These few words capture what I’m about. Fred Newman and I first coined the phrase as the title of an article we wrote in 2003 which shared our view that everyone has to grow / develop / transform / become other than who we are now, if we’re to create a better world for all.

The Developmentalist is a column on Everyday Developmental Dilemmas by Lois Holzman. Click below to read more and please send me your questions!

I love supporting people to learn and develop—and creating environments with them for that to happen. To me the support and creating are inseparable.

My TED Talk, "Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age,” discusses the developmental power of play and performance. Please take a look, and also check-out the schedule of my upcoming speaking events. Invite me to come talk to your students and colleagues about "non-knowing growing."

Being in the world as a knower keeps us stuck. We need a new form of life—something I call “non-knowing growing.” It’s an approach to using all we are (and all we know) to make a better world.