Community Organizing

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...

27 Oct

Posted at 18:51h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

I'm happy to report that the expanded second edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play is just three weeks away from publication (11/17/16). To give you a preview, here's an excerpt from my Introduction to the second edition. In his thoughtful and very generous Foreword to the first edition...

27 Oct

Posted at 15:58h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Español/Spanish, Play, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Theatre

Dan Friedman (artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and associate dean of UX) and I were in Bogota Colombia last week at the invitation of former mayor Antanas Mockus and his organization Corpovisionarois. We were both keynote speakers at their International Conference on Citizenship Culture. This years theme was "Another...

10 Oct

Posted at 18:50h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

I had a wonderful time this past weekend at the 2016 North Carolina Honors Association Conference in Greensboro North Carolina. It was a privilege to be the keynote speaker at the opening banquet, especially since the conference theme was "Innovations in Pedagogy, Research, and Learning: Using Play, Performance and Improvisation."...

01 Sep

Posted at 14:09h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Publications, Theatre

  The Performing the World 2016 newsletters can't help but inspire you. Each newsletter features some of the creative performance activists presenting September 23-25 at this important gathering. Check back for more newsletters over the next two weeks.  ...

16 Jul

Posted at 20:52h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development

Performing the World (PTW) is a cross-disciplinary gathering of practitioners and scholars from every continent. Participants include performers and performance scholars, psychologists and social workers, physicians and nurses, educators and youth workers, community organizers and activists, and all others for whom performance, play and the creative/expressive arts offer a new...

19 Apr

Posted at 16:30h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, What's New

The All Stars Project is seeking diverse fellowship candidates with a relationship to, and an affinity for poor communities of color. What does it mean to be a Fulani Fellow? First and foremost, it means training and working alongside independent activist and grassroots leader Dr. Fulani and her high-performing and diverse...

24 Feb

Posted at 14:10h in Community Organizing, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School

Here's a unique and exciting opportunity—Apply to be a Fulani Fellow! This fellowship will be a rigorous introduction to and immersion in the on-the-ground ?practice, methodology, and approach to human development employed in the programs of the All Stars Project. The fellowship is designed as an opportunity for young professionals to train...