Art and Social Action - Chalk with Sidewalk Sam on Saturday!

-
We are also asking the leadership of any and all organizations to encourage their members to participate. 
Sidewalk Sam has dedicated a lifetime to creative expression in the public forum. 
Let's follow his example and create a public visual expression of our individual voices.
All 100% of us.

Thanks,

Nathan Felde
AIB instructor

Semper Fiber
Solving the world's problems is child's play.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

40th anniversary of the Lesley University Expressive Therapy Program - save the date!

-
Image
Photo:  Norma Canner, 1970s SAVE THE DATE…. 40th Anniversary of the Expressive Therapies Program at Lesley University Conference and Celebration Saturday, September 20, 2014 Please stay tuned for further details as  an official save the date and invitation from the Alumni Office is forthcoming!   We hope to see you there! Expressive Therapies celebrates 40 years of making powerful inroads in the world In 1974, The Institute for the Arts and Human Development, housing both Expressive Therapies and Creative Arts in Learning, was founded at Lesley University. The Expressive Therapies program established in that year was one of the original graduate programs in the United States to train professionals in the emerging arts therapy field and the first to integrate all of the arts. ...
Read more

Day 65 – A writing hangover

-
Image
Day 65 – I’ve been thinking a lot about vulnerability the last few days.   Vulnerability, truth, and fiction – or in this case, poetry.   As I keep saying (although I’m not sure I’ve been saying it here), making “art” is usually a process of encountering the “other” – of allowing oneself to meet and be met, even with the other within.   And of multiplicity which is always a part of life.   I couldn’t really write yesterday.   The poem, A palette of grief , from day 64 – was such an encounter for me and left me with a writing hangover.   The great thing was that I remembered that I wanted/needed there to be a way in which I “showed” and not just “told” about what it is I am trying to say.   I want to talk about the power of art to help us know ourselves as clinicians, and to meet our clients – but I also don’t want to bog down the piece of writing with my own story.     I showed my poem to a friend, and she reminded me that there are s...
Read more

Day 57 – A 1998 paper on postmodernism and psychology

-
Image
Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash Day 57 – I wrote this paper back in 1998 for a class on the history of psychology.  Reading back on it I'm impressed with how much these ideas influenced my belief in knowledge as "situated" and with my understanding of the role of language in establishing power.   HISTORICAL INFLUENCES OF POSTMODERNISM ON PSYCHOLOGY   “While epistemology may seem to reside in a heady conceptual realm far removed from the clinician’s doorstep, it is of fundamental concern to the practice of therapy.   One cannot operate without epistemological assumptions, although it is possible to be unaware of them.   Our theories are founded on epistemology - whether theories of psychotherapy, or personal theories of life manifest in the choices we make on a daily basis.   When one considers, then, that epistemology informs all of our beliefs about where problems come from, how they are maintained, and what facilitates their resolution, the ...
Read more