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...
I'm pleased to share a guest blog post by Dan Friedman. *** Jesse Green, the chief theatre critic for the New York Times, recently published an article, “Should the American Theatre Take French Lessons?” about demonstrations across France, which have included protestors breaking into and occupying locked-up theaters across the country. They’re...
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...
Today's words are by the American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed away February 22, 2021 at the age of 101. I have so many favorites, this one among them. I Am Waiting I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for...
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...
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. Le Guin...
I loved being interviewed by the wonderful Aurelie Harp for her important project, Womanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsLSqsNQt8&feature=youtu.be...
As the moment in history we know of as the year 2020 comes to a close, the online, print, radio and TV media are filled with remembrances of those we’ve lost this year—from the famous whose names we knew before.2020, to those who died at the hands of police whose...
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...
My wishes for the new year...
