A Psychology of Becoming
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A Psychology of Becoming

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

06 Apr

Posted at 20:22h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes

The International Class is the signature program of the East Side Institute. I'm so proud to have taught and coached over 100 activists, educators, counselors, theatre artists and scholars over the years, and played a part in their development as leaders in a new kind of social activism. Read what one...

06 Apr

Posted at 14:34h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Look and Listen, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

I just rewatched this wonderfully intimate and informative video of a plenary session at Performing the World 2012. It begins with some talented improvisors setting the scene, so to speak, for the conversation among five performance activists—Lin-Ching Hsia from Taiwan, Christine LaCerva from NYC, Charles Rozman from France, Lenora Fulani...

02 Apr

Posted at 01:01h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

My last post, “Police and Teens, Connecting” (March 29, 2017 ) pointed to an article that appeared in The New York Times that same day. The article featured a unique kind of “connecting” of police and teens—Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, a program of the All Stars Project in partnership with the...

09 Feb

Posted at 22:59h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes

Hello to my blog followers and fans of The Overweight Brain. If you live in the NYC metro area I’d love for you to join me IN PERSON for a Revolutionary Conversation on psychology’s glorification of the individual—taking place the evenings of Monday March 1 and 8 at the East Side...

05 Jan

Posted at 02:20h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Theatre, What's New

I'm proud to be series editor! This series showcases research, theory and practice linking play and performance to learning and development across the life span. Bringing the concerns of play theorists and performance practitioners together with those of educational and developmental psychologists and counsellors coincides with the increasing professional and public...

17 Dec

Posted at 22:07h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

My Facebook feed this morning made me happy. Here’s why— That’s Marian Rich—long-time friend, colleague and member of the current  International Class of the East Side Institute—holding a copy of the new Second Edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play. I’m excited for Marian and others to read it! Here’s...

17 Dec

Posted at 03:24h in Culture, Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming

  Renowned scholar John Shotter passed away on December 8, 2016 after a long illness. John loved to talk and to listen, to create conversation about everything, most especially about conversation itself. His contributions to social constructionism, Open Dialogue and a radically humanistic psychology are acknowledged and studied the world over. I...

07 Dec

Posted at 20:09h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

[caption id="attachment_3254" align="aligncenter" width="4032"] National Dong-Hwa University[/caption] A few weeks after traveling to Bogotá Colombia to participate in the International Conference on Citizenship Culture, Dan Friedman (Institute faculty, artistic director of the All Stars Project's Castillo Theatre and associate dean of All Stars'  UX) and I were on our way to...