A Psychology of Becoming

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

26 Nov

Posted at 23:50h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development

Today I share an email from a dear friend, Peter Nsubuga from Kampala Uganda. Peter is a graduate of the East Side Institute’s International Class 2009 whose organization, Hope for Youth-Uganda, was in its infancy then. Peter started this NGO in Central Uganda’s Mukono District to support vulnerable children with food, clothing and...

21 Nov

Posted at 03:46h in Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming

Twenty-five years have passed since my friend, mentor and intellectual partner Fred Newman made what I think is one of the most significant statements about community I’ve ever heard. It was a cold November evening in 1990 and Fred was speaking to a hundred or so New Yorkers gathered in...

10 Oct

Posted at 16:11h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, Youth Development

I'm looking for people interested in exploring the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming.   Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method: An Advanced Online Course with Lois Holzman and Faculty February — May 2016 Social therapeutics is a “practice of method” for human and community development. What Lois Holzman and Fred...

27 Sep

Posted at 16:00h in Community Organizing, Events, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, What's New

    Can We Perform Our Way to Power? The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which it spreads becomes more conflicted....

04 Jul

Posted at 15:38h in Look and Listen, Politics, Psychology of Becoming

  It's been about a month since Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt's comments on "girls" in science, and the furor hasn't stopped yet. But along with his sexism is dangerous scientism—“Science is about nothing but getting at the truth and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in...