actually use for re-balancing and re-centreing in the midst of
“political noise”. Imagine yourself sitting in a bubble of calm and
peace and quiet. Re-connect to yourself and to the excitement of why
you wanted to enter politics in the first place, the hope and
satisfaction of helping your constituents, and allow yourself to feel
that in your heart. Bathe in that sensation as much as necessary to let
the noise recede and become less and less important. Then keep that
bubble around you when you go back into the World. Move within that
bubble as much as possible and take a couple minutes to re-capture it
if it disappears temporarily. You may even want to create a kind of
“portfolio” for yourself of cards and letters and other evidence that
you have been on track and achieving even small steps in your Servant
Leadership role as a politician.
There is an actual technique I teach to my clients called “heart coherence”
that helps to achieve this kind of stillness within the noise and it
really does work to help you keep more balanced, more satisfied, and
less anxious about what happens “out there”. I’m happy to share it with
you, if you feel it would be useful for you.
There’s even more in the article itself — please do go and read
about how an amazing woman fulfills her governmental role. Here’s one
last quote that I think sums it up:
<blockquote>“I think really working on reasons to believe and
to hope in humanity’s possibilities is something that inspires me a
lot. … I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in empowering people.
I like people. And I love connecting. It’s a communion of ideas. Of
values. Of ideals. And it’s magic. And people crave for that.”</blockquote>
So — there’s what I extracted from Michaëlle Jean’s comments — how about you? What resonates with you from what she shared?




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3 Responses to “6 Positive Guidelines from Michaëlle Jean, Canada’s Governor General”

1. 
   
   Robert, on January 16th, 2008 at 18:34 Said:
   
   
   Thank you for that insightful analysis of the article on the
   Governor General. i have found some of the criticisms leveled at her
   especially by the right leaning media such as the National Post to be a
   bit crass. There is no doubt that a lot of people would like to see her
   fail so that they can say, “I told you so.” There is still after all a
   lot of racism in this country. i however hope that she will continue to
   do an excellent job and that these unfair attacks will not dampen her
   spirits.