A Psychology of Becoming

Here's where I share what I'm thinking about. I would love your comments.

21 Aug

Posted at 18:05h in Creativity, Psychology of Becoming

Growing up is a mixed bag. Case in point: We have more varied and richer experiences but we less frequently free our imaginations to create new experiences with them. There’s what’s real and there’s fantasy—the line between them becomes rigid and “what’s real” comes to dominate our lives. “Oh, that’s...

25 Jul

Posted at 17:37h in Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming

Each year the Institute hosts a Community Meeting and Fundraiser. We design each gathering around a theme. This past May our theme was Giving in a Culture of Getting and Loss. Among the elements were original poems written by six Institute supporters (referred to below). At these gatherings it’s always...

02 Jul

Posted at 20:08h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming

Instead of asking "What's the solution?" ask "How can we become the kind of species/society/community/organization that can create solutions that seem impossible?" That question—"How can we become?"— is unanswerable through traditional means. It requires a completely different relationship to knowledge, expertise, and human possibility. That's what The International Class at the...

22 Jun

Posted at 21:28h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming

Descartes famously said (in Latin): “I think, therefore, I am.” Such is the modernist bias of mainstream psychology.   The bias of Social Therapeutics and Performance Activism is a postmodern rewriting of Descartes:   "We perform, therefore, we become.”   This is the activity of a humanizing mass psychology and a new kind of social activism....