05 Jul Words to Ponder #33
At certain points in history, the paradigm that generated so much information comes to function as a hindrance to the use of that information. Fred Newman...
Philosophy
07 Jun Going Somewhere New Together
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...
15 May
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With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward. Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and...
04 Apr Critical Psychology at the Grassroots
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Continuing the theme of my last post on how critique and action and practice are and can be related, I share the introduction to the 2010 re-issue of Fred Newman's book Let's Develop! A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth. Newman's social therapy is one of the ways psychology is being...
23 Oct Will Humanity Seize the Day?
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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...
05 Aug Words to Ponder # 28
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in Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Training/Classes, Wittgenstein, Words to Ponder 3 Comments
Here is a slide show of Wittgenstein quotes I put together for the online course, Investigating Wittgenstein. Happy pondering! Investigating Wittgenstein ...
02 Aug The Search for Method in STEAM Education
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Returning to my office this morning after a ten-day writing holiday, I found a delightful package waiting for me—several complementary copies of the new book, The Search for Method in STEAM Education by Jaime (Jim) E. Martinez. I’m sure I would have gotten one copy since I’m a close colleague...
19 Jul Improvisation and the Unknowable
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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...
14 Jul Musings on Ways of Being Human (and Empathy)
It’s been awhile since I wrote a post. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say—far from it! I could have written about the wonderfully developmental-for-all June residency and graduation of the East Side Institute’s 13th International Class. Or what it was like to be a panelist at the New...
14 Jul Words to Ponder #27
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in Culture, Language, Philosophy, What's New, Wittgenstein, Words to Ponder 5 Comments
These days, we could all use a a little Wittgenstein. Like this gem. One is often bewitched by a word. For example, by the word "know." Ludwig Wittgenstein ...