Loved this interview with Katy Bee and Jim-Bob, hosts of the Laugh Box (podcast of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor). I didn't expect to, but I talked about how I'm developing! ...
Today’s ponderings come from Winnie the Pooh, who I’m finding remarkably relevant to living/becoming/developing in this strange and scary 21st century. So philosophical! So Vygotskian! So post-postmodern! (Thank you, A.A.Milne for your creation.) “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that...
I don't read very much poetry, so I'm new to the work of Alberto Rios. So far I love the poems of his I've read—and these words I've been pondering. "I have been around other languages all my life, particularly Spanish, and have too often thought of the act of translation...
That's the title of a Women's Forum of New York panel organized and moderated by Women's Forum member and All Stars Project CEO Gabrielle Kurlander. I loved the diversity of our voices in response to Gabrielle's invitational questions. I hope you do too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvnKgHQYc0&feature=youtu.be ...
On November 9 I had the pleasure of being featured at the Normal? Brain Festival, originating in Folkestone UK (where it has taken place since 2015 in person over four days). This year the festival went virtual and runs through April 2020. The purpose is to bring science and art together...
Today's words to ponder are taken from Fred Newman's "Community as a Heart in a Havenless World." He gave this talk 30 years ago, but it just as well could have been today. "We have to learn how to build community by recognizing the extent to which, and precisely how, we...
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is the host of Positivity Strategist, an interview series focusing on positive change methodologies, including social construction and appreciative inquiry. The current shows in this fabulous podcast, conceived in collaboration with the Taos Institute, feature a diverse group of scholars and practitioners responding to the invitation—"What are the...
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...
Today's words are from the improv pioneer Viola Spolin from over fifty years ago “Motivation is limited and subjective, it cuts the players off from ongoing stage life, and it implies that you have a reason for everything.” “Words can easily become labels, dead and useless. The word or subject matter should...
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...
