Human Development

18 Jan Revisiting “Fred Newman and the Practice of Method”

Posted at 19:30h in Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 2 Comments

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...

09 Jan People, We’ve Got to Grow.

Posted at 01:37h in Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming 1 Comment

The world that we live in both shapes us and is shaped by us. It’s always been violent and peaceful, loving and hateful (as are we). These past few years, though, the violence and hatred feel more frightening, more painful; the devastation and despair more intense and soul-wrenching, the newest...

07 May Want Good News?

Posted at 01:31h in Human Development, Interviews, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 0 Comments

Almost 20 years ago, the late Fred Newman and I wrote an essay for an academic journal in critical psychology. We titled it All Power to the Developing! We meant to provoke academics with such a politically-rooted slogan-sounding title. (And we did.) This past January, we at the East Side Institute resurrected this...

11 Mar Relishing the Creativity that Surprises Itself

Posted at 17:15h in Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I just received a review of my book The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world that I am sharing. Phillippe Vendenbroeck really completes (in a Vygotskian sense) my thoughts and written words. And the site he posted it...

07 Feb Dreaming Big

Posted at 23:27h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Look and Listen, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

On January 1, 2021 the East Side Institute brought in the new year with the launch of our podcast, All Power to the Developing. This is a project I'm very excited about. It's a way to reach a wide audience with amazing stories from developmentalists across the world. So much...

25 Dec “Yes, and…” to “Yes, and…”

Posted at 23:48h in Culture, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

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

Posted at 21:02h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

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 ...

03 Dec Knowledge as Play?

Posted at 01:18h in Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I want to tempt you to read this dialogic chapter written by me and Tomas Pernecky in his edited book, Postdisciplinary Knowledge. I thank Tomas for the fun we had and for the opportunity to contribute to the first book to articulate postdisciplinarity in philosophical, theoretical and methodological terms. Here's how...

13 Nov The Normal? Brain

Posted at 04:08h in Creativity, Human Development, Look and Listen, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

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...

28 Aug Love in the Time of Corona

Posted at 16:58h in Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

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...