10 Oct Non-Knowing Growing
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30 Sep Development is Our Task (Embrace Paradox)
Posted at 20:50h
in Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 1 Comment
For many years now I’ve been sharing with people all over the world what I call “Vygotsky the developmentalist.” What I mean by this is that the overarching concern of the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky was human development, despite him being primarily known as an educational psychologist. The phrase is...
28 Aug Love in the Time of Corona
Posted at 16:58h
in Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments
One day last week, while having some lunch of leftover mussels and pasta, I was looking through the Weekend Arts section of the NY Times (hard copy!) and saw a recommendation for a two hour show streaming over the weekend called “Love in the Time of Corona.” “That’s my title!” I...
26 Aug Three Hearts of the World
A decade ago, when we discovered Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?", we found a kindred spirit for our community’s work in schooling (Schools for Growth) and afterschool development (allstars.org). We were buoyed by his enormous popularity in passionately addressing the necessity of transforming schools. Over the...
07 Aug Words to Ponder #37
Today's words to ponder are taken from Fred Newman's "Community as a Heart in a Havenless World." He gave this talk 30 years ago, but it just as well could have been today. "We have to learn how to build community by recognizing the extent to which, and precisely how, we...
10 Jul Playing through the Pandemic: Some Thoughts on Play, Happiness and Human Development
Posted at 19:38h
in Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 7 Comments
"it's taken being locked down and closed in for us to be opened up" The East Side Institute (Institute) of which I am the director is launching a new podcast in August called “All Power to the Developing.” I’d like to take its launch as an opportunity to share with you...
02 Jul Social Therapeutics and Social Construction
Posted at 18:02h
in Creativity, Human Development, Interviews, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 1 Comment
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is the host of Positivity Strategist, an interview series focusing on positive change methodologies, including social construction and appreciative inquiry. The current shows in this fabulous podcast, conceived in collaboration with the Taos Institute, feature a diverse group of scholars and practitioners responding to the invitation—"What are the...
02 Jul Age and Me-ness
Posted at 01:17h
in Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy 2 Comments
Fred Newman disliked being called wise. He thought wisdom implied knowing and, he believed knowing was, at this point in history, a dead end at best, and most often destructive. (He and I did write a book entitled, The End of Knowing, after all!) And yet, I have to admit...
30 Jun Positivity Strategist (Guest)
Dr. Lois Holzman explores the topic of social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, social therapeutics seeks to bring meaning to our relational processes in collaborative and appreciative ways to elevate human connection and bridge cultural divides....
23 Jun Normal? Conversations (Guest)
EPISODE 1- Loiz Holzman & Diane Dever | The Knowing VS Growing Brain...