Creativity

12 Feb Help Us Improve the People We Love

Posted at 02:34h in Creativity, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist, The Developmentalist 0 Comments

Dear Developmentalist, My friend Annette and I really enjoy talking together. When we meet up, both of us are eager to share about what is going on in our lives, but we also enjoy listening and learning from the other person. Whenever one of us shares something, the other is quick...

07 Feb More Dilemmas! More Letters!

Posted at 15:57h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist 0 Comments

Greetings All, As I hope you know, I gathered many of the letters and responses that appeared in this column into a book, A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. (My editor at Routledge urged that title, although I would have gone with something more provocative.) If you...

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...

16 Jul A New Way to Engage Dilemmas

Posted at 16:41h in Creativity, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

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02 Feb Imagination and Teardrops

Posted at 20:02h in Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I just learned about Gianni Rodari, a children's writer and Communist almost unknown in the US. I love this description from a New York Times article about him: To Rodari, imagination was always revolutionary, because he thought that, when readers picture different worlds, they stop taking existing conditions for granted and...

12 May In Conversation with Bayo Akolomafe

Posted at 03:13h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Language, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

During the second half of 2022, Bayo Akomolafe and I had a series of recorded Zoom conversations, with my Institute colleague Janet Wootten spurring us on, Bayo and I both wanted to make these conversations public. and you can find slightly edited transcripts of them here, titled A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in a...

10 May Rebel, Reject, Create

Posted at 00:31h in Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I was a guest on David Chislet's podcast—Rebel, Reject, Create— a few weeks ago. We went the "Create" route. Great conversationalist! We covered a lot of creative ground in 20 minutes. Have a listen. https://youtu.be/bKcG2a4g5oc...

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...