Looking for Innovators...

[Edward Schreiber]

This is not what I am talking about, although this is, for sure, one  
response to the world situation. "The International Class" is a part  
of the Institute for Social Therapy, a Marxist Based Therapy.  I do  
not hold to a marxist perspective, and agree with Moreno's critique  
of marxism in Sociometry,
Experimental Method and the Science of Society.  His critique is the  
most accurate I know of about why it (marxism) does not work (although
Moreno called Marx one of the most significant pre-sociometry social  
scientists. Moreno also described Walt Whitman the same.

Ed


On Jan 23, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:

>
> is this the kind of thing people are talking about?
>
> Perhaps this is for you or for someone you know who wants
> to make a difference:
> The International Class:
> A Global Learning Community
>
> America's most exciting multicultural learning opportunity!
>
> Application deadline for 2008/9 class is July 31.
> The International Class brings together innovators - practitioners  
> and scholars from the US and around the world - who share a passion  
> for social change and for advancing performance-based, activity- 
> theoretic approaches to education, therapy, health care and  
> community development. Under the direction of
> Lois Holzman, the program is a 10-month course of study that  
> combines three short                   residencies in NYC with  
> online seminars and supervision in the Institute's cutting-edge  
> developmental methodology.
>
> A creative playground and dynamic, cross-cultural learning  
> environment, participants expand their therapeutic, performance and  
> improvisational skills, engage the philosophical and political  
> issues emerging from their research and practice, and build ties  
> with colleagues working in some of the world's most impoverished  
> communities.
>
> Who are participants? In its first four years, The International  
> Class has included 39 practitioners and scholars from Argentina,  
> the Balkans, Bangladesh, Canada, El Salvador, India, Kenya, Mexico,  
> Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa,  
> Sweden, Taiwan and cities across the US.
>
> What do participants say?  "For the last eight years, I have  
> studied welfare policy and have been an advocate for more humane  
> services in New York City. I applied to The International Class out  
> of a recognition that my understanding of poverty was limited - and  
> in some ways, provincial. My colleagues taught me about anti- 
> poverty programs around the world, which helped to broaden my  
> understanding. We also worked as a class to find new ways of  
> handling the financial struggles of individual class members  
> collectively - and took seriously what was needed - including money  
> - to make it possible for this diverse grouping of people to learn  
> together. As an American and an anti-poverty advocate, this  
> experience has been invaluable."
> -- Rebecca Widom
>
> "Being a member of The International Class has given me an broader  
> perspective on education and youth development, and I have come to  
> see my work in a global context. I am able to share the experiences  
> of my international classmates in Africa, India, Asia and South  
> America -- colleagues who have vastly less resources to work with,  
> face far greater obstacles, and, yet, have continued to be  
> innovative and to give. I've learned that we American educators can  
> no longer hide behind our assumptions of what's possible and what's  
> not. We must create performances of possibility."
> -- Joan Mahon-Powell 
>
> More information? For more information, including details on  
> program and fee schedules, scholarships, etc., please contact Lois  
> Holzman, Director, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term  
> Psychotherapy at lholzman at eastsideinstitute.org.
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