Community Organizing

24 May Words to Ponder #51

Posted at 20:06h in Community Organizing, Culture, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Words to Ponder 4 Comments

Today's words to ponder come from David Graeber, American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. He died in 2020. “At a moment when the capitalists’ collective refusal to even consider rethinking any of their basic assumption about the world might well mean not just the death of capitalism, but...

14 Apr Getting, Losing, Giving and Giving and Giiving

Posted at 18:40h in Community Organizing, Events, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Showing Up is a giving in itself. Looking forward to seeing you! ...

13 Mar Words to Ponder #48

Posted at 17:46h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Words to Ponder 1 Comment

These Words to Ponder are those of performance activist Hector Aristizabal, taken from a wonderful interview with him at Creative Art Space. To be creative is to participate consciously in the ongoing creation of the world. Creativity is not primarily about producing art. It is about entering into relationship with life...

26 Aug Excavating the Myth of Empathy

Posted at 21:55h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Critical psychiatry, Culture, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 2 Comments

I’ve been pondering the popularity of empathy for quite a while now, and I’ve been meaning to write something telling you why I find it so distasteful. As a way to ease into that create space, I share a bit of conversation “A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in...

15 Aug Rhizomic Revolution

Posted at 03:05h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Carrie Lobman, the East Side Institute’s Leader of Education and Research and my close colleague and friend, gave the keynote address at the Cultivating Ensembles annual gathering last week. I love the title of her talk—“Boxes, Dualisms and Rhizomes”—and I loved the talk even more! Carrie urged that we go...

28 Aug David Brooks says “Grow up, America!” Social therapists tell us how.

Posted at 16:23h in Community Organizing, Culture, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 2 Comments

Just had to share this wonderful piece by social therapeutic practitioners Jennifer Bullock and Marian Rich. The World Needs Social Therapy! Thank you David Brooks for your recent thoughtful commentary titled Hey America, Grow Up. We appreciate your invitation to build a new culture that supports maturity, community, empowerment and well-being....

03 Apr Words to Ponder # 44

Posted at 02:34h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming, Words to Ponder 1 Comment

"If the human race is still here in 100 years, it will be because of lots of people doing lots of little things. Bigger things can get co-opted or bought off by the powers that be. But if there are many, many little things going on it will be too...

07 Mar Speak English Any Way You Want

Posted at 21:06h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Language, Look and Listen, Play, Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

I'm so delighted by a project initiated by friends in Taiwan that I decided to share it with readers. What follows is a guest post written by Pei and Joe Spirito. Enjoy! Speak English Any Way You Want By Pei and Joe Spirito For the last year or so, we’ve been teaching a...

24 Dec Bottoms, Empathy and Globalization

Posted at 02:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

It’s become a tradition for faculty member Chris Helm to host the East Side Institute’s twice yearly Community Meeting and Fundraiser. Chris always gets everyone thinking with her educational and provocatively inspiring remarks that weave together current events, history, politics, science, and the Institute’s mission. This past November’s gathering was no...

08 Aug Everyone has Something to Teach. Everyone has Something to Learn.

Posted at 17:13h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes 0 Comments

Let's Learn! is is a year-old educational project that doesn't just pay lip service to the idea of life-long learning. Or life--long teaching also, for that matter. It practices it. A project of Lloyd International Honors College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in collaboration with the East Side Institute,...