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12 Apr Improvising With and In

Posted at 17:00h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments

Since 2016, I’ve been editor of a series of books—Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development—published by Palgrave Macmillan. I’m proud of the nine books I helped to get written and published. Every one of them has made important contributions within and across education, psychology, youth development and theatre/performance studies,...

07 Feb More Dilemmas! More Letters!

Posted at 15:57h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist 0 Comments

Greetings All, As I hope you know, I gathered many of the letters and responses that appeared in this column into a book, A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. (My editor at Routledge urged that title, although I would have gone with something more provocative.) If you...

07 Mar Speak English Any Way You Want

Posted at 21:06h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Language, Look and Listen, Play, Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

I'm so delighted by a project initiated by friends in Taiwan that I decided to share it with readers. What follows is a guest post written by Pei and Joe Spirito. Enjoy! Speak English Any Way You Want By Pei and Joe Spirito For the last year or so, we’ve been teaching a...

11 Jan Good Reads

Posted at 20:39h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments

I’ve been series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development since 2016. It’s been a great opportunity to support the publication of books that link play and performance to community development and learning and development across the life span—and to get to know the creative researchers...

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...

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 ...

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...

10 Jul Playing through the Pandemic: Some Thoughts on Play, Happiness and Human Development

Posted at 19:38h in Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 7 Comments

"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 Social Therapeutics and Social Construction

Posted at 18:02h in Creativity, Human Development, Interviews, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 1 Comment

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is the host of Positivity Strategist, an interview series focusing on positive change methodologies, including social construction and appreciative inquiry. The current shows in this fabulous podcast, conceived in collaboration with the Taos Institute, feature a diverse group of scholars and practitioners responding to the invitation—"What are the...