21 Dec Blue Will Not Be Fenced
My wishes for the new year...
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Psychology of Becoming
05 Dec Free to Perform, Perform to Be Free
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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?
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
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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...
30 Oct We Are Stronger Together
Jennifer Bullock, a colleague, friend, and fellow performance activist shared all of who she is in this beautiful essay,We Move. We are Stronger Together. We Dance, a response to a police shooting in Philadelphia, know as "the city of brotherly love." ...
30 Sep Development is Our Task (Embrace Paradox)
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in Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 1 Comment
For many years now I’ve been sharing with people all over the world what I call “Vygotsky the developmentalist.” What I mean by this is that the overarching concern of the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky was human development, despite him being primarily known as an educational psychologist. The phrase is...
28 Aug Love in the Time of Corona
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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...
26 Aug Three Hearts of the World
A decade ago, when we discovered Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?", we found a kindred spirit for our community’s work in schooling (Schools for Growth) and afterschool development (allstars.org). We were buoyed by his enormous popularity in passionately addressing the necessity of transforming schools. Over the...
07 Aug Words to Ponder #37
Today's words to ponder are taken from Fred Newman's "Community as a Heart in a Havenless World." He gave this talk 30 years ago, but it just as well could have been today. "We have to learn how to build community by recognizing the extent to which, and precisely how, we...
10 Jul Playing through the Pandemic: Some Thoughts on Play, Happiness and Human Development
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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...