Format
Online
Small-group format
5 to 10 participants
The program is designed for dialogue and practice, with a group size that supports active interaction among participants.
Content
Program Content
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01
Study the East Side Institute's core practices and their histories, inspirations, methodological innovations, and global community of practitioners.
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02
Build sites of collective inquiry by engaging playfully and philosophically, using participants' own lives and professional practices as building material.
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03
Experience the developmental power of play, performance, and improvisation through collective creativity.
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04
Practice the art of developmental learning through performing conversation and listening "activistically," while collectively exploring the emotional-social-intellectual-cultural challenges these practices raise.
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05
Practically-critically explore both new and prevailing understandings and practices of learning, development, emotions, and therapeutics.
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06
Explore the psychological and philosophical concepts that underlie and shape these practices, including identity, self, group, community, normalcy, mental illness, psychiatric diagnosis, truth, reality, inner life, and stages.
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07
Explore some of the most promising recent challenges to bio-medical and individualistic models in psychology, education, and leadership.
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08
Bring a social-therapeutic gaze to developments such as art-based research, performance activism, and post-activism.
