All Power To The Developing!

Ep.45 Homeless World Cup

The Homeless World Cup, founded in 2003, today brings unhoused people together in 70 countries to connect through the universal language of football, each year culminating in a World Cup tournament in a different city.  Founder and leader Mel Young, and formerly homeless player turned referee Sarah Frohwein talk with host Desire Wanden about why and how the Homeless World Cup was born, spread across the planet, and is bringing dignity and community to those without a home. “How on earth have we created a system that leaves millions of people living on the streets?” asks Young. “It’s crazy.  We don’t have to have it.  We sent men to the moon, we invented the internet, and we can fix it.  The aim of the Homeless World Cup is not to exist because there will be no homelessness.”
 www.homelessworldcup.org

Ep.44 Performing Peace in the Wake of War

In this episode, Peter Harris, one of Israel’s major innovators of community-based theatre, shares the experiences and insights of fifty years of creating performances with marginalized communities.  With the war raging in Gaza, he also talks about his work over the last decade in the Theatre Studies Department at the Western Galilee Academic College bringing Arab and Jewish students into “the aesthetic space where memory and imagination can come together,” and painful but developmental dialogue becomes possible through performance. 
 
https://www.facebook.com/peter.harris.94849410
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG8pl5_zhxyg_hTVzqVM4Kg

Ep.43 Revolutionizing Relationships: Murray Dabby & Carrie Sackett on Social Therapeutic Coaching

In this episode of All Power To The Developing, Host Desire Wandan sits down with Murray Dabby and Carrie Sackett, the authors of "Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work." Our conversation dives into the heart of their upcoming book, exploring the innovative approaches and transformative methods they use for group and couples coaching. Carrie Sackett, known for her expertise in coaching dynamics and group facilitation, elaborates on the practical applications of their methods in everyday scenarios. Murray Dabby, with his extensive experience in counseling and group therapy, shares his insights on how social therapeutic coaching can bridge the gap between traditional therapy and modern coaching techniques.
http://www.atlantasocialtherapy.com/murray-dabby.html
https://www.zpdcoaching.com/

Ep.42 Building Play Ensembles to Change the World

In 2020 with the pandemic ravishing Brazil and the country’s president doing nothing to combat it, a group of progressive Brazilian educators, led by Dr. Fernanda Liberali, of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and an East Side Institute Associate, found a way to move forward through play.  Inspired by the Global Play Brigade, which was (and is) bringing play and performance out around the world through Zoom, they organized the Brincadas, which have taken play into the schools and streets of São Paulo.  In this episode, a group of Brincadas share how play gave them a way to breathe during a suffocating moment and to go beyond traditional education to, “play with serious injustice. We’re not teaching, we’re building ensembles for social change and play is the means for building the ensemble."
This episode features the voices of Bianca Sgai, Franco Medeiros, Barbara ManjaDaniela B. Pioli Pellossi, Fernanda Liberali,Joyce Dias,Luciana Kool Modesto-SarraMarina Daniela Tiso,Thiago Lázaro,Sandra Borges Viviane Carrijo.
https://www.instagram.com/projeto.brincadas/
 
https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjetoBrincadas

Ep.41 Co-Creating Our World

On the 30th Anniversary of the Taos Institute, co-founder Kenneth Gergen shares the birth of social constructionism, its challenge to the assumptions of modernism, and the impact it has had both in and beyond the academy.  During this wide-ranging conversation with host Desire Wandan, Gergen discusses the practices, such as appreciative inquiry and narrative therapy, that social constructionism has helped to inspire, along with its decades-long interface and mutual influence with social therapeutics.  In this time of intense mistrust and partisanship, he looks to relationality as a way forward, pointing out, “We don’t have to agree on everything in order to create a wonderful world together.”
https://www.taosinstitute.net/

Ep.40 Performing Environmental Education

Francine Kilemann and Marcia Donadel are bringing their experience with site-specific, immersive theatre to elementary school education in Brazil.  Through Plato Cultural they lead students and teachers in creating fictional worlds in which the children become “SOS Agents” from the future tasked with helping to save the environment. The months-long performance is one in which nothing is taught in the traditional sense of the word.  Instead, the students learn through the experience of performing.  “Once we enter this fictional world,” says Kilemann, “we can ask ‘What if?’ and a range of possibilities emerge that we wouldn’t have if we had limited ourselves to the ‘facts.’”  Hosted by Desire Wandan.

Ep.39 Rhymes, Beats and Development

Nuyorican M.C., poet, and hip-hop educator Intikana shares his development as an artist, activist, and educator. He traces his journey through the economic poverty and cultural richness of the Bronx, the challenges of commercial co-optation, and bringing his revolutionary hip-hop educational techniques to young people in kindergartens, foster homes, and youth prisons.  In this wide-ranging conversation with host Desire Wandan, Initkana also discusses with deep insight the cultural and historical roots of hip-hop as an embodiment of “oppressed people trying to liberate themselves through art.”
https://www.instagram.com/intikana/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/user/IntikanaTV
https://www.star-revue.com/native-evez-the-music-of-intikhana-social-justice-rapper/

Ep.38 Therapy for and by the People

The ASSIM (Like This) Institute in Florianopolis, Brazil is dedicated to bringing therapy free or at affordable rates to those who need it the most—the poor, the oppressed and the marginalized.  Not only does ASSIM bring therapy to the people, it also provides poor people with free therapeutic training  that allows them to lead groups in their own communities.  ASSIM’s therapists and clients engage in collaborative and dialogic conversations that build on the client’s knowledge and works from the assumption that people have the resources and wisdom to transform their lives. 
 
ASSIM founder Bruno Lenzi shares his journey as a therapist and a community builder in this intimate conversation the East Side Institute’s Desire Wandan.
https://www.instagram.com/assimsc/?hl=en
https://www.assimsc.org.br/curso-de-certificacao-de-terapeutas/sobre-a-assim-sc/historia/

All Power To The Developing | JUNE 2023 UPDATE

In this time of political, ecological and emotional crisis, Developing Across Borders has emerged as a Zoom-enabled support network for activists and others around the world.  This month "All Power to the Developing" would like to draw your attention to "Border Crossers Build Their Culture."   This episode is even more relevant now than when it was first released on January 15, 2021.   It features East Side Institute director Lois Holzman  in conversation with Developing Across Borders participants Lea Cikos, Mariamalia Cob, Juan David Garzon, Steven Hart, and Morgane Masterman. Hailing from five different countries, they share how their weekly social therapeutic conversations help sustain their activism and develop their social and emotional skills. 
LINK TO EPISODE
https://eastsideinstitute.podbean.com/e/all-power-to-the-developing-ep2-feat-developing-across-borders/

Ep.37 American History, Black Heritage and Progressive Activism

Darryl Heller, lifelong progressive political activist, shares his journey from grassroots organizing in Boston and New York to becoming a labor historian, a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at  Indiana University, and director of the South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center.  “I don’t think we can realize our full humanity if we're not developing,” he tells host Desire Wandan.  “People’s" power is possible only if we keep developing.”  
https://iusbpreface.net/2022/02/23/its-my-dream-job-darryl-heller-on-the-civil-rights-heritage-center/