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International Class Tag

09 Nov

Posted at 00:44h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Vygotsky

November 8, 2011 Please check out the latest issue of the East Side Institute’s newsletter, Reports from the Field, for news on what our friends, colleagues and alumni are up to. You’ll hear from Annalie Pistorius and her new social therapy practice in Pretoria South Africa, the synergy between Elina Lampert-Shepel and...

31 May

Posted at 01:39h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Vygotsky

  May 31, 2011 May is one of my favorite months of the year, with light lasting into the evening hours, baby green tree buds turning into adult green leaves, and bursts of color (both flowers and people’s clothing) dotting the city streets. But this year I spent the middle of the...

21 Apr

Posted at 01:31h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming

  April 20, 2011 One evening while studying in England, a young Ugandan man named Peter Nsubuga watched a BBC documentary in the home he was staying. The program was “Children of Africa.” Peter was no stranger to the scenes he watched, having grown up in the very conditions shown on the...

03 Mar

Posted at 03:23h in Activity Theory, Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development

March 3, 2010 Please help me publicize a unique program—The International Class. I began this seven years ago and had no idea how much it would help me and all its participants grow, or how powerful the impact would be on community organizers and talented educators and peformers, or what a...

18 Jan

Posted at 18:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

January 18, 2011 If you need a pick-me-up today, something to inspire you, maybe this will do the trick: Ishita Sanyal is founder of the Calcutta-based grassroots mental health group, Turning Point, and an avid promoter and proselytizer on behalf of a social therapeutic approach to mental health. On a subcontinent where...

05 Jan

Posted at 21:47h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development

January 5, 2011 In December I was in Serbia for the annual meeting of  Zdravo da Ste, a community of a hundred or so Vygotskian-influenced educators, psychologists, social workers and artists who bring the joy of pointless performance to children and adults through workshops and ongoing programs. We spent the weekend...

22 Jan

Posted at 15:06h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics

January 22, 2010 In 2004 I initiated a program to support grassroots social entrepreneurs and activist-scholars whose work is too new or innovative or radical to get much support. The program is called  The International Class of the East Side Institute. As of today, over 50 people from five U.S. States...