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04 Jan Being an Independent

Posted at 03:27h in Human Development, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

January 3, 2013 Next month I’ll be attending the National Conference of Independents being held in NYC on February 16th. It’s a gathering of hundreds of independent voters from across the US sponsored by IndependentVoting.org, a national strategy, communications and organizing center working to develop a movement of independent voters for...

17 Oct Transforming Classrooms into Theatrical Stages

Posted at 14:54h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments

October 17, 2012 “Schools for growth—ones where developmental learning occurs—are much more like theatrical stages than classrooms." I wrote those words, in 1997, as the opening sentence of my book, Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models. Fifteen years later, I believe it even more strongly. As school becomes more...

26 Sep Who Wants to Perform (with me and 499 Others)?

Posted at 01:27h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, Youth Development 0 Comments

September 24, 2012 Today I’m going to do some more promotion for Performing the World 2012 (PTW 2012)—because I’m so excited about it! The opening reception on Thursday evening October 4 will be a community welcome to New York—featuring food prepared by dozens of New York City friends; greetings by myself and...

20 Jun Bratke, Diamond, Rojzman and Schechner at Performing the World 2012

Posted at 01:23h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 2 Comments

June 19, 2012 I’ve been immersed in PTW—that’s Performing the World, an international festival/conference/happening I launched eleven years ago. This October, we’re hosting the 7th PTW, “Can Performance Change Save the World?” (recasting the 2010 PTW theme, “Can Performance Change the World?” because of the increasing intensity of the challenges facing...

07 Apr Deciding What’s Normal at TEDMED

Posted at 16:45h in Creativity, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

April 7, 2012 Deciding What's Normal. What a great topic for me to lobby folks around at the TEDMED conference this coming week in Washington, D.C. The topic and I are 1 of 50 "Great Challenges" in health and medicine that will be represented at the conference, along with the usual...

16 Nov Can Kids Run a Town?

Posted at 22:31h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 0 Comments

November 16, 2011 I love my responsibility as chair of Global Outreach for the All Star's Project's UX because of the opportunities I get to bring people together who wouldn't ordinarily meet. Like the immigrant young people from Rome who run their own community, the inner-city young people and adults in New York...

06 Oct An Appreciative Review

Posted at 12:35h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development 1 Comment

October 6, 2011 I was delighted to come across this Amazon reader review of my book Vygotsky at Work and Play. The author is David R. Cross, Ph.D. Thanks, David! A Transformative Book Reflecting on a Transformative Life, July 2, 2011 Every now and then you get lucky, and find the book that is...

02 Oct Can Performance Save the World?

Posted at 18:01h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, Youth Development 4 Comments

October 2, 2011 I'm thrilled to announce the next Performing the World (PTW) conference/festival, "Can Performance Change Save the World?" to take place in New York City October 4-7, 2012. Proposals are due March 1, 2012. The theme of the last PTW, held in 2010 and attended by over 500 people from dozens...

21 Jul What is UX and What Does It Do?

Posted at 15:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 1 Comment

July 20, 2011 I've written before about the All Stars Project's unique and fabulous UX, a free, open-to-all, university-style development center, but it's worth mentioning over and over. This new project creates its curriculum from suggestions for courses from those who want to learn and ideas from those who want to...

11 Jul Fred Newman—Appreciation, Not Description

Posted at 15:03h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development 1 Comment

July 11, 2011 Hundreds of messages are filling my inbox—outpourings of condolences, love and respect on the passing of Fred Newman. From all corners of the world those who studied with Fred, read one of our books, heard him speak in person or on video, or “met” him through others are...