Community Organizing

18 Feb

Posted at 11:44h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Performing the World, Play, Psychology of Becoming

In this guest blog, two wonderful performance activists share their amazing work with you. Performing the world and we stay closer to one another By Cheng Zeng and Marian Rich Cheng: The Chinese lunar new year of the Mouse should have been a time for family reunions. Unfortunately, a devastating coronavirus has spread...

19 Jun

Posted at 03:01h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Training/Classes

Back: Mayari Perez Arroyo , Mike Pickering, Bashiru Lasisi, Guillermo Terisotto, Francisco Estefogo, Laura Sonnino, Martha McCoy, Eva Brenner. Front:  Andre Liberali, Mieke Lippstreu, Oscar Lozoya, Drazen Horvatic, Annie Rose Stathes.  This past Saturday (June 15, 2019) the happy group pictured above graduated as the 15th International Class of the East Side Institute (joining 130...

05 Jul

Posted at 01:34h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

I'm super excited about the upcoming (in September) Performing the World conference and so privileged to be chairing it again! I'm sharing the first of many newsletters because these people deserve to be known!   Newsletter #1 July 3, 2018 Old Friends and New The 10th Performing the World 2018 (PTW) will take place in...

15 May

Posted at 19:35h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes

With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward. Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and...

19 Apr

Posted at 20:59h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar: Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research  This past week I participated in a symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference held in NYC, along with two distinguished co-presenters, Kris Guitierrez and Anna Stetsenko. A diverse group of younger scholars served as interviewers, with many in the audience...

01 Mar

Posted at 18:00h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming

On March 3 I'll be in Puebla Mexico as a speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Consciousness and Spirituality, sponsored by the Transpersonal Instituto  Universitario of Puebla. To this organization, transpersonal postulates a paradigm shift and expands existing models related to human behavior. This year's theme is "The Consciousness of...