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17 Jul

Posted at 20:21h in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Youth Development

July 17, 2010 Participate in discovering/creating responses to this question by attending the sixth Performing the World conference: Performing the World 2010, September 30-October 3, 2010, New York City (hosted by All Stars Project, Inc and East Side Institute for Group and short Term Psychotherapy) “Can Performance Change the World?” Performing artists, community organizers, theatre workers,...

27 May

Posted at 02:53h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development

May, 2010 I don't know Michael Thomas, Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business in Japan, but I intend to. I want to thank him for the favorable and thoughtful review of Vygotsky at Work and Play that he wrote for the British Journal of Educational Technology.  He says so...

17 Apr

Posted at 18:14h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

April 17, 2010 Anyone who knows me and/or visits this site knows I'm an avid supporter of the All Stars Project and have been since it began some decades ago. The All Stars' program are exquisite applications of the social therapeutic approach to human development because they are uniquely suited to...

23 Feb

Posted at 23:22h in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Health Care, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming

February 23, 2010 [caption id="attachment_403" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Fred Newman and Patch Adams"][/caption] This past Saturday I had the privilege of hosting Patch Adams  for the day between two university presentations he was giving that morning and evening. The meeting was a long time coming; Patch ("the clown who is a doctor") and I...

15 Jan

Posted at 21:43h in Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development

March 18,2010 Here's the link to a video of the scened from the Work/Play described below January, 15, 2010 I was delighted to see The Work/Play - the current production of Youth OnStage! (the youth theatre of the All Stars Project) - featured in a column by Ellen Galinsky in today's Huffington Post....

08 Jan

Posted at 01:26h in Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming

January 7, 2010 I came across an interview with Ann Weimer Baumgardner – author of Pretend You're Normal: But Only When Absolutely Necessary, and described as a molecular geneticist, creative thinker, author and humorist on the IdeaConnection.com website. I hadn't heard of Baumgardner (have you?) but I liked what I read. Here's...