The world that we live in both shapes us and is shaped by us. It’s always been violent and peaceful, loving and hateful (as are we). These past few years, though, the violence and hatred feel more frightening, more painful; the devastation and despair more intense and soul-wrenching, the newest...
I just received a review of my book The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world that I am sharing. Phillippe Vendenbroeck really completes (in a Vygotskian sense) my thoughts and written words. And the site he posted it...
On November 9 I had the pleasure of being featured at the Normal? Brain Festival, originating in Folkestone UK (where it has taken place since 2015 in person over four days). This year the festival went virtual and runs through April 2020. The purpose is to bring science and art together...
Social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, performance activism, and non-knowing growing have been spreading far and wide! Here are some of the places I spoke and groups I worked and played with in 2019, with links to some talks and videos (in no particular order). University of North Carolina Greensboro Lloyd...
I spent last week with 16 Japanese professors and graduate students who traveled to NYC for an immersion in social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, and a first-hand experience with how these "tools-and-results" help people grow by performing our sociality and building community. We had a wonderful time together. By...
I’ve been getting lovely feedback from readers since the publication of my book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world. You might remember it from this site, where I published chapters as I wrote them and invited reader...
I've traveled to several cities recently, speaking with students and faculty at different universities and introducing performance and improv to them through workshops. It 's always provocative and eye-opening to challenge the knowing paradigm at a university (for obvious reasons). Inviting professional knowers and knowers-to-be to perform philosophy as a new...
The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...
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...