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19 Feb Creating Conversation on Non-Knowing Growing

Posted at 14:37h in Events, Interviews, Look and Listen, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

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...

20 Jan What Makes a Difference for People of “Difference”

Posted at 20:21h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Language, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Vygotsky 0 Comments

It’s time to change how we think about and relate to people whose makeup is or appears to be different from the norm. We now think of what’s different—let’s say a biological or neurological difference—as the main source of disability and difficulty, and we focus help and treatment on this....

26 Nov Giving Thanks From and To Uganda

Posted at 23:50h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 1 Comment

Today I share an email from a dear friend, Peter Nsubuga from Kampala Uganda. Peter is a graduate of the East Side Institute’s International Class 2009 whose organization, Hope for Youth-Uganda, was in its infancy then. Peter started this NGO in Central Uganda’s Mukono District to support vulnerable children with food, clothing and...

16 Oct Why I Love Castillo

Posted at 21:00h in Culture, I Like This, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

The Castillo Theatre, housed in the NYC headquarters of the All Stars Project on 42nd St, is a special place. It's my favorite theatre. In my inbox today was an email from Castillo's artistic director Dan Friedman. It personally and eloquently gives expression to Castillo's values and aesthetics.—and I share...

25 Feb Developing in a World in Crisis

Posted at 17:04h in Community Organizing, Events, Speaking Engagements 1 Comment

I'll be in London the end of March. Happy to be doing a workshop organized by All Stars London friends Workshop: Developing in a World in Crisis March 29, 1-4 pm Around the world – and right in our own neighbourhoods – the disparity between rich and poor affects us all. In times of...

01 Dec Playing with Hard Stuff…more on Japan

Posted at 21:19h in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

For some more on my trip to Japan, please read my Psychology Today column, "The Grand Prix of Hallucinations" In this community, people don't try to silence the voices they hear or keep them to themselves. They socialize them, study them, play with them, and gain the courage to live joyously. ...

17 Sep People Speak Out About Diagnosis

Posted at 19:50h in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

I posted a Psychology Today A Conceptual Revolution column yesterday, “Do You Need a Diagnosis to Get Some Help?” There I shared an overview of what happened when a team of volunteers from the East Side Institute and Social Therapy Group conducted a survey on diagnosis at Harlem Week, a...

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...

07 Jun What’s Developing in a World in Crisis?

Posted at 14:20h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Look and Listen, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, What's New 0 Comments

Through the programs of the East Side Institute I've had the privilege of working with hundreds of people around the world who have added elements of social therapeutics/a psychology of becoming to their practices as educators, artists, performers, youth workers, therapists, health workers, psychologists, and community organizers. At this date,...