Events

25 Jun Hope Springs…from Activity

Posted at 16:49h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 3 Comments

“Hope springs eternal” is an English proverb that originated in an 18thcentury poem by Alexander Pope. It doesn’t, though. We have to create hope through what we do. This is the message I and many others are taking out to people we meet—from talks we give (“Creating Communities of Hope”) to...

01 May What Does It Take To Be Culturally Relevant?

Posted at 14:55h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Language, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

I was one of four invited speakers at the Applied Linguistics Winter Conference last week, the theme of which was Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Preparing my talk took me back to my academic roots as a researcher of early language development. It also took me back to my organizer-activist roots as...

07 Mar Performing Community + Seeming Ridiculous = Revolutionary Love

Posted at 22:22h in Culture, Events, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 3 Comments

My last post referenced the Consciencia Congress I was about to fly to Puebla Mexico for and this post gives a flavor of it. Seven speakers all in one (very long) day—addressing the topic of love, mostly from the perspective of the individual and how love is good for you....

01 Mar Love and Consciousness (and Activism)

Posted at 18:00h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

On March 3 I'll be in Puebla Mexico as a speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Consciousness and Spirituality, sponsored by the Transpersonal Instituto Universitario of Puebla. To this organization, transpersonal postulates a paradigm shift and expands existing models related to human behavior. This year's theme is "The Consciousness of...

03 Nov Mental Health News Radio

Posted at 10:18h in Events, Human Development, Interviews, Look and Listen, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Thanks to Kristin Walker for interviewing me on her important podcast series, Mental Health News Radio ...

23 Oct Will Humanity Seize the Day?

Posted at 15:41h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

The tenth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 21 through Sunday, September 23, 2018. These are very uncertain days. So much is, or seems to be, falling apart – nations and government apparatus, norms of diplomacy and civil discourse, civil society, the glaciers...

19 Jul Improvisation and the Unknowable

Posted at 16:07h in Creativity, Events, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 2 Comments

It’s a delight when things you’re involved in converge and feed one another. I’ve been working on another chapter of The Overweight Brain and got momentarily stuck (like two days’ worth of stuck) in the middle of writing a section on “the unknown” and “the unknowable.” I’ve also been preparing for...

17 Jun Talking Madness with Robert Whitaker

Posted at 17:29h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

On Friday evening, June 9 I had the privilege and pleasure of creating conversation with prize-winning journalist and prominent psychiatry critic Robert Whitaker. Our topic was “Mad in America: Drugs, Diagnosis and Development” (an event sponsored by the East Side Institute). Aided by invitingly probing questions from moderator Janet Wootten...

01 May Talking Back to the Psychiatric Norm

Posted at 12:21h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Hats off to PJ Moynihan (writer and producer), Oryx Cohen (producer) and Gayle Berg (executive producer) of “Healing Voices” for their documentary film exploring the experience labeled, “psychosis.” And hats off to the hundreds of community organizations worldwide who have, since its release in April 2016, sponsored more than 500...

22 Apr In Conversation with Robert Whitaker: Diagnosis, Drugs and Development

Posted at 15:09h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

Mad in America: A Conversation on Diagnosis, Drugs and Development with Lois Holzman and Robert Whitaker Friday, June 9, 7:00-8:30 p.m. NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan St., Rm 216 (betw. W 3 St. & Washington Sq South) Registration: $35; Student/Retired: $25 (At the door: $40; $30) So many things divide Americans today....