27 Feb Words to Ponder #17
Instead of thinking that you have to put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it,...
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23 Feb Performance Breakthrough
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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...
22 Feb Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
2015 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award Goes to Social Psychologist Jean Maria Arrigo Jean Maria Arrigo, who confronted systematic efforts by the American Psychological Association (APA) to allow and conceal the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees following the September 11 attacks, has been awarded the...
19 Feb Creating Conversation on Non-Knowing Growing
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Thanks to the dozens of people who created conversation with me the week of Februry 8-12 on my book-in-progress, The Overweight Brain. You can view the online running conversation—so thoughtful and playful—and view or listen to the live chat. Video recording of the webinar with Lois Holzman on The Overweight Brain: Audio...
06 Feb Words to Ponder #16
If there is something you wish to know and by meditation you cannot find it, my advice to you, my ingenious friend, is: speak about it with the first acquaintance you encounter. Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) “On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking” ...
16 Jan Words to Ponder #15
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If I were an historian I'd want to be as creative, eloquent, passionate and rigorous as Kurt Danziger (Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto). A few times a year, I return to his wonderful books, Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research and Naming the Mind: How Psychology...
11 Jan Taos Institute Webinar on “The Overweight Brain”
Thanks to the Taos Institute for hosting me for a "Conversation with the Author" webinar February 8-12. Anyone can register for free and join in. From February 8-11 people can post comments and questions and create written conversation with each other and me. Then on Friday February 12 10-11:30 EST...
09 Jan Performance, Culture Change and Activism
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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...
08 Jan Words to Ponder #14
Worth remembering as we begin a new year...
22 Dec Words to Ponder #13
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Today’s Words to Ponder are spoken by Sir Malcolm Muckerex, the pompous and erudite narrator in Fred Newman’s play, “Life Upon the Wicked Stage.” The play was first performed live at the American Psychological Association Convention in 1997; you can watch a video performance of it here. The world is a wicked...