15 May
With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward.
Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and community organizers looking to impact the poverty, violence, despair and fierce prejudices of their communities.
The current International Class of thirteen will be completing the program in June with their third NYC residency. What a wonderful and wonderfully diverse group they are! Psychologists, educators, theatre activists and scholars, consultants. They come from the US, our neighbors Canada and Mexico, and the more far away lands of Brazil, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Serbia, and New Zealand.
The application process for the 2018-2019 International Class is underway. The Class begins in September with the Performing the World conference, September 21-23.
Check it out—it just might be just the thing for you at this point in your life!
The International Class changed my life and work. How? By fostering communication, creativity, collaboration, and play. By celebrating mistakes as opportunities to learn, discover, develop. I started loving language again and discovered that words not only record what is, but create what is becoming. I met talented, playful people from around the world! Social therapeutics, the methodology created by Fred Newman and Lois Holzman, revolutionized my work and play in refugee camps and other communities. No matter what you bring with you, the International Class will show you how to build something new with it.” —Elena Boukouvala, performance activist and therapist organizing with refugees across Europe, founder of Play, Perform, Learn, Grow
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