Culture

24 Dec

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

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...

02 Dec

Posted at 03:50h in Culture, I Like This, Words to Ponder

From Pablo Neruda's magnificent book of poems, Odes to Common Things, is this beauty (in English thanks to translator Ken Krabbenhoft). “Ode to the Spoon” Spoon, scoop formed by man’s most ancient hand, in your design of metal or wood we still see the shape of the first palm to which water imparted coolness and savage blood, the throb of bonfires and the hunt. Little spoon in an infant’s tiny hand, you raise to his mouth the earth’s most ancient kiss, silent...

08 Aug

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

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,...

18 Jul

Posted at 20:37h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Youth Development

Desire Wandan was a 16-year-old high school student in 2005. His school, Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn NY, is located in a mostly poor Caribbean immigrant neighborhood of Flatbush. Barbara Silverman was the school social worker at Erasmus. An experienced social therapist with a background that included working with teens,...

24 Jun

Posted at 02:01h in Community Organizing, Culture, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, What's New
Earlier this year, I and the East Side Institute became official members of Catalyst 2030, a global movement of people and organizations committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) by 2030. To date, 1300 organizations and 1700 individuals,representing 197 countries are members. It's a privilege for us to be part of Catalyst's Mental Health Collaboration whose members share a vision of a world where healthcare and community organizations incorporate mental wellbeing into practice models. I am especially pleased to be among the members profiled in CATALYST 2030: THE MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATION. Take a few moments to meet some amazing people in this attractive pamphlet.

18 Jan

Posted at 19:30h in Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics

That's the title of an invited address I gave in 2011 at the Third International Academic Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies in Hangzhou China, just three months after Fred Newman passed away. Today, my colleagues and I are in the early stages of designing some kind of video documentary of...

11 Jan

Posted at 20:39h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

I’ve been series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development since 2016. It’s been a great opportunity to support the publication of books that link play and performance to community development and learning and development across the life span—and to get to know the creative researchers...