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  • Mogens Larsen Stenderup: Development in Groups

    We travel to Denmark to speak with Mogens Stenderup, a visual artist and professor of social work. What’s the value of development in groups and how can we leverage them for our growth? That’s the name of the game. Join us!

    Topics of Interest
    • Getting to know Mogens. [00:50]
    • Where does Mogens teach? [03:50]
    • Students becoming social workers. [06:31]
    • Values and professional practice? [07:13]
    • Transparency? [08:13]
    • Introducing students to groups. [11:15]
    • Biggest sources of inspiration. [13:44]
    • What is this conversation? [15:55]
    • Making with all that is. [17:01]
    • What is the inherent value in being playful? [18:02]
    • Integrity, courage, and group therapy. [25:41]
    • What is the role of an individual in a group? [35:25]
    • What message would you give in developing a group? [36:57]
    • Take-home for listeners. [43:54]
    • What would you call this way of life? [45:59]
    • Who are you becoming? [49:16]
    • Where can people find you? [51:27]
    • People and Organizations Mentioned
      • Mogens Larsen Stenderup
      • Danish Artist Association
      • Fred Newman
      • A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self
      • 53 min
      • Tony Perone: Co-Creating Life-Span, Imaginative, Mindful Play

        Tony Perone is playful. Like, really playful. He brought play into academia. No easy task! His invitation is for us to use play and theatre to create environments for learning, development, and community. Wowwie! We also explore mindfulness meditation, identity, and “new-ness.” Join us!

        Topics of Interest
        • What’s your hope for this conversation? [1:48]
        • What do you do? [4:45]
        • What’s your story? [6:20]
        • Why was theatre and improv important to you? [8:19]
        • Connection between communication and community building. [12:22]
        • Experiences with acting classes. [16:18]
        • Connections between acting and language learning? [17:17]
        • How do participants respond to your approach? [21:19]
        • Identity and curiosity. [30:18]
        • What is Imaginative Play? [42:03]
        • Mindfulness and contemplative practices from a community lens. [1:03:17]
        • What is your call to action? What or who motivates you to keep performing this way? [1:08:18]
        • What is alienation? [1:12:25]
        • State vs. trait? [1:17:07]
        • Meditation. [1:22:23]
        • How can people do performative things in their daily lives? [1:26:41]
        • Social performances. [1:36:34]
        • What’s important about “new-ness”? [1:39:39]
        • Discipline and the process of development? [1:44:52]
        • Identity and essence. [1:50:23]
        • Who are you becoming? [2:06:00]
        • What are you up to these days? [2:11:01]
        • People and Organizations Mentioned
          • Tony Perone:
          • Facebook: Tony Perone
          • Twitter: @TonyPerone
          • Inst: @Doctor_Avo
          • Arts Bridging Communities:
          • Facebook: @ArtsBridgingCommunities
          • Instagram: @ArtsBridgingCommunities
          • Performance Activism Community
          • East Side Institute
          • Arts for Social Change
          • Therapeutic/Humanitarian Clowning
          • Gesundheit Institute
          • Play and Performance with Neurodiverse Communities
          • University of Washington Tacoma: Lifespan Imaginative Play Course
          • 2 hr 18 min
          • Andres Marquez-Lara: Entrepreneurship and Improv

            Design thinking, improv theater, and systems thinking walk into a bar. Just kidding. It’s Andres Marquez-Lara. And he’s got a pretty cool story to tell about entrepreneurship as process of personal and social development. We explore his history and the various serendipities that led to his current becoming. We ask big questions, like what is the connection between psychodrama, performance activism, building a business, and helping organizations come up with creative solutions to complex problems.

            Topics of Interest
            • What are some of your roles and endeavors? [3:14]
            • What is your connection to Latin America? [05:32]
            • How did you get to where you are now? [7:20]
            • East Side Institute and performance? [11:56]
            • How can people embrace the idea of performance? [13:12]
            • Examples of work you do in Promethean Community? [15:47]
            • What is the intention behind your activities? [19:42]
            • What are some examples of clients you’ve worked with? [22:14]
            • What do you appreciate about yourself? [24:13]
            • Did you find the work or did the work find you? [25:43]
            • What is something you wish you knew when younger? [27:31]
            • How do design thinking, improve theatre, and systems thinking connect? [29:41]
            • Design Thinking [29:50]
            • Improv Theatre [30:53]
            • Systems Thinking [31:28]
            • Are you involved in any broader systems change endeavors, communities, or organizations? [33:27]
            • How many people are involved in Promethean Community? [37:24]
            • Where do you see Promethean Community in five years? [39:08]
            • Who are you becoming? [40:42]
            • What message do you have for young entrepreneurs? [42:53]
            • Where can people find you? [43:50]
            • People and Organizations Mentioned
              • Andres Marquez-Lara
              • Twitter: https://twitter.com/amarquezlara
              • Promethean Community
              • Website: https://prometheancommunity.com
              • Twitter: https://twitter.com/prometheancomm
              • East Side Institute
              • Lois Holzman
              • Psychodrama
              • Founded by Jacob L. Moreno
              • Also see Dr. Adam Blatner
              • PlayBack Theatre
              • Developing Across Borders
              • Bill Eggers from Deloitte
              • FSG, Reimagining Social Change
              • Zaid Hassan, Social Labs Revolution
              • PlayPerformLearnGrow
              • Cathy Salit, CEO of Performance of a Lifetime
              • Performance of a Lifetime
              • Angel Zambrano
              • Dr. Erin Fletcher
              • 46 min
              • Raquell Holmes PhD: Science as a Human Activity

                Imagine a scientist. What do you see? Probably a male. Gruff. Socially recluse? Reading, writing. Maybe lecturing at people. God forbid they ever laugh, right? Why though? Raquell Holmes, PhD, cell biologist, founder of improvscience, offers a radical alternative: the practice of a collaborative science through performance and play. A world where science contributes to social wellbeing. What is science? We chat about that stuff too, a bit (don’t worry). Prepare your mind and soul, folks, this one’s a joyride.

                Topics of Interest
                • Best hopes for the conversation? [2:42]
                • #CAKE? [4:45]
                • Social Therapy [10:25]
                • Science? [12:40]
                • Scientism. [13:36]
                • Why did you choose science as a career? [19:55]
                • Raquell’s career reflections [22:22]
                • High performance computation and computer sciences! And biology? [25:33]
                • Bioinformatics [28:49]
                • Epigenetics? [32:34]
                • Epistemological violence [39:26]
                • Fred Newman (co-founder of Social Therapeutics) [41:53]
                • Whence did science, play, improvisation, and performance meet? [47:51]
                • improvscience – a story [53:57]
                • Scientists playing together? [1:01:30]
                • Impact of improv and performance on scientists! [1:05:40]
                • Vision for the ideal form of science [1:07:32]
                • Science and emotion? [1:12:56]
                • Who are you becoming? [01:26:33]
                • Art’s conflicted love of science? [1:29:11]
                • People and Organizations Mentioned
                  • Raquell Holmes
                  • improvscience
                  • Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education and Research
                  • Fred Newman PhD
                  • All Stars, LLC
                  • 1 hr 35 min
                  • Pilot

                    Every story has a beginning. This is ours. Chris Reyman (Producer) and Art Assoiants (Host) explore the creation of the Let’s Develop Podcast! together, unearthing our motivations, hopes, and desired impact. While Chris will mostly focus on the back-end work (connecting with interviewees, masterfully mastering the edits, etc.), Art’s voice will continue will you on the LDP journey.

                    Topics of Interest
                    • Why are you interested in creating this podcast? [1:47]
                    • What kind of impact do you hope this podcast will make? [2:41]
                    • To Art: What is your inspiration for wanting to develop this podcast? [3:29]
                    • To Art: What are you most excited about interviewing these people around the world? [4:44]
                    • Who are you becoming? [5:55]
                    • People and Organizations Mentioned
                      • Chris Reyman
                      • The East Side Institute for Group and Short-Term Psychotherapy
                      • The East Side Institute Associates
                      • 10 min

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