15 Jan If we created gender, we can create something beyond gender
I loved being interviewed by the wonderful Aurelie Harp for her important project, Womanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsLSqsNQt8&feature=youtu.be...
Culture
25 Dec “Yes, and…” to “Yes, and…”
Improvisation is becoming more and more known, understood, practiced and valued around the world, and so I feel OK assuming that if you’re reading this, you’ve heard of “Yes, and…” It’s the golden rule of improv (or impro). It’s a rule that’s applied to guide improvisors in how to relate...
05 Dec Free to Perform, Perform to Be Free
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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 ...
28 Aug Love in the Time of Corona
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One day last week, while having some lunch of leftover mussels and pasta, I was looking through the Weekend Arts section of the NY Times (hard copy!) and saw a recommendation for a two hour show streaming over the weekend called “Love in the Time of Corona.” “That’s my title!” I...
07 Aug Words to Ponder #37
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...
10 Jul Playing through the Pandemic: Some Thoughts on Play, Happiness and Human Development
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"it's taken being locked down and closed in for us to be opened up" The East Side Institute (Institute) of which I am the director is launching a new podcast in August called “All Power to the Developing.” I’d like to take its launch as an opportunity to share with you...
02 Jul Age and Me-ness
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Fred Newman disliked being called wise. He thought wisdom implied knowing and, he believed knowing was, at this point in history, a dead end at best, and most often destructive. (He and I did write a book entitled, The End of Knowing, after all!) And yet, I have to admit...
22 Jan Words to Ponder #36
These words, written twenty years ago by renowned social constructionist Ken Gergen, are surely worth pondering today. "In important degree, identity politics is a descendent of Western, individualist ideology. It is not the single individual who commands our interest in this case; rather individual identity is conflated with group identity. Individual...
29 Dec The End of Knowing as Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity)
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When I have an academic presentation to make or an article to write on social therapeutic methodology, it's usually an opportunity to play around with conceptions I've spoken and written about many times before. I like the challenge of creating new frames ("What do I want to say to this...
26 Dec Brains and Politics
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On Sunday, December 8th, I had the pleasure of speaking with 75 people from 17 states in the US. They called in to the monthly Politics for the People conversation hosted by Cathy Stewart, VP for National Development at indepependentvoting.org. It was a privilege to be Cathy's guest, to discuss...