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Performance Movement

23 Feb Performance Breakthrough

Posted at 16:07h in Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Performance Movement, What's New 0 Comments

My friend and colleague Cathy Salit, CEO of Performance of a Lifetime and an East Side Institute faculty member, has a new book coming out on April 12. For many years, Cathy and her team have brought the power of performance to the people who work in hundreds of global companies...

09 Jan Performance, Culture Change and Activism

Posted at 01:43h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 0 Comments

There's lots of activity around the 9th Performing the World conference/happening to be held in New York City Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. Proposals are due February 21, so please help spread the word (and get your proposals in)! I've heard from PTW old timers who are designing sessions across...

11 Dec Performance and Power

Posted at 19:12h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PROPOSALS September 23-25, 2016 Deadline for Proposals: February 21, 2016 The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which...

27 Sep Can We Perform Our Way To Power?

Posted at 16:00h in Community Organizing, Events, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 2 Comments

Can We Perform Our Way to Power? The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which it spreads becomes more conflicted....

01 Oct Performing the World 2014 Progam

Posted at 16:12h in Look and Listen, Performance Movement 0 Comments

400 people from over 30 countries will perform "How Shall We Become?" next week at Performing the World 2014 (PTW'14), October 10-12 in New York City. The program is on the PTW website....

28 Aug A Diagnostic Alternative You Might Not Have Thought Possible

Posted at 15:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Events, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

Three weeks ago I was in Washington, DC for the First Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. It marked what I think is an important turning point for what has been a loud outcry against the DSM-5. The Summit was sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, which has been a...

16 Jul How Shall We Become?

Posted at 21:47h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Performing the World 2014 (PTW’14) is in full gear. The theme for this 8th PTW—“How Shall We Become?”—resonated! Nearly 200 proposals came to us from all parts of the world, from all kinds of people, from all kinds of communities. Most exciting was the way that nearly all the proposals...

07 May What Does It Mean To Be Alive?

Posted at 18:04h in Creativity, Events, Human Development, I Like This, Performance Movement, Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 4 Comments

That's the title TEDxNavesink gave to an item on their blog that that features me—I like it! I've enjoyed and hated (sometimes in the same moment) preparing my talk for its performance this Saturday May 10 in Red Bank NJ. I'm excited to do it and to meet all the...

15 Mar Just Released—Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology

Posted at 14:37h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein 2 Comments

Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.” Teo,...

07 Mar New Book Series!

Posted at 03:10h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Publications, What's New, Youth Development 2 Comments

I'm excited to share a new project of mine. I'm series editor for a new collection of books for Palgrave Macmillan on the topic of Play, Performance, Learning and Development. Over the next three years (and maybe beyond) researchers and practitioners will have a multi-disciplinary "home" to publish their work...