All Power To The Developing!

Ep.7 Relating to All as Givers and Builders

Makiko “Mako” Kishi — educator, professor, international aid worker and performance activist -- has worked in Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Cambodia, Vietnam, Australia, Central America and her native Japan with refugee communities and special-needs students to build stages for development. Mako shares her passion for creating learning environments in which everyone -- even the most “needy” — are related to as capable of giving, building and growing. Hosted by Lois Holzman.
https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/research/opinion/Makiko_Kishi.html
https://eastsideinstitute.org/about/our-people/institute-associates/institute-associatemakiko-kishi/

Ep.6 Bringing Creative Play into the College Classroom

There’s a growing movement afoot in higher education, shaking the canons of traditional pedagogy. Meet play revolutionaries Carrie Lobman, associate professor, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers Univ., and ESI’s Leader of Education and Research, and Tony Perone, asst. training professor of educational psychology at the Univ. of Washington, Tacoma, who share their pioneering efforts to bring developmental play into higher education. Hosted by Janet Wootten.

Ep.5 Bringing Play and Performance to Communities of Color

Long-time community organizers and performance activists, Allen Cox, Thecla Farrell and Sheryl Williams, share how performing with New York City’s Castillo Theatre — on-stage and off — impacted their activism and development. Hosted by Jessie Fields, MD.
 

Ep.4 A Turning Point for India’s Mentally Ill

Ishita Sanyal, the founder of Turning Point, in Kolkata, India discusses her work with people shunned and outcast because of their mental illness, work which demonstrates that psychosis need not mean the end of development.  Hosted by Dr. Lois Holzman.
www.turningpoint.org.in
https://www.facebook.com/isanyal

Ep.3 London All Stars Youth Find Their Power

Chantelle Burley and Brian Mullin, co-founders of the All Stars London, share their work with young people from London's poorest boroughs, encouraging them to perform their way to new possibilities they never imagined possible.  Hosted by Dr. Carrie Lobman.
http://www.allstarslondon.org/

Ep.2 Border Crossers Build Their Culture

Five participants with Developing Across Borders—Lea Cikos, Mariamalia Cob, Juan David Garzon, Steven Hart, and Morgane Masterman—hailing from five different countries, share how their Zoom-enabled weekly social therapeutic conversations help sustain their activism and develop their social and emotional skills. Hosted by Dr. Lois Holzman.
https://eastsideinstitute.org/developing-across-borders/

Ep.1 ”I Invite You On A Therapeutic Journey...”

Murray Dabby, founder of the Atlanta Center for Social Therapy and co-founder of both The Couples College and Curtain Up, Anxiety Down, discusses his forty years of bringing play and improvisation to emotional growth and development.  Hosted by Janet Wootten.
http://www.atlantasocialtherapy.com
www.curtainupanxietydown.com