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15 Jun The End of Knowing???

Posted at 19:13h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I'm super excited to be having a webinar conversation with one of my heroes—Sugata Mitra of The Hole in the Wall and TED Prize fame. At a time when the world’s knowledge is but a few clicks away, knowing is becoming obsolete. What, then, becomes of education? What are the possibilities...

27 Apr Words to Ponder #34

Posted at 18:55h in Words to Ponder 0 Comments

Today's object of pondering is from Irshad Manji, author of Don't Label Me "You cannot get people to relate if all you’re going to do is berate." ...

22 Mar Japanese Colleagues: Givers in a World Culture of Getting

Posted at 01:45h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

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...

01 Mar Disrupting Dementia with Joy

Posted at 21:26h in Creativity, Culture, Health Care, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Here’s a recent article from The Washington Post that reports on an important and exciting trend in Alzheimer’s care: Changing the "Tragedy Narrative:" Why a Growing Camp Is Promoting a More Joyous Approach to Alzheimer’s. The article shines a spotlight on some of the many, many activists, advocates, caregivers and people living with dementia who are...

13 Feb Getting the Conversation Going

Posted at 21:20h in Culture, Events, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

On Sunday, February 24, I’m hosting a live video interview—Can Conversation Cure? Developing the Practice of Talk Therapy. My guests are Tom Strong, a psychologist and counselor-educator at the University of Calgary, and Murray Dabby, an Atlanta-based social worker, therapist, trainer and relationshipcoach. It will take place 12 noon-1:30 p.m. Eastern U.S....

09 Feb The Seduction of Objectifying Understanding (the cult of science)

Posted at 03:07h in Language, Overweight Brain, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 5 Comments

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...

25 Dec Yes, you can learn and teach playfully in higher ed!

Posted at 22:50h in I Like This 0 Comments

Performance and Play: Pioneering a New Method of Learning in Lloyd International Honors College Read about it! ...

19 Dec Stop Worrying About What You Don’t Know

Posted at 03:00h in Creativity, Human Development, Overweight Brain, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 1 Comment

Here's me on The Overweight Brain ...

20 Nov Giving Away Process

Posted at 02:34h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

This past Sunday, November 18, the East Side Institute held a Community Meeting and Fundraiser. We’ve been hosting these twice a year for the last ten years. We get to share developments, advances and challenges in the organizing work we do at the grassroots and in academia and invite people...

04 Nov Words to Ponder #34

Posted at 03:54h in Play, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

Today's quote is from Groucho, one of my two favorite Marx's. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ...