Human Development

19 Jun Thirteen New Emerging Leaders

Posted at 03:01h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Training/Classes 0 Comments

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...

15 Jun The End of Knowing???

Posted at 19:13h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I'm super excited to be having a webinar conversation with one of my heroes—Sugata Mitra of The Hole in the Wall and TED Prize fame. At a time when the world’s knowledge is but a few clicks away, knowing is becoming obsolete. What, then, becomes of education? What are the possibilities...

22 Mar Japanese Colleagues: Givers in a World Culture of Getting

Posted at 01:45h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

I spent last week with 16 Japanese professors and graduate students who traveled to NYC for an immersion in social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, and a first-hand experience with how these "tools-and-results" help people grow by performing our sociality and building community. We had a wonderful time together. By...

01 Mar Disrupting Dementia with Joy

Posted at 21:26h in Creativity, Culture, Health Care, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Here’s a recent article from The Washington Post that reports on an important and exciting trend in Alzheimer’s care: Changing the "Tragedy Narrative:" Why a Growing Camp Is Promoting a More Joyous Approach to Alzheimer’s. The article shines a spotlight on some of the many, many activists, advocates, caregivers and people living with dementia who are...

19 Dec Stop Worrying About What You Don’t Know

Posted at 03:00h in Creativity, Human Development, Overweight Brain, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 1 Comment

Here's me on The Overweight Brain ...

20 Nov Giving Away Process

Posted at 02:34h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

This past Sunday, November 18, the East Side Institute held a Community Meeting and Fundraiser. We’ve been hosting these twice a year for the last ten years. We get to share developments, advances and challenges in the organizing work we do at the grassroots and in academia and invite people...

02 Nov The Creative Way to Share What You Think You Know

Posted at 01:25h in Culture, Human Development, Overweight Brain, Philosophy 0 Comments

I've traveled to several cities recently, speaking with students and faculty at different universities and introducing performance and improv to them through workshops. It 's always provocative and eye-opening to challenge the knowing paradigm at a university (for obvious reasons). Inviting professional knowers and knowers-to-be to perform philosophy as a new...

05 Jul Old Friends and New

Posted at 01:34h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 0 Comments

I'm super excited about the upcoming (in September) Performing the World conference and so privileged to be chairing it again! I'm sharing the first of many newsletters because these people deserve to be known! Newsletter #1 July 3, 2018 Old Friends and New The 10th Performing the World 2018 (PTW) will take place in...

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...

07 Jun Going Somewhere New Together

Posted at 17:27h in Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 2 Comments

The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...