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23 Feb Performance Breakthrough

Posted at 16:07h in Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Performance Movement, What's New 0 Comments

My friend and colleague Cathy Salit, CEO of Performance of a Lifetime and an East Side Institute faculty member, has a new book coming out on April 12. For many years, Cathy and her team have brought the power of performance to the people who work in hundreds of global companies...

22 Feb Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

Posted at 00:34h in Critical psychiatry, I Like This, Politics, What's New 0 Comments

2015 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award Goes to Social Psychologist Jean Maria Arrigo Jean Maria Arrigo, who confronted systematic efforts by the American Psychological Association (APA) to allow and conceal the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees following the September 11 attacks, has been awarded the...

20 Feb I’m an Independent

Posted at 02:34h in I Like This, Politics 2 Comments

Posted on independentvoting.org, "I Can't Caucus For Bernie Because I'm an Independent" My name is Catana L Barnes. I am an independent voter and the president of Independent Voters of Nevada, I would like to caucus for Bernie Sanders but the state of Nevada and the Democratic Party of Nevada require that...

19 Feb Creating Conversation on Non-Knowing Growing

Posted at 14:37h in Events, Interviews, Look and Listen, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

Thanks to the dozens of people who created conversation with me the week of Februry 8-12 on my book-in-progress, The Overweight Brain. You can view the online running conversation—so thoughtful and playful—and view or listen to the live chat. Video recording of the webinar with Lois Holzman on The Overweight Brain: Audio...

06 Feb Words to Ponder #16

Posted at 15:52h in I Like This, Language, What's New, Words to Ponder 5 Comments

If there is something you wish to know and by meditation you cannot find it, my advice to you, my ingenious friend, is: speak about it with the first acquaintance you encounter. Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) “On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking” ...

27 Jan Some Great Dialogues on Mental Health

Posted at 17:31h in Events, Human Development, I Like This, Interviews, Look and Listen, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments

Eric Maisel is conducting 100+ interviews on the future of mental health and posting them on his Psychology Today blog. Each week, he's summarizing them at Mad in America. Here's week 1's summary of The Future of Mental Health Interview Series And here's links to each interview Day 1: Bonnie Burstow on feminist psychotherapy and...

20 Jan What Makes a Difference for People of “Difference”

Posted at 20:21h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Language, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Vygotsky 0 Comments

It’s time to change how we think about and relate to people whose makeup is or appears to be different from the norm. We now think of what’s different—let’s say a biological or neurological difference—as the main source of disability and difficulty, and we focus help and treatment on this....

20 Jan Building Bridges across the Rio Grande

Posted at 02:49h in Community Organizing, Culture, I Like This, Play 0 Comments

Don't miss the newsletter of this great organizization developing projects bringing together people from the the El Paso-Cuidad Juarez US-Mexico cities....

16 Jan Words to Ponder #15

Posted at 17:47h in I Like This, Language, Politics, Psychology, What's New, Words to Ponder 4 Comments

If I were an historian I'd want to be as creative, eloquent, passionate and rigorous as Kurt Danziger (Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto). A few times a year, I return to his wonderful books, Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research and Naming the Mind: How Psychology...

14 Jan Interviewing Ananta Giri

Posted at 18:08h in Culture, Events, Human Development, Philosophy 0 Comments

On January 25, 2016 I’ll be interviewing Ananta Kumar Giri, associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Tamil Nadu, India, as part of the Side Institute’s “Making a Conceptual Revolution” series. Professor Giri is a fascinating person whose interests include social movements and cultural change, creativity and...