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18 Feb Performing the World and We Stay Closer to One Another
Posted at 11:44h
in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Performing the World, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments
In this guest blog, two wonderful performance activists share their amazing work with you. Performing the world and we stay closer to one another By Cheng Zeng and Marian Rich Cheng: The Chinese lunar new year of the Mouse should have been a time for family reunions. Unfortunately, a devastating coronavirus has spread...
22 Jan Words to Ponder #36
These words, written twenty years ago by renowned social constructionist Ken Gergen, are surely worth pondering today. "In important degree, identity politics is a descendent of Western, individualist ideology. It is not the single individual who commands our interest in this case; rather individual identity is conflated with group identity. Individual...
07 Jan Working and Playing with Many Others
Posted at 16:55h
in Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments
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...
05 Jan A Look Back at Ecological Validity
Posted at 01:31h
in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 0 Comments
While I don’t own the article I wrote for the recent journal Mind, Culture and Activity (the publisher does), I do have “permission” to share the online link to it. The first 50 people to go there can read it! (How generous publishers are.) I titled it “Musings on ecological...
29 Dec The End of Knowing as Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity)
Posted at 23:25h
in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments
When I have an academic presentation to make or an article to write on social therapeutic methodology, it's usually an opportunity to play around with conceptions I've spoken and written about many times before. I like the challenge of creating new frames ("What do I want to say to this...
26 Dec Brains and Politics
Posted at 23:04h
in Culture, Events, Interviews, Overweight Brain, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments
On Sunday, December 8th, I had the pleasure of speaking with 75 people from 17 states in the US. They called in to the monthly Politics for the People conversation hosted by Cathy Stewart, VP for National Development at indepependentvoting.org. It was a privilege to be Cathy's guest, to discuss...
21 Oct Praise for The Overweight Brain
Posted at 21:59h
in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Reviews 0 Comments
I’m so grateful for readers’ responses to The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world! “This book may disorient you – be stirred, not shaken! Lois’s book is about knowledge and knowing, and what is wrong with them. She lays down a...
10 Aug Notes from El Paso
Posted at 16:29h
in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments
You all know of the horrendous, racist mass murder in El Paso last weekend. What you may not know is that the East Side Institute’s development community is active in El Paso and its sister city Juárez and that we are continuing to use play, performance and social therapeutics...
05 Jul Words to Ponder #35
Today's words are from the improv pioneer Viola Spolin from over fifty years ago “Motivation is limited and subjective, it cuts the players off from ongoing stage life, and it implies that you have a reason for everything.” “Words can easily become labels, dead and useless. The word or subject matter should...